Online Professional Development Educators

Targeted to nurses, these lesson modules are professionally researched and written to ensure that each topic is presented in a practical and rich learning format. Provide 1 to 2 contact hours each. Webcasts are narrated powerpoint recordings, ranging in length from 20-40 minutes long and stream over the internet. To receive your continuing education certificate, payment of $5 per person (via check or credit card) is required upon completion of program.

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Clinical Implications of Common Aging Changes

Professional Development Educator Topic - Clinical Implications of Common Aging Changes

This module should enable you to:

1. List common age-related changes to the:

cardiovascular system
respiratory system
gastrointestinal system
genitourinary system
musculoskeletal system
nervous system sensory organs
endocrine system
immune system
integumentary system
thermoregulation

2. Describe psychological and cognitive changes experienced with age.
3. Discuss risks associated with age-related changes.
4. Describe caregiving considerations related to age-related changes.

In order to fulfill requirements to obtain the contact hour the learner must read the entire module, take and pass the test with a score of at least 70%, and submit the Continuing Education Registration and Evaluation Form on the last page of this module. Contact hours for this program will be offered through 2013.
The author declares no conflict of interest.