7th Annual Advances in Neurology: Diagnosis and Practical Management of Patients with Nervous System Disorders is organized by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and will be held on Nov 21, 2020. Accreditation: The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai designates thislive activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity / AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.75 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.75 hours) Course Overview: The 7th Annual Advances in Neurology is a full-day virtual CME event that will provide clinicians with an update on diagnostic processes, cutting-edge technologies, and innovative management strategies in these 8 areas of neurology: headache, movement disorders and deep brain stimulation, epilepsy, neurological manifestations of COVID-19, stroke, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disease, physician-patient communication. Through didactic lecture, case presentations, and interactive discussions with expert clinicians, attendees will be better enabled to diagnose and manage patients living with neurologic disorders in 2020 and beyond. Patient simulators will interact with faculty to provide an enhanced learning experience for participants. Objectives: • Discuss existing, new, and potential options for migraine treatment and prevention including oral medications, devices, injectables, and interventional therapies. • Explain the updated guidelines and criteria for diagnosing and categorizing multiple sclerosis and describe a comprehensive management plan. • Identify appropriate treatment approaches for acute ischemic stroke and recognize cases that are appropriate for referral to comprehensive stroke centers offering acute endovascular interventions. • Discuss the neurological manifestations of COVID-19. • Explain the value of electrodiagnostic testing (nerve conduction studies, electromyography, and neuromuscular ultrasound) in securing a neuromuscular disease diagnosis. • Describe surgical options for the treatment of epilepsy and distinguish an ideal candidate. • Identify a movement disorder patient who is a candidate for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. • Explain how autonomic function testing improves recognition and diagnosis of chronic pain syndromes, and more broadly, neurological illnesses. • Outline the elements of a communication plan for delivering bad news to a patient with neurological disease.

Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Description: Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness won an AJN Book of the Year award for 2013. For this online course, we have selected 12 chapters from the comprehensive text and reproduced them (172 pages out of the 764 pages in the entire book). The book is not incorporated. The objective of the online CME program is to assist you to receive the skills to efficiently and effectively plan for or respond to disasters or public health emergencies. Pilot Nurse Comments • Easy to read: included a lot of information. With all, that’s working on this book gives a clear picture of what needs to occur when disasters occur and why and when it needs to happen and resources needed. • This textbook was appropriate given the recent disasters – hurricanes, mass shootings, fires. Excellent! I very extremely enjoyed this course ... This book was so timely. It is loaded with pertinent information. Appropriately detailed. Well thought out. The demand for these plans to be in place, and to be educated ahead of time is so important. It has caused me to want to understand what our city and county have in place. This course was interesting and easy to follow. • This was outside my norm. Very pertinent information. Very important for anyone working in public health or in hospitals that have to manage personnel in a disaster. • I am a volunteer for the VA Medical Reserve Corps and we must take some FEMA courses prior to volunteering. Those courses appear very dry especially encompassing the roles of different leaders in a disaster. I liked the way this text was written. It flowed well and held interest. Then again I am extremely interested in disaster preparedness. What a timely choice of topic! Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Fast Facts for the Long-Term Care Nurse is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Expiration Date: 12/31/2020 Conference Description: Fast Facts for the Long-Term Care Nurse: What Nursing Home and Assisted Living Nurses Need to Know in a Nutshell embodies a holistic approach to nursing that recognizes the importance of quality of life in addition to the quality of care. • Covers essential competencies for long-term care nursing practice • Presented in a concise easy-to-access format • Addresses management and leadership issues relevant to the supervision of unlicensed personnel • Content on regulatory standards, site visits, legal risks, and documentation essentials • Guides nurses in using evidence-based knowledge in long-term care settings. Pilot Study Nurse Comments • The textbook was very reader friendly ... a great course for someone entering the nursing home work force. • It covers a lot of information that is relative to today’s long-term care RN. This book would be a great resource for case managers. • Textbook is excellent! It’s well written and can be used in all disciplines of SNF nursing. • The class is a good, quick overview of long term care. It is good background knowledge for long-term care. • Good overview of course topic. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Health Literacy in Nursing: Providing Person-Centered Care is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Expiration Date: 12/31/2020 Conference Description: Promoting the health literacy of patients across all settings is an essential component of prevention, wellness, and effective medical treatment. Health Literacy in Nursing: Providing Person-Centered Care provides an overview of health literacy, discusses the magnitude of the issue, and explains implications of low health literacy. It details strategies to enhance effective communication between patients and nurses. Contents: • Part I - Health Literacy: The Magnitude of the Problem • Part II - Oral Communication • Part III - Written Health Communication • Part IV - Health Literacy and Unique Populations Pilot Study Nurse Comments • Health lit should be a required course for every nurse. SO important! I loved this book and I will reread it for a reference! • After completing I feel like I have actually learned something. Above all this course gave me more insight into patient teaching.  • The course is very important. I think the patient often gets lost and doesn’t understand what is presented medically because it is not always clear. I think this course should be required. The medical community forgets to present material in a clear concise way. • This was excellent and information that was new to me. It made me think about the importance of health literacy. I have been in nursing for so long I had forgotten how medical terms can be so new and confusing to others. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual, 5th Edition is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Expiration Date: 12/31/2020 Conference Description: This program is pre-approved by the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) to provide continuing education credit to Certified Case Managers (CCMs). Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual puts information on more than 240 diseases and disorders at your fingertips. Features: • The only book of its kind to include information on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). • A-Z organization for ease of finding topics. • Helps you prioritize interventions by highlighting the primary nursing diagnosis. • Makes locating pertinent test results quick and easy with Diagnostic Highlights tables. • Outlines the drugs most commonly used for a disorder in Pharmacologic Highlights tables. • Provides patient teaching checklists. • Includes separate headings for psychosocial issues. • By nurses, for nurses. This course consists of three sections, each worth 24 contact hours (total of 72 contact hours for all three). Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Acute & Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts, 5th Edition is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Conference Description: Acute & Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts, Fifth Edition, presents the newest diagnostic and treatment guidelines to assist clinicians to implement evidence-based quality care for patients with wounds. It is intended for nurses who would like to start or improve their careers in wound care and for those who are working towards certification or recertification in this specialized area of nursing. Pilot Study Nurse Comments: • Exceptional overview and micro knowledge of wound care. Deep study of wound care. Great resource to supplement practical care. • The textbook is an excellent frame of quotation. I shall use it frequently. • This was a totally overwhelming subject. Very exhausting with the terminology but exhilarating to have been exposed to the skin and its functions, deficits and healing processes.  • Great “Mile high” overview of wound care. Indispensable resource for training, policy and procedure developing. This is not a basic, practice resource for floor staff. •  The text is a true, college level textbook. Very detailed and current. Not for the faint-of-heart or a quick 30 units to meet license renewal. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, Seventh Edition is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Conference Description : Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, Seventh Edition is the definitive resource for holistic nursing for both students and professionals. It includes seven new chapters on creative expressions in healing, herbs and dietary supplements, holistic leadership, holistic nursing education, self-care and self-development, and advanced holistic nursing practice. Holistic16 consists of three sections, each worth 22 contact hours, or a total of 66 contact hours when you've finished all three. Comments from Pilot Study Nurses: • “This was out of my wheelhouse – very different information – difficult to grasp at times.” • “Fabulous information and I loved it. I have worked in both worlds as a nurse and as a homeopath and this book enabled me to make more connections about the conventional and the complementary.” • “Very well written ... I recommend this as a great overall resource.” • “The course is really important today. Many people are opting for what is more natural as treatments. It is important for nurses to know this topic.” • “Parts two and three more interesting than part one (theory).” • “The course expanded my knowledge and introduced me to a subject that is becoming popular. Helps me understand and provide better care to my patients.” • “Quiz was not easy but I learned a lot.” Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Complexity Leadership: Nursing's Role in Health-Care Delivery, 2nd is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Conference Description : As hospitals and health-care organizations strive to meet the standards of the Magnet Hospital Recognition Program and the challenges of the Institute of Medicine’s nursing workforce initiative, today’s leaders must be able to respond in ways that embrace rapid change. Complexity Leadership: Nursing’s Role in Health-Care Delivery introduces you to complexity science and the complexity model of contemporary leadership. It focuses on how to lead in complex systems and chaos, how complex systems function, and how to navigate them successfully. Comments from Pilot Study Nurses: • “I think the activities at the end of the chapters were eye opening and some of them made me look at myself and my interactions with staff.” • “The textbook is good but definitely not for everyone. I think a desire to learn about complexity leadership is required to read the text.” • "I enjoyed the book and was surprised at how it interlinks with my current job." • “Great course overall ... Good leadership takes on many different aspects. This focuses a leader into a director to follow!” • “I LOVED this! This book challenged and inspired me. It helped me to crystallize some rather nebulous goals in leadership and gave me permission to nurture myself as well. I have been a bedside ICU nurse for 37 years and love it. I have been asked many times why I did not go into management. This book helped me to see how important my role as an informal teacher can be.”Comments from Pilot Study Nurses: • “I think the activities at the end of the chapters were eye opening and some of them made me look at myself and my interactions with staff.” • “The textbook is good but definitely not for everyone. I think a desire to learn about complexity leadership is required to read the text.” • "I enjoyed the book and was surprised at how it interlinks with my current job." • “Great course overall ... Good leadership takes on many different aspects. This focuses a leader into a director to follow!” • “I LOVED this! This book challenged and inspired me. It helped me to crystallize some rather nebulous goals in leadership and gave me permission to nurture myself as well. I have been a bedside ICU nurse for 37 years and love it. I have been asked many times why I did not go into management. This book helped me to see how important my role as an informal teacher can be.” Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Fast Facts for the Cardiac Surgery Nurse: Caring for Cardiac Surgery Patients in a Nutshell, 2nd ed is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Conference Description: Fast Facts for the Cardiac Surgery Nurse: Caring for Cardiac Surgery Patients, in a Nutshell, is a little book (208 pages) that provides speedy access to information cardiac surgery nurses use daily. It covers all aspects of care from preoperative to recovery, with an emphasis on prevention and management of postoperative complications. It provides new information on risk factors for stroke, thoracic aortic aneurysms, and congenital heart disease, as well as updates on new surgical techniques and devices. New illustrations help to clarify crucial information and tables are reorganized to emphasize commonly used medications. The resource will be especially valuable to new graduates and nurses who are considering a switch to cardiac care. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Legal Boundaries of California Nursing Practice, 9th Edition is organized by Anderson Continuing Education. Conference Description: Legal Boundaries of California Nursing Practice explains in easy-to-understand language: Functions and procedures LVNs may perform. • Tasks that nurse’s aides and unlicensed personnel may perform • RN scope of practice, including standardized procedures and updated BRN scope of practice position statements • Scope of practice of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives • Nurse-to-patient staffing ratios • License disciplinary actions, including 20 new case summaries of nurses disciplined by the BRN and BVNPT • Malpractice liability, including liability of supervisors, short staffing and floating • The Joint Commission prevention of medical errors requirements. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.