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Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB04
Nurses, as the most trusted profession, have a large role to play in addressing vaccine misinformation among other nurses as well as the public. This webinar will describe common areas of vaccine misinformation and hesitancy among both nurses and the public and discuss how to address misinformation based on evidence. Course expires 7 July 2024.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : SYFY04
The course offers suggestions on how the new nurse can enhance his/her career and professional role development through nursing education, career enrichment, and progression.
Price: US $17.40 | NCPD Hours: 1.20 | Course Number : JNS054
The COVID-19 pandemic has opened a dialogue regarding advocacy and policy changes that need to occur at the federal, state, and local levels to ensure provisions for the financial and healthcare well-being of nurses. Often nurses struggle as the “breadwinners” in their families caring for multiple generations, thus leading them to live paycheck to paycheck. The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to conduct a review of current and proposed policy changes.
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Price: US $200.00 | NCPD Hours: 4.70 | Course Number : ACPprogram
Nurses need advocacy skills beyond political advocacy. This certificate program aims to develop nurses’ knowledge and skills in advocating for themselves as well as at the organizational, community, regional, and global levels. The future of nursing is informed by the lived experiences of nurses, educational preparation, and personal connection to social and professional issues that compel action. Globally, there are more than 29 million nurses in a career that is cited as the most trusted profession, positioning nurses to leverage their social capital to engage in advocacy.
This course is also available in Spanish and is free for Sigma members.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 1.55 | Course Number : FYF09
Our shared COVID-19 experience is shining a light on competencies, preparedness, social determinants of health, and leadership. And not the success story we need. Whether you are in a formal leadership position or not, there are many actions you can take to lead to system-level change.
This course is part of the Find Your Forward Program.
Price: US $14.50 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : CONV23A
Price: US $13.05 | NCPD Hours: 0.90 | Course Number : INRC21C
There are increasing pressures for nursing and midwifery research to play catch-up with other disciplines and pay more attention to meaningful research impact (society, economy, professional issues, practice, and policy) and less on journal publications. This presentation explores why we need to do things differently and how. This course will retire after 21 July 2024.
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Price: US $32.00 | NCPD Hours: 3.90 | Course Number : SYFY05
In hectic and stressful environments, such as hospitals, the incidence of violence takes its toll on nursing staff. When situations become volatile, when tempers rise, and situations become unbearable, nurses can use strategies such as training in how to hold critical conversations, to prevent disruptive and harmful behaviors. This course will provide nurses with the knowledge and tools to appropriately react to a crucial conversation when under stress. Using adult learning principles, nurses will be educated on creating a safe environment to hold a crucial conversation so that true dialogue and communication can occur in the high stressed, high paced environments.
Price: US $47.50 | NCPD Hours: 3.80 | Course Number : LEAD05
This lesson will illustrate how leaders must advocate for patient care by influencing stakeholders to achieve organizational excellence and engage in behaviors for the transformation of patient care delivery. Development of business plans, business strategies, and management and evaluation of projects will be discussed.
Price: US $18.12 | NCPD Hours: 1.25 | Course Number : CONV23C
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : JNS036
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to determine nurses' challenges, extent of involvement, and the impact of involvement in politics and policy making.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB13
Poor oral health has been linked with negative child health outcomes, including early childhood dental caries (ECC), a leading Healthy People 2030 public health concern. Health and racial disparities put disadvantaged children at a higher risk for developing ECC. The nursing profession has the opportunity to play a leadership role to promote oral health equity through appropriate health promotion and disease prevention "best practices". This webinar will discuss recommended oral health practices to tackle ECC, as well as explore strategies to promote oral health racial and health equity related to access, availability, and affordability. This course will retire 1 November 2024
In partnership with Colgate-Palmolive
Price: US $60.00 | NCPD Hours: 3.00 | Course Number : ClinicalFKSD
Clinical Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators is a dynamic and learner-paced online course, designed like a supplemental study-guide booklet.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.30 | Course Number : COACH1
As you pursue your career goals and consider your coaching journey, this course is an outstanding tool to have at your fingertips. Coaching is useful for personal and professional development in a variety of areas and at all career levels. Whether you are looking for a coach or looking to become a coach, this course will provide skills and knowledge to assist you. The course will facilitate collaboration and communication, encourage professional development, and improve retention and career satisfaction.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB21
This webinar will share the work done that has identified several aspects which, if improved, could contribute significantly to the effectiveness of research and healthcare in the Pacific region. This research carryies out an examination of leadership in nursing and midwifery in the Pacific. It is divided into two parts: first, it develops a methodology to effect good research in the Pacific, and second, it describes the research itself into leadership in nursing in the Pacific. This course will retire after 17 February 2025.
Price: US $31.32 | NCPD Hours: 2.16 | Course Number : NNP008
Community health nursing combines public health sciences and nursing theories to improve and sustain the health of populations in communities. This course provides an overview of community health nursing history, poverty, sustainability, and the health care needs of developing countries.
