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Continuing Education

AudioDigest Instructions
All Audio Digest programs can be used for credit or contact hours by physicians, PAs, and nurses. Certain Audio Digest programs can be used for credit or contact hours by certified registered nurse anesthetists, psychologists, optometrists, ophthalmic technicians, and registered dietitians or dietetic technician.

CDC Training and Continuing Education Online (TCEO)
TCEO provides the public health and health care workforce access to CDC educational activities that offer free CE credits, contact hours, or units. Use TCEO to search for CE opportunities, complete course evaluations and posttests, obtain your CE certificates, and manage your CDC CE transcript. CDC is accredited with Distinction as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation. Use the search function in TCOE to search for course by accreditation type.

CINAHL Complete Instructions
CINAHL CE modules are interactive educational modules that allow nurses, social work, and allied health professionals to satisfy CE requirements online. They contain the latest topics on patient care and drug administration. Each CE module consists of course material, an interactive review, and a competency test with a certificate of completion. CEU is available to nurses and allied health professionals.

ClinicalKey for Nursing Instructions
Earn continuing nursing education contact hours accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation by reading Clinical Updates in ClinicalKey for Nursing.

Medscape
Medscape, LLC offers online CE for selected journal articles, allowing clinicians the opportunity to earn Medscape CE credit. Medscape, LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center, to provide continuing education for the health care team. Register for free or login without a password to get unlimited access to all continuing education activities.>

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Instructions
Natural Medicines offers a variety of continuing education credits derived from the Prescribers’ Letter and Natural Medicines for all healthcare professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses.

UpToDate Instructions
Time spent reading UpToDate topics can be used to fulfill requirements for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and other nursing certification organizations. Refer to Nursing Continuing Education Requirement and Use of UpToDate State Licensing Board Regulations for further information about acceptance of UpToDate CE.

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Evidence-Based Practice Resources

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CINAHL Complete
Database for nursing and allied health professionals, offering access to over 600 full-text journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.

ClinicalKey for Nursing
Database of nursing journals, books, drug monographs, evidence-based nursing monographs, clinical topic summaries, videos, and images from the publisher Elsevier.

The Cochrane Library (via Ovid)
Collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making comprised of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ACP Journal Club, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Clinical Answers, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment, & NHS Economic Evaluation Database

Essential Evidence Plus
Evidence-based clinical decision support system featuring over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians come in contact with every day.

Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement
Online guide to planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve quality of care and health outcomes.

Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, 4th ed.
Online book that instructs the reader on how to find, critically read, and interpret a range of research studies and provides optimal approaches towards helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence.

Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database
Evidence-based nursing and allied health database with over 3,000 records of evidence-based recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, systematic reviews, and systematic review protocols.

Ovid MEDLINE
Ovid’s subscription interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

PubMed
National Library of Medicine’s free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

Trip Medical Database
Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.