American Heart Association BLS

This course is for healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

The American Heart Association’s BLS training is cutting-edge, not only in terms of its evidence-based content, but in its use of a well-tested methodology that can dramatically improve both the learning and retention of lifesaving skills. Please contact our Training Site near you to coordinate your skills session for completion of your skills. View our Training Sites.

No CME Credits Available

American Heart Association ACLS Renewal

The American Heart Association’s ACLS Course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care.

ACLS is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units. View our Training Sites.

No CME Credits Available

American Heart Association PALS Renewal

PALS is geared towards healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a course completion card, valid for two years.

AHA PALS is available in two different training methods – blended learning and classroom training. All AHA PALS course options teach the same AHA science-based skills and result in the AHA PALS Course Completion Card.

On-Demand PALS Online is a Blended Course with eLearning program that uses online sessions allow students to assess and treat patients in virtual healthcare settings. In this environment, students apply their knowledge to real-time decision-making and skills development

Students who successfully complete the online portion of the course receive a certificate granting them access to a PALS Hands-on Skills Session with an AHA PALS Instructor. Students must successfully complete both the online portion and the hands-on skills session to receive an AHA PALS Provider course completion card.

You can take the 60 min skills session at one of our Training Sites.

No CME Credits Available

American Red Cross Adult and Pediatric CPR/First Aid/AED

This free online Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED program is available in blended learning, featuring online simulation learning followed by an in-person skills session. The purpose of the courses in the First Aid/CPR/AED program is to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies to know how to care for a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.

After completion of the free online course, you are invited to do a skills check (prices vary) at one of these locations.

American Red Cross Adult CPR and First Aid

This free online course will prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of first aid, breathing and cardiac emergencies for adults. This Online blended approach combines online work with hands-on skills sessions.

Adult First Aid/CPR/AED program is to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies to know how to care for a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.

The Adult First Aid/CPR/AED program is available in blended learning, featuring online simulation learning followed by an in-person skills session.

The purpose of the courses in the First Aid/CPR/AED program is to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies to know how to care for a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.

After completion of the free online course, you are invited to do a skills check (prices vary) at one of these locations.

American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS)

The purpose of the Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS) program from the American Red Cross is to ensure that healthcare providers have the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies. The course emphasizes active, hands-on learning and uses scenario activities to help participants learn how to provide CPR, use an AED and relieve an obstructed airway for adult, child and infant patients. This course gives you the flexibility to complete part of your training online through our dynamic Simulation Learning experience, which combines online coursework with in-person skills sessions, so you can earn your BLS certification your way.

After completion of the free online course, you are invited to do a skills check (prices vary) at one of these locations.

American Red Cross Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Our free online Advanced Life Support classes are available via an innovative Blended Learning program, which combines online coursework with an in-person skills session – so you can take them when and where you like – and on the device that suits you best. Throughout the course, our interactive scenarios will help you understand the science behind ALS and the finer points of providing care, and improve your clinical decision-making skills.

With the free online class complete, and after passing your final written exam, we invite you to attend an in-person skills session (prices vary) – where you’ll meet with a certified Red Cross instructor and demonstrate your ALS skills. After passing both sections of the course, you’ll receive a two-year ALS certificate. See our skills testing locations.

American Red Cross Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS)

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training can help you provide life-saving care to infants and children during times of crisis. Using a science-based curriculum, personalized instruction and a scenario-based approach, our PALS course will help you learn to assess patients, provide advanced interventions, and improve critical-thinking skills so you can provide better care more confidently. Throughout the course, our interactive scenarios will help you understand the often-nuanced facets of pediatric care and will help improve your clinical decision-making skills. After completing the online portion of course, and passing the final written exam, you’ll attend an in-person skills session where you’ll demonstrate your PALS skills to a certified Red Cross American Red Cross PALS certifications are valid for two years from the completion date.

After completion of the free online course, you are invited to do a skills check (prices vary) at one of these locations.

