CE Classes & Workshops

This CE class will review the current state of scientific knowledge about the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We will also discuss the status of the COVID-19 pandemic that began in January 2020 and has impacted nurses and other healthcare workers around the world.

Objectives: After this class, participants should be able to:

1. Describe the current state of scientific knowledge about the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
2. Discuss the status of the COVID-19 pandemic

Instructors: Rocelyn de Leon-Minch and Jane Thomason

2 hours for 2 CE credits

Scientific research about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 continues to evolve. This CE class will review recent significant scientific findings about the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This class will also invite participants to analyze what those scientific findings mean for nurses in their advocacy for safe patient care.

Objectives: After this class, participants should be able to:

1. Describe significant scientific findings regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus
2. Discuss what these scientific findings mean for nurses in their advocacy for safe patient care.

Instructors: Rocelyn de Leon-Minch and Jane Thomason

2 hours for 2 CE credits

Thousands of nurses and other healthcare workers have been impacted by COVID-19 and hundreds have died because of dangerous working conditions. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have been actively advocating for safer working conditions so they can provide safe patient care. This CE class will trace worker advocacy for workplace safety through history, leading up to nurses’ historic advocacy in the current pandemic. We will discuss what lessons this history can offer for nurses’ current workplace safety advocacy. The impetus for collective organizing and workplace safety and health is needed now more than ever. This class will have a special focus on historical advocacy by women workers and workers of color.

Objectives: After the class, participants should be able to:

1. Discuss workers’ advocacy for workplace safety throughout history.
2. Describe steps they can take to advocate for safer patient care conditions.

Instructors: Rocelyn de Leon-Minch and Jane Thomason

2 hours for 2 CEs

The virus that causes COVID-19 was first identified in January 2020. Scientific knowledge about this novel virus has changed rapidly over the year. This CE class will review the major scientific updates about COVID-19 with a special focus on new information. We will also discuss the implications of these scientific updates for nurses and their advocacy for safe patient care.

Objectives: After this class, participants should be able to:

1. Describe major updates in scientific knowledge regarding COVID-19
2. Discuss the implications of these scientific updates for nurses and their advocacy for safe patient care.

Instructors: Rocelyn de Leon-Minch and Jane Thomason

2 hours for 2 CE credits

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COVID-19 and the Global Pharmaceutical Industry: Behind the Search for a Vaccine

As the world rushes to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, who stands to benefit and who risks getting left behind? This class will examine how a deregulated pharmaceutical industry left us ill-equipped to face emerging infectious diseases, and what needs to change as we gear up for the threat of future pandemics.

Queering Care: Ensuring LGBTQI+ Equity in Delivery of Nursing Care

This course will examine the unmet health needs and unique healthcare disparities faced by LGBTQI+ people in the US. We will review historical and ongoing struggles for LGBTQI+ health justice and nurses’ vital role as patient and community advocates in the fight for social justice.

Fighting the Monopoly Epidemic

From hospitals to health insurance to pharmaceuticals, health care is increasingly dominated by corporate monopolies. This course will explore the factors driving this trend; how monopoly power threatens our physical and financial health, especially in the time of COVID-19; and how nurses can fight back.

This course will identify institutional factors that contribute to racial disparities in health care. It will analyze patterns and practices throughout the health care system that contribute to unequal resources, health opportunities, and power, which in turn cause harm to patients of color and their communities.  

The course will also examine how the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to further entrench racism in health care. Different health care industries are attempting to use the pandemic to increase profits to the detriment of racial justice. At the same time, there has been a dangerous revival of pharmaceutical and biotech research that substitutes race for other, as yet unidentified causal pathways. Even as Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people are contracting and dying of COVID-19 at alarming rates, insurance companies have made record profits as non-COVID related services have declined, and hospital systems remain unaccountable for facility closures in communities with the highest health needs.

The course will conclude with a discussion of the ways that Medicare for All would redress structural racial disparities in health care as well as how equality in health care is central to the broader fight for racial justice.  

