Nursing Courses

End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation

138 reviews

Explore dying and palliative care practice around the world and evaluate new trends and ideas surrounding end of life care issues.

• FutureLearn
• 4 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Essentials of Palliative Care

41 ratings at Coursera

Palliative care can help ease suffering and improve wellbeing in people living with serious illnesses such as cancer. Palliative Care Always is an online, case-based course for health care practitioners who work in cancer care.

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Symptom Management in Palliative Care

14 ratings at Coursera

This course should be taken after the Essentials of Palliative Care course and continues building your primary palliative care skills – communication, psychosocial support and goals of care. You will learn how to screen, assess, and manage both physical…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Supporting Families and Caregivers

13 ratings at Coursera

This course takes a deep dive into the challenges families and friends of a patient with serious illness face and how you can care for and support them as a provider, social worker or family friend. Supporting Families and Caregivers especially focuses…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Transitions in Care from Survivorship to Hospice

11 ratings at Coursera

This course should be taken after the Symptom Management course and continues building your primary palliative care skills – communication, psychosocial support, goals of care and symptom management. You will explore transitions in care such as survivors…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Palliative Care Always Capstone Course

10 ratings at Coursera

The Palliative Care Always Capstone course is designed to let you test your knowledge about palliative and help others understand the value of palliative care, while showing your creative side. In this course, you will impact community awareness about pa…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Designing for Sustainment: Keeping Improvement Work on Track (Patient Safety IV)

75 ratings at Coursera

Keeping patient safety and quality improvement projects on track, on time, and on budget is critical to ensuring their success. In this course, students will be introduced and given the opportunity to apply a series of tools to guide and manage patient s…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)

67 ratings at Coursera

How will you know if your patient safety and quality project is meeting its objectives? Peter Drucker once said “What gets measured, gets managed.” In this course, students will learn why measurement is critical to quality improvement work. Equally impor…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Implementing a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety V)

60 ratings at Coursera

Now that you’ve carefully planned your patient safety and quality improvement project, the real work can begin. This course will introduce students to the unique challenges encountered when implementing, maintaining, and expanding a patient safety and qu…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Taking Safety and Quality Improvement Work to the Next Level (Patient Safety VII)

54 ratings at Coursera

In this culminating course in the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Specialization, you will apply the skills you have acquired across the previous six courses to address a realistic patient safety issue confronting Mercy Grace, a 500-bed urban hosp…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

What is Palliative Care?

251 ratings at Coursera

Palliative care provides invaluable help for patients living with serious or life-limiting illness and their family caregivers. Palliative care should be part of healthcare services to improve quality of life, the ability to tolerate and benefit from tr…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Nursing Informatics Training and Education

70 ratings at Coursera

In this fourth of our five courses, I will go deeper into the training and education leadership skills that are helpful for nursing informatics leaders. I will also guide you through the process of preparing a course document or syllabus for the nursing…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Neuromuscular Monitoring Course

This CME activity is designed for all anesthesia care providers to learn more about residual neuromuscular blockade and neuromuscular monitoring.

• edX
• 1-2 hours a week, 1 week long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby

522 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you will learn some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy in the days and weeks after they have been born.

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6 days from now (15th Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Nursing Informatics Leadership Theory and Practice

41 ratings at Coursera

“By the end of this Course, you will be able to…” • Evaluate effective leadership styles for leadership in nursing informatics in clinical or academic contexts to improve leadership success. • Discover core values that support effective nursing informat…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)