Price: US $14.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.00 | Course Number : INRC23A
Price: US $10.87 | NCPD Hours: 0.75 | Course Number : INRC23B
Price: US $-1.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB17
Planning a continuing professional development offering can be challenging as there are many components to ensure high-quality education that engages the learner. This educational webinar will provide basic knowledge on educational planning along with tips and tricks to provide you as the nurse planner for continuing professional development offerings. This course will expire after 21 January 2025.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB20
In this webinar, we will discuss the history of vaccinations, beginning with the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and ending with the COVID-19 pandemic. We will discuss best practices to address vaccination hesitancy along with other epidemiological principles such as herd immunity. This course will retire after 7 February 2025.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 7.20 | Course Number : NMCP11
This course begins with a discussion about the costs of health care and creating budgets. It also describes the parts of a business plan, teaches financial planning concepts, and provides instruction on how to present the plan. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : SYFY03
Nurses are confronted with difficult patients and families daily. Understanding the feelings and emotions behind each demeanor allows the nurse to effectively assess the disruptive individual, determine the behavioral or medical cause of the disruption, and strategize potential solutions for handling the disruption.
Price: US $18.70 | NCPD Hours: 1.29 | Course Number : JNS052
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to describe the process used to create the Mental Health Innovation (MHI), a multicomponent implementation strategy that integrates evidence-based mental health interventions into the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a national home visiting program delivered by nurses to low-income mothers. This course will retire after 28th July 2025.
Price: US $19.57 | NCPD Hours: 1.35 | Course Number : JNS050
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to examine the role of diabetes nurse practitioners (DiNPs) and their contribution to the quality of care of individuals with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we examined the benefits and barriers of using telemedicine for managing diabetes. This course will retire after 28th July 2025.
Price: US $12.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : SP0006
Natural and human-shaped disasters are an unfortunate reality, but there are steps you can take to better prepare for them and assist in disaster relief efforts. This course presents an overview of a nurse’s role in planning for and responding to a mass casualty incident and includes information on how you and your family can better prepare for disasters.
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : JNS034
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to analyze the effect of different diabetes education methods on metabolic control, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.30 | Course Number : JNS046
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship was to elucidate the evidence related to utilizing e-Health as a tool in improving the quality of life of informal caregivers of dependent patients due to cerebrovascular accident (CVA).
Price: US $15.95 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : INRC22B
Presented from the frontline clinician perspective, this presentation will describe how to successfully translate research into clinical practice. Examples of nurse-led research incorporating the principles of knowledge translation that have resulted in improvements in patient outcomes are provided. Be inspired to design projects that will really make an impact. This course will expire on 25 July 2025.
Price: US $36.00 | NCPD Hours: 2.25 | Course Number : RNE_006
This is the last course in the Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators program and covers these topics: role of change agent; leadership as a nurse educator; commitment to lifelong learning; and engage in interprofessional relationships.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 4.40 | Course Number : NMCP15
This course is designed to facilitate a better understanding of ethical issues and the application of this understanding for making decisions in health care delivery. This course can be purchased individually but is also available as part of a package for the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $ | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : ANHE03
On this webinar, hear from nurse leaders as they share examples of how nurses can lead within their nursing practice to address climate change and how they are inspiring others to take action.
In partnership with ANHE.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB09
A group of Colorado nursing professionals united to conduct a phenomenological descriptive qualitative study that describes the lived experiences of nurses who cared/prepared to care for COVID-19 patients. Specifically, the discussion will capture mental/psychological impact including fear and uncertainty among Nurses who cared/prepared to care for COVID-19 patients. The results of this study have a promising impact on the international nursing profession. This course will retire after 28 September 2024.
Price: US $38.00 | NCPD Hours: 2.30 | Course Number : RNE_002
From the Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators program, this course focuses on the learner. Topics covered in the course include: reading to learn; student learning styles; diversity in education; student disabilities & accommodations; socialization: transition into practice; learning in the clinical environment; and faculty as advisors.
Price: US $56.00 | NCPD Hours: 2.75 | Course Number : RNE_001
In this first course, part of the Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators program, these topics are covered: learning domains; educational learning theories; learning environments for success; teaching strategies; technology integration in education; reflective practice; and role modeling and evidence-based practice.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 5.00 | Course Number : NMCP09
The purpose of this course is to understand effective staff development principles and the ways in which they provide value, not only to staff, but to patients and the organization. This course provides the tools needed to assess staff competency and to identify learning needs. Instructions for creating developmental and composite plans are also discussed. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $225.00 | NCPD Hours: 13.00 | Course Number : RNE
This learner-paced online program closely aligns to all major content areas within the Certificate Nurse Educator (CNE®) test blueprint. Each of the program's six courses are designed like chapters found in an online study guide booklet. These engaging courses feature interactive practice scenarios, knowledge checks, and downloadable resources to help learners prepare for the credentialing exam. Individual courses are available for purchase, too.
Price: US $90.00 | NCPD Hours: 6.75 | Course Number : 2020_FPRD
The purpose of this program is to provide information to assist faculty to achieve career goals that lead to promotion and/or tenure. Specifically, the Faculty Professional Role Development Program will assist faculty members on tenure-track and non-tenure-track positions to progress successfully through the ranks as a faculty member. Three core courses will focus on the Scholarship of Research, Scholarship of Teaching, and Scholarship of Practice.
Curriculum developed from the World Health Organization (WHO) Nurse Educator Core Competencies and the WHO’s Global Standards for the Initial Education of Professional Nurses and Midwives, Professional Development of Faculty recommendations.
