Mar
9
Investigating Infant Deaths
March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
IAFN is hosting a webinar on investigating infant deaths April 6th at 2pm ET. This will be the 1st webinar of the 2010 IAFN Webinar Series, and it’s being presented by Bobbi Jo O’Neal, BSN, RN, F-ABMDI, Deputy Coroner for Charleston County, South Carolina.
Feb
18
New CEU Webcasts from IAFN
February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It looks like IAFN just made 12 sessions available from the ATL Annual Scientific Assembly as webcasts. The audio plus PowerPoint can be reviewed for CEUs, and if you attended the Assembly, it’s free. Not to worry–if you couldn’t make it, it’s still available to you for $19.99 if you’re an IAFN member ($29.99, non-members). [...]
Feb
14
20 Free CMEs/CEUs
February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In my continuing quest to provide better access to free CME/CEUs for FHO readers, I decided to trawl through Medscape tonight and round up 20 offerings that can be completed quickly and easily. A couple caveats, though: 1.) not all of them are for RNs–physician and midlevel only CEs are marked accordingly; 2.) these things [...]
Jan
28
Free Online Forensic Nursing CEUs
January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I had an email yesterday about finding CEUs for forensic nurses, which made me think that it’s probably a good time to remind people about the free CEUs available online from IAFN. If you haven’t yet checked them, I encourage you to do so, because, did I mention they’re free (unless you’re not a member, [...]
Jan
12
Management of Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The United States VA/DoD have developed new guidelines for managing concussion and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Whether as combat injuries or resulting from assaults or MVAs, this is an issue we’re seeing pretty regularly. Medscape is offering a free CE/CME on the new guidelines; maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for physicians, 0.50 ANCC [...]
Nov
23
Forensic Review of Knee Injuries
November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Just a quick reminder: you still have a couple more days before the Sexual Assault Quick Reference giveaway. Head over to the post and leave your comment to be eligible!
Sometimes it’s a relief to just get back to basic clinical assessment skills. Anytime I see an offering that reinforces exam techniques, I’m all over it. [...]
Sep
29
Bullying's Impact on Girls
September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Medscape has a new CE offering on the impact of bullying on girls. Seems that a new study indicates that girls have far more long-term psychological sequelae from bullying than boys, a finding particularly interesting to me as the mother of a girl-child. If you’d like to get better acquainted with the study (or at [...]
Sep
16
Forensic Issues for Nurses
September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Medscape has a forensic-focused CE offering currently available: Forensic Issues for Nurses. It’s your standard article-posttest format and is free, with site registration. 1 CEU will be awarded upon completion.
Sep
14
New CEU Offerings
September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
RN.org has several new CE offerings available that might be of interest to readers. It’s a flat $19.95 for unlimited CEs (in a 12 month period), and they offer some of the state mandated courses, as well as a general selection. That’s actually a pretty fantastic value for the money–something to consider springing for if [...]
Sep
9
Managing STDs: Complex Cases
September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Contemporary Forums has a CE offering for both physicians and nurses on managing complex STD cases. It’s 1.5 CEs for $15, downloadable as either a PDF or MP3 (audio). You can catch a preview here if you’re not sure you want to spend the money.
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