This course provides an overview of ectopic pregnancies, with a focus on diagnosis and treatment options.

Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) can be crucial to stabilizing patients in the emergency department (ED). The goal of this course is to provide physicians and nursing professionals with the knowledge to meet new standards from The Joint Commission regarding fetal monitoring procedures and stabilization in the ED. 

This is a brief review of how nurses and providers should address maternal hemorrhage in the ED. All emergency departments must be prepared for obstetric hemorrhage, which can cause severe issues or death. 

Hypertensive disorders are the most common medical complication affecting pregnancy and are the second leading cause of maternal deaths in the U.S. In the ED, healthcare professionals must know about hypertensive disorders in the perinatal patient population to provide safe, evidence-based care. This course will provide information about the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, its effects on the mother and fetus, and recommended management.

Shoulder dystocia is an obstetric emergency. To prepare for this rare occurrence, your healthcare team should be knowledgeable about the risk factors, potential complications, and the management of shoulder dystocia. In addition, emergency professionals should develop strategies to help their healthcare team prepare for this rare event.

This course presents providers with a review of umbilical cord prolapse, its causes, presentation, diagnosis, and management.

This course reviews the FHR characteristics of Category III patterns, their etiologies, and clinical significance.

This course provides OB and ED providers with a review of hypovolemia in pregnancy with emphasis on early recognition, prompt resuscitation, and identification and control of the causative etiology.

This course provides an overview of sepsis in pregnancy, with a focus on screening tools to facilitate early recognition and timely treatment.

This course provides a review of umbilical cord prolapse, its causes, presentation, diagnosis, and management.

This course reviews common risk factors and clinical features of uterine rupture to enhance early recognition and timely delivery, emphasizing diagnosis and treatment.

This is a brief review of how nurses and providers should address maternal hemorrhage in the ED. All emergency departments must be prepared for obstetric hemorrhage, which can cause severe issues or death. 

Maternal obesity has significant implications for both the parent and fetus. This course discusses the risks associated with maternal obesity, updated care guidelines regarding BMI, and maternal, fetal, and neonatal complications associated with increased morbidity and mortality risk. You will also learn about how biases and perceptions related to BMI can affect the quality of care that patients receive and patient outcomes. Strategies to mitigate these risks through interprofessional care involving providers, nurses, and RDNs will also be reviewed.

Almost 95% of all maternal mortalities happen in low and lower middle-income countries (World Health Organization, 2023). However, the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among all developed countries. Approximately 700 patients die each year in the U.S. due to pregnancy complications and nearly 85% of those deaths are preventable (Hill et al., 2022). Furthermore, the AMA and CDC state that Black and AIAN patients are 3 to 5 times more likely to die from maternal complications than White patients (AMA, 2023). Indigenous, immigrant, refugee, and low-income populations are also at significantly greater risk of poorer maternal outcomes. However, in the past few years, global and national advocacy initiatives have set their philanthropic and financial radar on improving maternal outcomes in these vulnerable communities.

This course discusses best practices in operative vaginal delivery techniques—forceps-assisted delivery and vacuum-assisted delivery (OAVD), as well as episiotomy.

The course is case-based, so you will have an opportunity to apply the principles covered to particular patient scenarios. The cases are branched, with different outcomes based on different choices.

Use of OAVD techniques vary from organization to organization. You may, for example, work in a hospital in which forceps techniques are no longer taught to residents. Each section has been organized so that you can move through it quickly or delve into it more deeply, depending on its relevance to your clinical practice.
 

The ED is a pressurized environment created by time constraints, cognitive stressors, limited patient relationships, minimal clinical data, and a vast range of patient complaints and acuity, which all prime biases. However, despite these findings, often bias education is not currently embedded into emergency medicine training. Biases have been linked to altered clinical decision‐making, misdiagnoses, medical errors, and potentially life-threatening and lethal outcomes (Zeidan et al., 2018).

In this course, you will learn about biases in the ED from a pressurized environmental lens throughout the course. You will first be introduced to biases, then learn more about different contributing factors to the causes, dig deeper into the types of biases with relevant examples and their overarching negative systemic impact on the ED. Lastly, you’ll learn about strategies to debias and “release that pressure valve” to help improve diagnostic and treatment outcomes for patients. 

Neonatal emergencies are frightening and challenging to almost all acute care providers. This course will focus on the neonate and provide a succinct review of resuscitation issues pertinent to clinical practice and board preparation/review.

This course provides labor and delivery nurses with practical guidance on preparing for, supporting, and managing vacuum-assisted and forceps-assisted births. It covers indications, contraindications, teamwork, documentation, postpartum care, and recognition of maternal and neonatal complications.

Pain is often underestimated and undertreated in the pediatric population due to many factors. As a result, children’s health outcomes are directly impacted without proper recognition and pain management, and quality of life is reduced. Physicians and nursing professionals must learn to assess and treat pediatric pain appropriately while caring for hospitalized children. This course describes the past and future status of pain management in children, pharmacological and non-pharmacological management options, and the complexities of managing pain in special populations.

Concussion is a form of mild traumatic brain injury that is common in children and adolescents. Despite increased awareness about the injury, concussion remains under-reported and under-diagnosed. Nurses and Radiology Technicians must be aware of the identification, diagnosis, and management of concussions in pediatric patients. 

Pediatric ambulatory care consists of well-child checks, preventive care, and the treatment and management of acute and chronic health conditions. Nurses provide holistic care to the pediatric patient by synthesizing their nursing assessments with parent/caregiver concerns. Nurses collaborate with the healthcare team to identify and address common pediatric health problems encountered in the ambulatory care setting.

Perioperative professionals must have a fundamental understanding of the anatomical, physiological, psychological, and emotional differences of children compared to adults and how these differences impact the care needs of pediatric patients in the perioperative period.

Worldwide, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) accounts for high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality. Early recognition is key to good outcomes. Recognizing PPH, its stages, and how to measure blood loss is essential since treatment is based on the stages of hemorrhage. Additionally, it is important to understand nursing interventions, treatments for PPH, and teamwork and communication needs to improve perinatal outcomes.

This course aims to enhance the knowledge of acute care nurses about postpartum hemorrhage, including its causes, risk factors, and medical and surgical management.

This course is intended to utilize scenario-based learning to review and reinforce training for caregivers in all obstetric practice areas on identifying and managing atypical presentations of preeclampsia.