Donning and Doffing of PPE with COVID-19 Case

This is a Micro-Simulation on the CDC Recommended Guidelines for Donning and Doffing of PPE with COVID-19 Case.

View a 10-minute module that offers a video review of the proper procedure for donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE) followed by a micro-simulation case for the medical professional to donn and doff PPE in a virtual environment.  eTrainetc., LLC’s (eTrain) unique module tests knowledge and confidence.  This module is free based upon the generous sponsorship of several companies and organizations.

No CME Credits Available

COVID-19 Healthcare Practice Sustainability

The SARS-CoV-19 virus and its COVID -19 respiratory illness is having a devastating impact on the health of thousands of Americans.  What is being overlooked is the equally devastating effect the virus is having on healthcare practices. Virtually every clinical practice and practice setting are all experiencing empty waiting rooms and cancellations. The virus’ impact on people’s lives is disrupting the business side of healthcare practices. To effectively address this disruption requires business skills and immediate decisive action. This is the first of five (5) courses in the “Physician’s Survival Kit” program. The program is designed by physicians and business professionals who understand the challenges of running a practice.  This course delivers an immediate action plan followed by MBA level business skills courses necessary to stabilize and sustain your healthcare practice during the COVID-19 crisis. It also provides a solid foundation for managing and sustaining healthcare practices in the future.

2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

COVID-19 Pandemic Management 1.5 CME

The course presents the critical information that anyone and everyone needs to know about the COVID-19 virus. The information comes from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Johns Hopkins, and Oxford University. Information presented separates what is thought to be true from what is thought to be false. Topics cover: virus transmission, signs and symptoms of COVID-19, infection control measures for prevention, as well as how to protect yourself.

• Understand the transmission mechanism of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Coronavirus – 2. (SARS-CoV-2).
• Learn when someone with COVID-19 is contagious and when they are not.
• Discuss the clinical course of COVID-19 from infection to recovery.
• Know the origins, identification, emergence, and early spread of COVID-19.
• Comprehend infection control measures and their effectiveness.
• Appreciate the what and why of the measures being used to protect healthcare providers.
• Discuss prevention for yourself and those close to you.
• Discuss the signs and symptoms of COVID – 19, when they begin and when they end.
• Separate what is thought to be true, from what is thought to be is false.

1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Needle Safety: Human, Economic, Environmental

The course will demonstrate the effectiveness of education and training to reduce the incidence of needle accidents. It also introduces the concept of Clinical Practice Improvement (CPI), which confirms the most effective improvements come from those who do the work. In brief, the course details the necessary improvement activities to develop sustainable data-driven solutions, which reduce needle stick injuries in the workplace.

• Understand the provider’s role in improving needle safety in their organization.
• Describe the government’s role in regulating and enforcing needle safety.
• Evaluate needle safety improvements from a value-based care perspective.
• Discuss accidental needle stick protocols and post exposure prophylaxis.
• Know and understand the root cause for under reporting of needle stick injuries.
• Improve the medication injection process using the CPI methodology.
• Understand environmental impact analysis of injection processes and improvement goals.
• Appreciate the relationship between education and reduced incidence of needle stick injury.

1.25 AMA PRA Category 1.25 Credits™

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Take the first step to an exciting new career today! Our 12 week EMT course is designed to prepare students with the knowledge and skills they need to become excellent healthcare providers. Having an EMT certification can be the stepping stone to a career in many areas of healthcare. Students learn about anatomy & physiology, CPR, splinting & bandaging, patient assessments, and much more! Are you ready to make a difference and be prepared to save a life?

No CME Credits Available

Certified Nursing Assistant

The Nursing Assistant (CNA or LNA) is a vital part of the healthcare team. As a Nursing Assistant you will work closely and under the supervision of a Registered Nurse who will assign and supervise your work.

No CME Credits Available

Medication Compliance: Truth and Consequences 1.5 CME

This course brings attention to the epidemic of medication non-adherence. It also introduces clinical practice improvement techniques, proven successful in the corporate world, to offer a template under which every provider can improve medication compliance in their practice. By the time you earn your Johns Hopkins School of Medicine CME credits you will have acquired a new skill that can be used to solve wide ranging problems. You will also have a step by step recipe to improve non-adherence that is robbing your practice of time and resources and in turn robbing patients of their health.

