Nursing Courses

End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation

145 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

45 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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Symptom Management in Palliative Care

15 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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Supporting Families and Caregivers

15 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.

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Transitions in Care from Survivorship to Hospice

12 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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• 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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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

59 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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

What is Palliative Care?

261 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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Nursing Informatics Training and Education

77 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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• 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)

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
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Knowledge and Skills for Dementia Care: the SSLD Approach

72 ratings at Coursera

This course aims to inform learners about dementia and dementia care from an SSLD perspective, including, community care, in-home support, and long-term care.

• Coursera
• 29 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care

83 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you’ll learn how serious and life-threatening illnesses often affect emotional and spiritual well-being. Illnesses can increase stress as patients and families learn to live with a “new normal” that may often focus on illness. You’ll lear…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Pain Management: Easing Pain in Palliative Care

161 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you will be able to develop a systems view for assessing and managing pain in the palliative care setting. By the end of the course, you will be able to: 1) Describe the pain problem in the palliative care setting; 2) Assess a person’s pa…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Easing Physical Symptoms: It's Not Just Hospice Anymore

79 ratings at Coursera

Palliative care provides important support for people living with serious or life-limiting illnesses and their family caregivers. In this course, you will learn to use symptom assessment tools to better understand which symptoms are present and which are…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)