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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Common Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities

Professional Development Educator Topic - Common Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities

This module should enable you to:
1. Describe special risks of long-term care residents in regard to:

• urinary tract infections
• pneumonia
• influenza
• scabies
• tuberculosis
• vaginitis
• herpes zoster
• HIV, AIDS
• antibiotic-resistant infections

2. Describe the ways infections can appear atypically in older residents.
3. List at least 8 possible signs of infection.

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.