Price: US $35.00 | NCPD Hours: 3.00 | Course Number : 2020_FPRD_SoD
Price: US $35.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : 2020_FPRD_SoP
Scholarship of Practice underscores the strategies for the advancement of the nurse educator in the clinical setting. It provides an outline of competencies and activities associated with the Scholarship of Practice.
Price: US $35.00 | NCPD Hours: 2.75 | Course Number : 2020_FPRD_SoT
Scholarship of Teaching focuses on the heart of the nurse educator role, covering topics in teaching & learning, measurement & evaluation, curriculum development & integration, and advancement as an academic nurse.
Price: US $70.50 | NCPD Hours: 9.40 | Course Number : LEAD01
Healthcare leaders must be able to control patient care expenses and understand the flow of patient revenues. This course will address capital and operating budgets, evaluating productivity, and healthcare related legislation.
Price: US $54.00 | NCPD Hours: 6.10 | Course Number : FLCP01
Charge nurses and other frontline leaders are critical links in the delivery of care to patients and families, as well as in the work environment. In this evidence-based course, charge nurses and leaders will learn the knowledge and skills essential for their role, paving the way for creating a desirable organizational culture that can impact patients, families, and staff alike. This program has been mapped to Magnet Standards, Pathway Standards, and QSEN competencies.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB11
Globally, nurses are being called upon to advocate for health equity. At the United Nations (UN), Sigma works to advance health equity through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Join Sigma's UN representatives for ideas on local actions and global efforts that nurses can engage in to build a healthier world. This course will retire after 21 October 2024.
Price: US $ | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : ANHE02
On this webinar speakers will provide an overview of how the health sector contributes to climate change and showcase initiatives being instituted by health systems and health organizations to reduce climate pollution.
Price: US $200.00 | NCPD Hours: 52.20 | Course Number : LEADProgram
To ensure quality patient care in today’s healthcare environment of increasing patient acuity and staff turnover, nurse leaders are asked to stay apprised of the latest in clinical practice and supervise more staff more effectively. Nurse leaders are expected to exhibit a broad range of leadership skills necessary to keep job satisfaction and productivity levels high and turnover rates low. The curriculum for this program is based on the testing blueprints of four nursing leadership/management credentialing certifications currently available and includes seven courses in addition to a pre- and post-assessment.
Price: US $16.24 | NCPD Hours: 1.12 | Course Number : WV058
The objective of this article from Worldviews of Evidence-Based Nursing is to investigate the associations between HPB and self-efficacy among nursing students in a context of high political uncertainty. Using your Sigma email and password, log in to your My Courses Dashboard to search and self-enroll in FREE courses from the catalog.
Price: US $24.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.70 | Course Number : CONV21A
President Ric Ricciardi hosted a panel of past Sigma presidents and CEOs to reflect on the journey of the organization. Discover how Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing began as a local organization and grew to serve nurses around the globe. This course will retire after 6 November 2024.
Price: US $16.25 | NCPD Hours: 0.00 | Course Number : JNS044
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship was to understand how emergency nurses develop resilience in the context of workplace violence. This course will retire after 17 September 2024.
Price: US $84.00 | NCPD Hours: 11.20 | Course Number : LEAD03
Leaders who understand the concepts and legal framework of effective human resource management develop satisfied staff which leads to improved retention, quality, productivity, and patient outcomes. This course will address recruitment, labor laws, staff performance, onboarding, staff development, and conflict resolution.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 5.00 | Course Number : NMCP05
This course will introduce the learner to human resources management, with a specific focus on recruitment and hiring practices. Strategies to create a positive work environment and increase staff retention will also be discussed. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $23.20 | NCPD Hours: 1.60 | Course Number : HTT01
Human trafficking (HT) victims often encounter health care providers while being trafficked including nurses, who play a pivotal role in identifying current and potential victims. This course is designed to provide a general overview of the complex issue of HT to help nurses spot the common red flags associated with it. Once these current and potential victims are identified, nurses can begin to provide meaningful, trauma-informed care and interventions.
Price: US $15.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : CONV21C
The events of 2020 have sped up the pace and altered the direction of technological change. Are you ready? In this high-energy talk, Crystal will show you what to do NOW to future-proof your career while leveraging technology to enjoy more opportunities and free time. This course will retire after 6 November 2024.
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Price: US $19.14 | NCPD Hours: 1.32 | Course Number : JNS053
Occupational stress was reported as an inhibitor of optimal performance among nurses. Emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a successful behavioral buffer against occupational stress and as a facilitator for better performance. The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is aimed to investigate the potential relationship between nurses' EI and their work performance and to examine the mediating role of occupational stress.
Price: US $15.95 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : WV054
The objective of this article from Worldviews of Evidence-Based Nursing is to develop a unified call to action for nurses to improve control of hypertension and cardiovascular health and provide information and resources to execute this call.
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : JNS043
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship was to develop an information model to support secondary use of data using electronic health records.
Price: US $7.25 | NCPD Hours: 0.50 | Course Number : INRC21A
Nursing scholarship shapes nursing science to constantly inform nursing education and practice. Nurses engaged in nursing and research should advocate the trifocal virtue of “Infusing Joy” through co-creation, awareness, and balance and purpose as inspired by President Ricciardi’s call to action. This course will retire after 21 July 2024.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 5.80 | Course Number : NMCP01
This course is designed to introduce the learner to the ways in which theory-guided evidence can assist managers with planning, decision making, and understanding relationships. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : NSA03
This webinar is part of Sigma's Casualties of Caring: Nurse Suicide Awareness series.