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Define institutionalized racism
• Identify how racism has been historically institutionalized across the health care system and how this relates to structural racism in the wider economy
• Explain how the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to further entrench racism in specific health care industries
• Understand the role of nurse advocacy in advancing institutional solutions for redressing systemic racism
• Discuss how Medicare for All can help dismantle patterns of institutionalized racism and rectify racial health disparities

Instructor: Omid Mohamadi

Course Details:

This will be a hybrid course consisting of a 2-hour online class via Zoom followed by a 1-hour home study that can be completed on the same day for a total of 3 hours of continuing education credits. An additional, optional hour of home study will be available for California-based nurses. After registering at the link below, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom class via email. It is important that you respond to the invitation and register for the Zoom class prior to the day of the class. If you have any questions, please contact Valerie Gonzalez at vgonzalez@calnurses.org.

COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of our lives. Beyond the dangers of the virus itself, our health and well-being are threatened by the social, political, and economic consequences of the pandemic. This five-part course will examine how preexisting inequities have magnified the effects of COVID-19, how the crisis is impacting the social and structural determinants of patient health, and what this means for nurses’ advocacy at the bedside and in their communities.

The course will consist of five classes that can be taken individually or as a series. Classes will cover various topics related to the coronavirus crisis, including:

1. Racial Health Disparities and COVID-19
2. COVID-19 and the Future of Our Health Care System
3. Essential Work, Gender Health Equity, and COVID-19
4. COVID-19 and the Economy
5. COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Identify the preexisting social and economic conditions that have exacerbated the effects of the pandemic.
• Assess the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color and articulate how nurses, patients, and their communities can work together to undo structural violence and racism, and to advance social justice and sustainable public health.
• Describe how our profit-driven health care system left us vulnerable to the pandemic, how countries with more universal health care systems were able to respond more effectively, and how we systemic reform will make us better prepared for future public health emergencies.
• Assess the gendered impacts of COVID-19, discuss how the pandemic has highlighted the importance of essential work, and explain how we can advance gender health equity in our responses to the crisis.
• Analyze the health impacts of the economic crisis and identify steps we can take to meet workers’ immediate needs, facilitate economic recovery, and prevent future crises.
• Recognize the connections between the public health crises posed by the pandemic and the climate crisis and offer strategies for addressing both the acute effects of these crises and their underlying causes.

Instructors

• Isaac Ontiveros - Racial Health Disparities and COVID-19
• Omid Mohamadi - COVID-19 and the Future of Our Health Care System
• Heidi Hoechst - Essential Work, Gender Health Equity, and COVID-19
• Chris Nielsen - COVID-19 and the Economy
• Kel Montalvo-Quinones - COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis

Course Details

This online course will consist of five 2-hour classes via Zoom for 2 hours of continuing education credits each. You can register for all five classes, a few, or just one, depending on your needs and interests. Classes may be taken in any order. You will receive a certificate for 2 CE credits upon completion of each class, but please note that you cannot receive credit for repeating a class on the same topic.

After registering at the link below, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom class via email. It is important that you respond to the invitation and register for the Zoom class before the day of the class. If you have any questions, please contact Valerie Gonzalez at vgonzalez@calnurses.org.

Nursing has been described as both a science and an art. What is the science of nursing?  How do we express the art of nursing? Is the humanitarian nature of nursing in danger? How do these elements help us actualize the essence of nursing practice in the context of widespread societal, political, and health care delivery changes? 

This online course and associated home studies will examine these questions as we look at the central role of Registered Nurses during the current global pandemic. 

Course Objectives:

• Articulate the unique patient advocacy role RNs hold in the health care delivery system, both historically and during health care crises such as the current pandemic 
• Define the critical role RNs have in maintaining the science and defending the art of nursing to preserve holistic patient care 
• Recognize the potential of technology and restructuring to supplant RN critical thinking and independent clinical judgment with rigid clinical pathways or RN displacement 
• Discuss the historical and contemporary roles of RNs in the face of infectious disease and public health threats 

Instructors:

• Gerard Brogan, RN
• Patricia Gonzalez, RN

Notice!

Due to the social isolation edicts necessitated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, we will be holding upcoming CE classes online. We will be using Zoom as the online platform. Register as usual and we will send you an invite to the Zoom class.

This will be a hybrid style class with 3 hours online via Zoom followed by two 2-hour home studies that can be completed on the same day for a total of 7 hours of continuing education credits

We will be sending everyone who registered for the class an invitation to the zoom class via email. It is important that you respond to the invitation and register for the zoom class prior to the day of the class.

We realize this is yet another change in your stressful lives at the moment, please email Susie Gonzalez at sgonzalez@canurses.org if you need any clarification of these changes or have any questions.