Nurses and Health Care Providers

Clear and accurate documentation is an essential element of safe nursing practice. This conference will guide nurses to become more aware of the legal aspects of nursing practice associated with documentation. You will learn an approach to documentation that will you keep you, your patients, and your license safe. We also will explore the complex issues involved in basic legal situations.

Presenters:

• Kristin Coleman, RN, WCC
• Rick Tast, JD, BSN, RN Assistant City Attorney

Course Offerings

• Lincoln - Dec. 4, 2021

LPNs: There are new state licensure regulations that affect you. Every LPN who graduated before May 2016 or has not successfully completed the LPNC course must complete an approved 8-hour didactic course on IV therapy by August 2022. RNs are welcome to take this class, too.

This 8-hour course meets the didactic portion of the new requirement for all LPNs with a well-rounded review of IV therapy. Topics covered will be legal aspects of IV therapy, peripheral IVs and central lines. You can work at your own pace and at times which fit into your schedule.

Course Offerings

• Online - Jan. 10-March 5, 2022
• Online - March 7-April 30, 2022

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Online Registration Keyword: Therapy

LPNs: here are new state licensure regulations that affect you. Every LPN who graduated before May 2016 or has not successfully completed the LPNC course must complete an approved 8-hour didactic course on IV therapy by August 2022. RNs are welcome to take this class, too.

Prerequisite: You must take SCC Intravenous Therapy: Current Standards of Practice 1 course before or at the same time as this course or provide proof of completion of a similar course.

This 8-hour course includes both online and face-to-face components. Successful completion of this course will meet the IV therapy skills course requirement for LPNs who wish to practice IV therapy.

Course Offerings

• Online & Beatrice - March 7-April 30, 2022

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Online Registration Keyword: Therapy

The Trauma Nursing Core Course, developed by the Emergency Nurses Association, is designed for registered nurses who have at least six months of clinical nursing experience in an emergency care setting. Other health care professionals may audit the course.Trauma nursing, as a discipline, refers to the process and content of the various roles nurses have in the care of the trauma patient. The purpose of TNCC is to present knowledge, refine skills and build a firm foundation in trauma nursing. The Trauma Nursing Core Course consists of a combination of lecture time and skills stations.

Course Director: Jodi DeWitt, RN, MSN, has more than 25 years of experience as a nurse. Jodi has worked at various critical care area hospitals and emergency rooms in Nebraska. She is a member of the Emergency Room Nurses Association. She is a certified instructor for TNCC.

Course Offerings

• Lincoln - March 3 & 4, 2022

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Online Registration Keyword: Trauma

Creating a Network of Support for Families

This interactive course is designed as an in-depth introduction for providers who work with parents and babies. The content focuses on infant nutrition from a psychosocial perspective with a goal of helping participants improve their comfort level and provide accurate breastfeeding information and compassionate support.

This course is co-sponsored by Southeast Community College, Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln, and MilkWorks.

Instructor: Ann Seacrest brings 35 years of experience as a certified childbirth educator, certified doula and doula teacher, hospital-based postpartum and lactation nurse, co-founder of MilkWorks, and clinical IBCLC. The curriculum is based on educational and clinical protocols developed by Kathy Leeper, MD, a nationally known breastfeeding medicine specialist and Fellow in the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

Course Offerings

• LIVE Online through Zoom - Feb. 7-21, 2022

Co-provided by Wellbeing Initiative, Inc., and SCC.

This course is for people interested in becoming certified Peer Support Specialists. This state- and nationally-approved curriculum is split between 40 hours of face-to-face training and 25 hours of online course work.

The training uses The 5 Primary Tools:

1. Authentic Engagement
2. Conscious Exploration
3. Personal Wellness
4. Empowered Advocacy
5. Possible Together as its founding principles

Course Offerings

• Lincoln - Jan. 11-June 14, 2022

Join us in our new state-of-the-art Health Science Building for this intensive one-day course is designed for health care professionals caring for patients in the immediate post-operative period.

The day will be divided into a two-part learning experience including classroom and lab/simulation activities.

Classroom topics and simulation scenarios will include:

• Identification of common medications used during surgery and conscious sedation procedures
• Recognition and management of potential post-operative (anesthesia) complications, including side effects related to intra-operative medications
• Development of skills for effective team communication and safe patient hand-off
• During collaborative simulation scenarios small groups will incorporate classroom content to increase confidence in post anesthesia patient care

Course Offerings

• Lincoln - Nov. 13, 2021

This workshop takes school nurses and other school health professionals back to the basics focusing on best practice in the areas of school health screening and care of the student with common school health concerns including anxiety, rashes, diabetes, and asthma.

Course Offerings

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Advancing Your Test Construction & Analysis Skills: Beyond the Basics
This conference will help nurse educators with varying levels of expertise in testing to advance their test construction skills. Donna Ignatavicius will guide participants through elements of item construction which will include small group discussion. Processes for exam quality and analysis will be discussed as well as exam security and fidelity. The latest developments in NextGen NCLEX will be included.

About the Speaker:
Donna D. Ignatavicius, MS, RN, CNE, CNEcl, ANEF, is best known as Iggy by faculty and students, has been a nurse educator for prelicensure and RN-to-BSN programs for more than 30 years. Founder of the highly-respected international conference, Boot Camp for Nurse Educators®, Iggy consults and provides professional development for individual schools and state groups. Her latest edition of Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Collaborative Care (10th Ed.) and her newest book, Developing Clinical Judgment for Professional Nursing Practice and Next-Generation NCLEX-RN®, were published in 2020. The PN/VN version of this NGN workbook will be released in Fall 2021. Iggy is an NGN consultant and thought leader for Elsevier to help guide nursing product development and revision.

Course Offerings

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Southeast Community College can help you renew your nursing career with our RN/LPN Refresher course. This course is designed to reinstate or reactivate your license, and meets the requirements for a refresher course as outlined by the Nebraska Board of Nursing.

Developed to update the nurse’s knowledge and clinical skills required for the delivery of professional nursing care in today’s health care system, this course provides interactive learning experiences that enable you to expand knowledge and skills as you prepare for reentry into nursing practice.This course consists of 60 contact hours of online learning, including 90 hours of skills/lab and clinical are required.

This course will run approximately 16 weeks. To use this course to reinstate your nursing license, you must successfully complete the lecture, lab and clinical portions of the course. This course will include the mandatory 8‑hour IV training that all LPNs are required.

Course Offerings

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CSTE program application has been submitted for approval by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists. Participants must attend the entire workshop to receive credit.

The Nebraska Sleep Conference 2021 will provide continuing education for Sleep Technologists and others interested in the diagnosis, management and treatment of sleep disorders. Continuing education credits will be specifically approved for those needing to maintain the RPSGT credential. Continuing education credits also can be submitted for maintaining Nebraska Respiratory Therapist licenses, as well as maintaining the credentials through the NBRC.

Course Offerings

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