Almost 17 months into the pandemic, and our mental health is not getting better. Throughout COVID-19, nurses have been there for patients’ best days, worst days, and all the days in-between. Who will be there for us? How do we ensure that our needs are being taken care of? It's time to take some of the power back into our own hands and advocate for the mental health support we actually need. In this presentation, we will examine the pre-pandemic levels of burnout and the impact it has had on nursing during the pandemic. We will also explore options for how you can best advocate for better mental health support for yourself and your nursing community. This course will retire after 2 September 2024.
Price: US $61.50 | NCPD Hours: 8.20 | Course Number : LEAD04
Creating a culture of continuous improvement can be a valuable means of demonstrating excellence and creating stability in any practice setting. This course will discuss performance improvement initiatives, effective communication techniques, project management, and strategic planning.
Price: US $75.00 | NCPD Hours: 10.00 | Course Number : LEAD06
Leadership requires the purposeful selection of behaviors to successfully support a team’s effort to achieve shared goals. This course will examine the leadership process, facilitating change, and the leader’s role in implementing technology.
Price: US $20.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : LSP001
Seventy-four percent of nurse leaders are not conducting succession planning because they do not know how. This is evidenced by a gap in the literature regarding how to conduct succession planning and the small percentage of leaders actually doing it. This course aims to fulfill the need to contribute to nurses' knowledge and tools necessary to successfully conduct succession planning and increase the percentage of titled leadership conducting succession planning. Of nurses who completed this course as part of a pilot program, 100% demonstrated increased knowledge regarding succession planning. The majority reported having initiated recommended steps toward their own succession planning within three months.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.53 | Course Number : FYF08
What is the secret sauce impactful leaders have that makes them so successful in the same situations that others struggle in? Better yet, how do you build those qualities? Dr. Tiffany Love, Chief Operating Officer and Compliance Officer at Humboldt General Hospital, discusses the challenges leaders experience during uncertain times and provides strategies to become a more resilient leader. She discusses key attributes to leadership resilience and how to support leadership teams with the use of a 10-step resilience plan.
Price: US $10.87 | NCPD Hours: 0.75 | Course Number : CONV23B
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 5.50 | Course Number : NMCP14
This course is designed to educate the learner on legal documentation principles, classifying legal doctrines, and understanding risk management. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $10.00 | NCPD Hours: 0.80 | Course Number : SYFY02
This course will enhance your understanding of legal aspects of everyday nursing and help you to increase your ability to recognize and avoid the legal risks involved in nursing practice.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 4.80 | Course Number : NMCP16
This course is designed to assist nurse managers to make informed, thoughtful choices based on an understanding of the importance of both personal and professional life balance. This course can be purchased individually but is also available as part of a package for the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 6.00 | Course Number : NMCP07
This course will expose the learner to ways teams are formed, provide managers with effective skills to build and lead a team, and assist managers in dealing with conflict within a team structure. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.63 | Course Number : FYF03
Life right now is in a state of constant flux. Letting others around you know that you see them and support them in their efforts is always important, but in the world we are facing today, it is downright essential. Providing meaningful support doesn't have to cost you anything, and it is as easy as using something you already own: your ears.
Price: US $17.40 | NCPD Hours: 1.20 | Course Number : WV056
The objective of this article from Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing is to systematically review the literature to answer the question: “What is the worldwide prevalence of mental health effects in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic?” This course will retire after 3 May 2025.
Members have free access to Worldviews NCPD courses. Using your Sigma email and password, log in to your My Courses Dashboard to search and self-enroll in FREE courses from the catalog.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.87 | Course Number : FYF04
The reality is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was an issue nurses and other healthcare providers faced even before the pandemic. But an examination of the literature shows that pandemics can rightfully exacerbate the impact of PTSD, depression, and burnout on people, especially those working on the frontlines of healthcare. These resources describe how to identify risk factors for nurses and suggest strategies to perhaps lessen or prevent PTSD during this COVID-19 outbreak.
Price: US $11.60 | NCPD Hours: 0.80 | Course Number : INRC21B
Addressing health inequities, including structural racism, are important to a just healthcare system globally. This requires reflection on knowing and understanding the world. We must harness the energy, dynamism, and increase recognition of nursing generated by this pandemic to create and contribute to positive change benefiting future generations of nurses. This course will retire after 21 July 2024.
Price: US $129.95 | NCPD Hours: 0.00 | Course Number : CENE01
The Nurse Educator Mentorship Program is a step-by-step guide for educational or practical institutions to build their own customized, internal mentoring program that is evidence-informed and responsive. It is designed to enable institutions to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain a customized mentorship program that meets their needs.
Price: US $450.00 | NCPD Hours: 76.00 | Course Number : NMCP
The Nurse Manager Certificate Program is a robust Web-based educational tool using the latest evidence-based content. It is designed to help develop nursing management competencies necessary to function in today's fast-paced and ever-changing health care environment.
Program has been mapped to Magnet Standards, Pathway Standards, and QSEN competencies.
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : JNS042
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship was to explore how big data can be used to identify the contribution or influence of six specific workload variables: patient count, medication count, task count call lights, patient sepsis score, and hours worked on the occurrence of a near miss (NM) by individual nurses. Free for Sigma members.
