Nurse Onboarding and Retention

Essentials of Critical Care Orientation: This interactive, care-based course is designed to orient nurses on critical care basics. Modules cover the diagnostic tools, diseases and disorders, and patient management principles common in the critical care unit.

Basic ECG Interpretation 2.0: This 6.5-hour course features real-life case studies to deepen learner understanding and sharpen clinical skills. Nurses are equipped with knowledge for quickly identifying potential cardiac threats and responding appropriately.

Essentials of ECG and Dysrhythmia Monitoring: This program provides content for nurses working in critical care, progressive care of any other area where ECG monitoring is provided by equipping clinicians to identify cardiac rhythm changes, determine patient needs, and respond quickly.

OB RN Circulators: This curriculum is aimed to educate and prepare your OB surgical nurses by focusing on the special nursing care considerations for the mother and newborn.

Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Nurses: The modules for this specialty course are created specifically to onboard your new perioperative nurses in the ASC setting. 

Perioperative Annual Competency Assessment: This evidence-based competency assessment program, co-developed by experts at HealthStream and AORN, helps reduce patient risk by structuring and assessing the perioperative knowledge of nurses and surgical technologists on a regular, ongoing basis. Designed to be used for annual review and ongoing skill verification, the Perioperative Annual Competency Assessment program is provided as a set of test-based knowledge assessments, each with its own corresponding skill verification checklist. Together, these tools provide a means for organizations to effectively and consistently measure and verify a clinician’s knowledge both theoretically and through active, real-world care at the bedside.

Perinatal Orientation and Education Program (POEP): The Perinatal Orientation and Education Program (POEP) includes everything you need to provide quality, evidence-based education to your perinatal nursing staff. It is designed to orient nurses to the perinatal unit and provide continued and advanced education making it a program that will pay for itself many times over. POEP’s courses focus on the essentials necessary for all perinatal nurses. Courses combine video, animation, case studies, and competence assessment tools that ensure nurses gain key knowledge and skills. POEP reflects the current state of science in perinatal nursing. Use POEP as an educational resource to ensure that consistent, high quality care is delivered to women and newborns at your facility.

Maternal Fetal Triage Index (MFTI): The Maternal Fetal Triage Index (MFTI) educational module educates nurses about obstetric triage basics - what triage means in obstetrics, what the nurses' role is, and how a systematic approach can be beneficial to improve the process of triage and outcomes. This interactive learning module introduces AWHONN's new Maternal Fetal Triage Index, a five-level acuity classification index, describing how it is used to prioritize a woman's urgency for evaluation by a provider. Clinical cases throughout the module and in the posttest assist the nurse to apply the concepts presented to prioritize the cases.

Essentials of Pediatric Critical Care Orientation (EPCCO) and Essentials of Neonatal Critical Care Orientation (ENCCO): Bridge the knowledge gap between what clinicians learn in school and what is expected of them in treating critically ill children. EPCCO and ENCCO’s online didactic content enhances clinical confidence and competence in caring for the most fragile of patients.

Essentials of Pediatric Acute Care Orientation (EPACO):  Developed in collaboration with Pediatric Learning Solutions' PACO Advisory Committee and subject matter experts, Essentials of Pediatric Acute Care Orientation (EPACO) uniquely bridges the knowledge gap between what clinicians learn in school and what is expected of them in treating hospitalized children. These CE-approved online modules ensures all orientees receive evidence-based, standardized education with content that is continually reviewed and updated. This comprehensive program engages learners with attractive graphics, illustrations, videos and photos. Case scenarios and practice activities enhance knowledge transfer and knowledge retention. Integrated as part of a blended learning program that includes precepting, workshops and simulation activities, EPACO's online didactic content enhances clinician confidence and competence in caring for pediatric patients in the acute care setting. Pediatric Learning Solutions is a division of Children's Hospital Association.

Surviving Your First Years as a Nurse: A series of six online courses provide nurses with essential career information they might not have received in nursing school. These courses explore Dealing with Difficult Patients, Legal Risks as a Nurse, Advancing Your Nursing Career, Transitioning from Student to Professional Nurse, Social Media for Healthcare Providers, and Bullying: A Nurse-to-Nurse Dilemma.