Price: US $19.29 | NCPD Hours: 1.33 | Course Number : NS055
Since dementia is an irreversible progressive disease characterized by a decline in mental functions and overall health, a palliative care approach is recommended. Nevertheless, many persons with dementia experience burdensome hospitalizations in end-of-life care. Their quality of life during hospitalization can be improved by palliative nursing care that suits their fragile health. The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to explore hospital nurses' perceived support needs while providing high-quality palliative care for persons with dementia and to identify differences between nurses in different ward types and at different educational levels. This course will retire after 9 March 2026.
Price: US $13.05 | NCPD Hours: 0.90 | Course Number : INRC22C
This year's theme for International Nurses Day is Nurses, A Voice to Lead: Invest in Nursing and Respect Rights to Secure Global Health. We will explore how the profession pivots from pandemic response to recovery and repositions for a more influential global health leadership role. This course will expire on 25 July 2025.
Price: US $16.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : JNS045
In 2015, all member states that comprise the United Nations unanimously adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of ambitious and inclusive targets toward global economic, social, and environmental betterment. Nurses have a key role to play in the achievement of the SDGs. The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship was to conduct a scoping review to synthesize the literature related to nursing and the SDGs. This course will retire after 17 September 2024.
Price: US $50.63 | NCPD Hours: 4.10 | Course Number : ETHICS06
Healthcare professionals are mandated to protect and uphold all standards of healthcare practice. This course begins by exploring professional position statements in an organization and continues with a pragmatic discussion of the practical considerations a clinician may encounter when dealing with individual, context-specific, and ethical challenges. This course is part of the Healthcare Ethics Certificate Program.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 6.50 | Course Number : NMCP13
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : JNS033
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to evaluate what types and forms of support nursing staff need in providing palliative care for persons with dementia. Another aim was to compare the needs of nursing staff with different educational levels and working in home care or in nursing homes.
Price: US $14.50 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : INRC22A
Nurses across the world experience marginalization through gender, sexual orientation, age, race, religion, and disability. Social justice offers benefits to the nursing profession. Nurses are worn down by discrimination due to marginalization arising from social injustices. Professor Moorley discusses the protection of nurses from international organizations using a social justice framework. This course will expire 25 July 2025.
Price: US $10.15 | NCPD Hours: 0.70 | Course Number : CONV21B
The existing evidence and recommendations for the effectiveness of nutrition interventions across the continuum from preconception through to adolescence; with a specialized focus on disadvantaged populations. This course will retire after 6 November 2024.
Free for Sigma members: Using your Sigma email and password, log in to your My Courses Dashboard to search and self-enroll in FREE courses from the catalog.
Price: US $-5.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB05
Inclusion is the practice of providing equal access to opportunities and resources to those who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized. Students in our nursing education classrooms are in danger of being excluded due to many factors: poverty, race, religion, sexual preference, nationality, disabilities, culture, language, previous education, ideology, need to work, etc. It is our responsibility as nurse educators to purposefully create an inclusive learning environment in nursing education so that everyone we teach has a path to success. This course will retire after 23 August 2024.
Price: US $60.80 | NCPD Hours: 6.40 | Course Number : LEAD02
This course will help increase knowledge in regards to organizational structure, management systems, and information technology. Additionally, the concept of population health, and the determinants that contribute to that health, will be addressed.
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : JNS037
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to describe the creation and outcomes of a collaborative model and care facility for opioid overdose and addiction treatment based on compassion, patience, and respect: The Maryhaven Addiction Stabilization Center (MASC).
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB16
This presentation entails a brief overview on evidence-based uses of opioids in diverse clinical contexts, influences of opioid regulations across the globe, and common misconceptions related to effective opioid therapies. Furthermore, this presentation discusses how nurses may promote safe opioid use and detect opioid dependency and addiction. This course will retire after 20 January 2025.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : OHEL_PC
This free course defines early childhood caries and addresses the prevalence, etiology, risk factors, and consequences of oral disease in children. Nurses will learn their role in preventing early childhood caries, and as a member of the care team, nurses will promote oral health in children. From teaching a lesson or simply engaging with children, you can help us bring oral health education to vulnerable communities. Help kids and their families learn healthy oral care habits that will last a lifetime!
To earn NCPD contact hours for this free course, log in to your My Courses Dashboard using your Sigma username and password and search for this course to self-enroll. This course is also available in Spanish and Portuguese!
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.74 | Course Number : FYF05
In studying the impact of past pandemics, the additional stress and other related factors have been shown to increase burnout among nurses and other healthcare providers. Prior to the pandemic though, the level of nurses experiencing some degree of burnout was already 40 to 50%! These resources discuss the current science around the state of nursing burnout, including some changes in behaviors that we may be seeing considering the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we will identify how to spot some of those behavioral changes and share strategies to mitigate the impact of this pandemic on nursing burnout.
Price: US $30.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.90 | Course Number : RNE_004
Evaluation strategies for learning outcomes; quantitative tests for evaluation; evaluation & feedback; and clinical evaluation are the topics covered in this fourth course from the Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators program.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 7.20 | Course Number : NMCP10
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 4.30 | Course Number : NMCP08
This course will explore the nurse manager's role in patient satisfaction and address meeting administrative expectations, getting staff on board with initiatives, and excelling in patient satisfaction. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $18.27 | NCPD Hours: 1.26 | Course Number : JNS051
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB14
Limited decision-making capacity in end-of-life patients affects their abilities to express their preferences in medical decisions. Advance care planning (ACP) is a process of communication that enables individuals to consider those decisions ahead of time. This webinar provides an overview of ACP and end-of-life care and how these topics can be applied to nursing around the globe. This course will retire after 6th December 2024.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.30 | Course Number : JNS047
COVID-19 has presented health care professionals with unprecedented challenges. Significant risks have emerged as nurses have continued to work in delivering frontline health care during the pandemic. Feeling “at risk” has significant deleterious effects on nurses. The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship was to explore the perceptions of risk by Australian primary health care nurses (PHC)during COVID-19.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 1.04 | Course Number : FYF06
There’s a reason flight attendants instruct you to put your mask on first before helping others. You can’t give to others what you don’t have yourself. In a profession where you give 100% for the health of others, it’s equally as important for you to maintain a healthy, positive you. But where do you find the time? When you do find the time, what should you focus on? How do you ensure your needs are met despite the demanding expectations of your career? The answers to these questions look different for everyone, but the following resources can help lead you to the right self-care practices for you.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : ISPIN03
Professional Identity in Nursing is “a sense of oneself, and in relationship with others, that is influenced by characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse.” This session explores the critical need to form professional identity in nursing. Evidence will be presented on how nurse educators can foster professional identity in nursing students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In partnership with the International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing
Price: US $40.00 | NCPD Hours: 3.20 | Course Number : LEAD07
This course will address professional development and provide recommendations for improving nursing specialty certification rates at your organization. Additionally, this course will define and delve into the different aspects of professional practice models.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 4.00 | Course Number : NMCP06
The purpose of this course is to introduce the learner to the steps involved in project management, including how to select the appropriate members of the project management team. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.50 | Course Number : GNLA003
The purpose of this course is to provide an example of quality care at the end of life through a case study of an elderly gentleman who is dying. The case will demonstrate how effective communication with a healthcare team provides a desired quality of life and prepares one for a peaceful death.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB12
Psychological Capital (PsyCap) is a set of internal resources consisting of hope, efficacy, resiliency, and optimism—or HERO—that help navigate personal and professional obstacles to achieve success and foster leadership growth. Because nurses hold a multidimensional and evolving role, serving as educators, change agents, leaders, and mentors, nurses often need to extend their bandwidth to meet the continuous challenges of their profession. As nurses continue to manage the increasing demands, they need a robust set of internal resources to help them be successful.
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Price: US $15.37 | NCPD Hours: 1.06 | Course Number : WV057
The objective of this article from Worldviews of Evidence-Based Nursing is to determine the psychometric properties of the new 8-item EBP Mentorship Scale. This scale measures the degree to which clinicians perceive that EBP mentorship is available to them. Using your Sigma email and password, log in to your My Courses Dashboard to search and self-enroll in FREE courses from the catalog.
Price: US $38.00 | NCPD Hours: 2.10 | Course Number : RNE_005
In the fifth of six courses from the Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators program, the focused topics are: personal assessment and evaluation; legal and ethical standards for nurse educators; and professional development.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : NSA02
Part two of Sigma's Casualties of Caring: Nurse Suicide Awareness series
In this webinar, Dr. Christopher Friese, Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan, will review the latest multi-state data on the incidence of deaths by suicide among nurses, physicians, and the general population. He will review trends over time and correlated factors. The webinar will include strategies for individual nurses, nurse leaders, and policy advocates to intervene on the worrisome trends observed and the impact on the nursing workforce and public health.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : QSEN2020_03
This webinar is designed to help clinical faculty prepare for their first clinical day to prepare students to be safe and prepared for their clinical rotations.
Learning Outcomes:
In partnership with the QSEN Task Force: Academic Clinical Practice.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : QSEN2020_02
This webinar will discuss the barriers that students and faculty face in clinical regarding access and documentation in the electronic health record and medication administration record.
Price: US $17.40 | NCPD Hours: 1.20 | Course Number : JNS048
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to explore how the nursing profession has been a key factor driving improvement related to the six aims laid out in the "Crossing the Quality Chasm" report released by the National Academy of Medicine.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB01
Dr. Patricia Tabloski and Joanne Evans will share some of the lessons they learned and published in their recent book, Redefining Retirement for Nurses: Finding Meaning in Retirement. They interviewed 26 nurses nationally and internationally, focusing on their initial plans for retirement and describing what actually happened. Whether it was spending more time with family, travel, volunteering, moving, continuing in some way in their nursing profession, new ventures, or something totally different, their stories were all inspirational and may be helpful to you as you plan the life you want in retirement.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.50 | Course Number : GNLA001
The purpose of this course is to provide nurses with the knowledge on how to decrease and/or prevent the frequency and severity of agitated episodes in elders who are diagnosed with dementia.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.51 | Course Number : FYF01
The relationship between an employer and employee presumes mutual trust, but it’s not well defined. When trust is broken, the assumptive world of safety and security in the workplace is deeply violated. While grief is rarely identified as influencing broken trust, it is a powerful force that must be understood and acknowledged.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.47 | Course Number : FYF07
When a lack of forgiveness infiltrates your entire health system, it moves from fear and anger to mistrust and high turnover. If we can reframe our thinking of forgiveness, though, we can use this opportunity of chaos and systemic breakdown to awaken greater wisdom, compassion, and capability in our co-workers and ourselves.
Price: US $25.00 | NCPD Hours: 3.50 | Course Number :
This course shows the learner how to perform a mental status evaluation, while providing a review of major classifications of psychopathology, symptoms of mental illness, medication and therapies used to treat mental illness, and therapeutic communication techniques used to build a strong nurse-patient relationship.
Price: US $400.00 | NCPD Hours: 54.30 | Course Number : 0
This refresher program was designed for nurses who have been out of the nursing workforce but want to return to practice. It consists of seven courses that can be purchased separately, or as a complete program. The program certificate will be awarded after successful completion of all seven courses.
Completion of this program satisfies the didactic educational requirements in many states, which may be required before returning to a nursing role.
Price: US $20.00 | NCPD Hours: 2.50 | Course Number :
This course provides an overview of core values and principles of the nursing profession while examining regulatory, ethical and legal considerations to help guide nursing practice.
Price: US $40.00 | NCPD Hours: 4.70 | Course Number :
This course examines patient safety and quality improvement while exploring challenges and opportunities within healthcare such as cost, care delivery, transitions of care, consumer relationships, emerging trends in medicine, and advancements in health information technology, their relevance to nursing practice, and how nurses can make an impact.
Price: US $102.00 | NCPD Hours: 14.50 | Course Number :
This course begins laying the foundation of nursing through health promotion, disease prevention, communication, patient advocacy, and safety.
Price: US $63.00 | NCPD Hours: 9.00 | Course Number :
This course introduces the learner to medication administration, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics, highlighting medications specific to each of the body’s systems, their physiologic effects, therapeutic responses, and adverse effects.
Price: US $30.00 | NCPD Hours: 4.40 | Course Number :
This course walks the learner through a complete head-to-toe assessment, indicating normal findings versus abnormal findings.
Price: US $20.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : eSIMRTN
The Return to Nursing: Health Assessment Simulation course features a virtual simulation case that guides the primary nurse through performing a head-to-toe Health Assessment. The purpose of this learning activity is to allow the learner an opportunity to practice subjective (interviewing) and objective (physical examination) assessment skills in a simulated virtual clinical environment.
Price: US $120.00 | NCPD Hours: 15.70 | Course Number :
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB18
The University of Southern Mississippi incorporated the Nurse Manager Certificate Program within RN BSN program providing students the most recent evidence-based practice leadership skills. This presentation provides an overview of implementation into the program. This course will retire after 2 February 2025.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 5.40 | Course Number : NMCP12
This course will help the learner to gain the skills and knowledge needed to ensure a safe and healthful work environment in the health care setting. Topics include identifying and controlling risks, employee rights, and disaster preparedness. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $300.00 | NCPD Hours: 45.30 | Course Number : SAFEProgram
This course provides learners with the necessary knowledge and resources to develop a clinical knowledge base when caring for patients of sexual violence. The goal of this course is to provide affordable, comprehensive SAFE Adult/Adolescent education using pedagogical science to thread nursing philosophies, theory, concepts, practice frameworks, scope and standards of practice through forensic nursing educational opportunities. The course contains 14 modules which follow the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) Educational Guidelines for didactic course work in Adolescent/Adult SANE and features subject matter experts from around the United States. In accordance with IAFN guidelines, participants have 12 weeks to complete the program.
Price: US $35.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number :
Showcasing Your Accomplishments With a Portfolio is a learner-paced online course, meant to guide nurses in the development and maintenance of an organized portfolio for their own personal and professional needs. Ample real-life exemplars are viewable directly within the course. To support your portfolio development, various printable resources can be found throughout the entire course.
Learners may choose their own learning path, tailored to their role in academia and/or the clinical environment. This course is designed to help nurses who are just getting started on their portfolio, or those desiring to build and improve upon what has already been developed.
Price: US $17.50 | NCPD Hours: 1.40 | Course Number : SYFY06
This course will teach practicing nurses to effectively and professionally use social media tools to educate, advocate, collaborate, and communicate
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : ECN03
This webinar aims to help fellow early-career nurses understand how they can best utilise social media in an authentic yet professional manner. When used correctly, it has endless benefits to develop your career and networks. This course will retire after 9 July 2024.
Price: US $35.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.20 | Course Number : 2020_FPRD_GW
Successful Grant Writing supports the scholarly endeavor of grant writing and submission, by familiarizing nurses with the process, and providing current information regarding funding sources, key decision-making elements, and successful proposal development.
Price: US $99.00 | NCPD Hours: 3.40 | Course Number : APNprogram
This program supports nurses as they transition from registered nurse to nurse practitioner. It addresses new responsibilities, including prescriptive authority and business management considerations of billing, coding, and quality outcome measures while expressing the importance of taking the certification exam and becoming credentialed by the state and federal government. The program discusses the process of new employee onboarding and the benefits of mentor programs and fellowships as they transition into their new role. Learners will also discover ongoing resources for continuing education, networking, the importance of joining a professional organization, and work-life balance.
Price: US $105.00 | NCPD Hours: 10.00 | Course Number : SYFYprogram
This course supports newly graduated nurses by providing practical tips and techniques that minimize legal risks, help manage relationships with patients and co-workers, allow professional growth, and teach proper use of social media as you transition from student to professional nurse.
Price: US $15.21 | NCPD Hours: 1.20 | Course Number : TIIR01
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : JNS035
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to explore the association between the levels of temporary nurse staffing and patient mortality. Achieving adequate nurse staffing levels plays a vital role in keeping patients safe from harm. The evidence around deploying temporary staffing to maintain safe staffing levels is mixed, with some studies reporting no adverse effects on patient mortality.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 4.40 | Course Number : NMCP04
This course will discuss leadership and explore the components of what makes up leadership. It will also address creating a shared vision, empowerment, and staff recognition. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $13.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : WV037
This article from Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing evaluates the effectiveness of distraction cards in reducing pain and anxiety during intramuscular (IM) injection in children between 6 and 11 years of age.
Price: US $-1.00 | NCPD Hours: 0.00 | Course Number : WEB19
This webinar will attempt to provide a clearly constructed definition of the concepts that comprise meaning-based nursing care including its antecedents, defining attributes, and consequences. Several concepts involved in this study's evolution have led to concept maps wherein the outcome is a framework of how nurses can be meaning-based resulting in the formulation of meaning-based nursing care approaches. This course will expire after 2 February 2025.
Price: US $18.12 | NCPD Hours: 1.25 | Course Number : WV060
The objective of this article from Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing aims to describe the evidence regarding the impact of organizational compassion on clinicians, identify gaps, and provide recommendations for future research.
Price: US $18.85 | NCPD Hours: 1.30 | Course Number : JNS049
The purpose of this article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship is to understand the mediating effect of workplace incivility on the relationship between nursing organizational culture and turnover intention among nurses.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : NSA01
Part one of Sigma's Casualties of Caring: Nurse Suicide Awareness series We have known for several years that nurses are at higher risk of suicide than the general population and that nurses have more job-related problems recorded prior to death by suicide. What we have now learned about those job-related problems is troublesome at best with implications for clinicians, educators, risk managers, hospital executives, and all leaders in healthcare. This panel will describe the issues and implications for education, advocacy and policy change necessary to right the wrongs leading to death by suicide amongst nurses.
Price: US $38.28 | NCPD Hours: 2.64 | Course Number : EDIT01
Publishing in a peer-reviewed journal can give you more recognition and opportunities for advancement. But do you know how to do it? How do you write and submit a manuscript? Which journal should you submit to? This course will provide practical tips to get your work published. Content will cover selecting the right journal, suggestions for a brief letter to the editor, steps for manuscript construction, and tips if asked to revise content.
Price: US $19.58 | NCPD Hours: 1.60 | Course Number : TL04
Now that hospitals are reimbursed for quality performance, nurse leaders need to ensure their staff have the resources to deliver exceptional patient care, communicate effectively, be engaged, and have the opportunity for professional growth. In order to achieve to this, nurse leaders themselves need development and educational opportunities. This course identifies the traits for a transformation leader, and explains the benefits of being a transformational leader in nursing as well as on an organizational level.
Price: US $23.75 | NCPD Hours: 1.90 | Course Number : SYFY01
This course will prepare newly licensed nurses to successfully find their first nursing jobs, assimilate into the profession and work environment, and thrive in the first years of practice and beyond.
Price: US $12.50 | NCPD Hours: 0.75 | Course Number : FYF02
Nurses are torn. Ethical dilemmas meet them at every corner—a lack of PPE, determining which patients receive ventilators, no family at the bedside for dying patients. This list could go on and on. We can't ignore the psychological impact this is having on nurses, leading to grief, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. By understanding the science behind feeling the way we do, nurses can better embrace high-stress situations and become authors of their emotions—writing their own script for emotional well-being.
Price: US $27.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.70 | Course Number : RNE_003
This learner-paced online course from the Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators program, focuses on evaluation and includes these topics: evaluation strategies for learning outcomes; quantitative tests for evaluation; evaluation & feedback; and clinical evaluation.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 7.00 | Course Number : NMCP02
This course is designed to educate the learner on the steps required in applying evidence to administrative decision making. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $59.95 | NCPD Hours: 5.00 | Course Number : NMCP03
This course will introduce the learner to the ways in which theory-guided evidence can assist with strategic planning to achieve goals. Key dimensions of strategic planning methods are reviewed and evidence that promotes the application of concepts to administrative practice is discussed. This course can be purchased separately but is also included in the Nurse Manager Certificate Program.
Price: US $15.95 | NCPD Hours: 1.10 | Course Number : WV055
The objective of this article from Worldviews of Evidence-Based Nursing is to describe types of virtual simulations that are relevant to nursing student education and examine how these modalities are applied to teach elements of evidence-based practice. This course will retire after 3 May 2025.
Price: US $0.00 | NCPD Hours: 1.00 | Course Number : WEB10
In this webinar, two school nurses will discuss the major lessons learned from the challenges of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in school nursing during the 2020-2021 school year. They will describe the positive takeaways and identify opportunities for improvement for the 2021-2022 school year, including goals while working during the ongoing pandemic. During the webinar, the presenters will compare and contrast two schools in different states—one urban charter school and one suburban special school district (SSD) in a large multi-school district in the United States. This course will retire after 29 September 2024.
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