The course is brought to you using a “virtual classroom” that can be accessed 24/7/365 on any device connected to the Internet using any network. Once enrolled it will never leave your account and will be updated as needed. A Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine CME certificate is available to you by download immediately upon completion of the class.

1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Healthcare Financial Communication 1.25 CME

This course will allow you to understand the financial information that is gathered in your practice so that you may allocate resources to better care for your patients. Financial decision making in your healthcare organization, no matter the size, has a major impact on the quality of care your patients receive. Before any decision can be made it is imperative to know what resources are available. The financial statements communicate this information to you. They provide actionable information which you can use to take an active role in the decision making process. With this CME activity, you will acquire the skill of understanding and evaluating the financial inner workings of your organization or the organization you may soon be joining. Purchasing new equipment, hiring another physician, budgeting, resource allocation, it all begins here with the financial statements. Good decision making begins with sound financial information. Pre and post testing, video presentations and interactive discussion with colleagues will enhance your learning.

1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Healthcare Budgets 1.25 CME

This course will take the mystery out of the budget in your organization and empower you to add your voice to how and where resources are allocated.  If you want to insure your patients get good care, involve yourself in the budget.  When those who see patients every day are allowed into the budget process, patient outcomes improve.

We begin with just enough healthcare accounting basics to allow you to understand where the budget numbers come from. Just like knowing the underlying cause of disease helps it treatment so does knowing the foundation of finance.  Then we unlock the budgeting process and give you the keys to the most powerful finance activity in healthcare.

Pre and post testing, video presentations and interactive discussion with colleagues will enhance your learning experience.

1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Business of Dentistry Pocket MBA Program 16.0 CME

We all know that business is part of healthcare practice and that every one of us, no matter the setting or specialty, is affected by business processes every day, often times adversely.  We also know that we have little formal training and no matter how smart and how long we have been in practice, there is no replacement for formal education.  Degree and certificate programs are available but certainly not accessible to the vast majority of us, too much time, too expensive.  Your practice is not getting any less complex so the time is now to learn what we should have acquired in dental school and residency.  This is the right knowledge at the right time and it it delivered to you on your phone at your own pace.   

16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The Business of Medicine Pocket MBA 16.0 CME

This program is designed by physicians, like you, to bridge the healthcare business knowledge gap.  We offer a 16 CME program a complete package of business sills for the front line healthcare professional.  This is relevant, need to know, and use today knowledge.   This is MBA level knowledge that will equip you well in your practice or prove to be a valuable asset if your career direction changes. 

4 Courses – $1070.00 value if purchased separately.

• Quality Leadership #1    4 CME
• Finance of Healthcare Practice  #2  4 CME
• Leading Improvement  #3  4 CME
• Business of Healthcare Leadership  #4  4 CME

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16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Finance Tools of Healthcare Leadership 4.0 CME

This course will give you the financial tools you need to make informed decisions. No money, no mission.  Every organization that loses money year after year eventually ceases to exist.  Quality Leadership is an organizational skill.  Yet one must also have tools with which to lead, just as a healthcare provider needs tools to practice.  One of the most important tools is a working knowledge of finance.  Managing revenue, and getting resources to the right place at the right time can have enormous consequences on patient outcomes.  This course will supply those skills so that you may go forth and use your leadership ability to its fullest extent.

4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Quality Leadership for Physicians 4.0 CME

Course #1 The Business of Physician Leadership Program – The goal of this course is to improve your leadership, which will improve how you relate to those you work with as well as improve the outcomes of your patients.  Contrary to common belief, good leadership is a learned quality.  Character traits of charisma and personal magnetism are not the same as good leadership.  All providers are leaders in their practice. It doesn’t matter whether you are in academics, employed by a hospital, or in private practice, the fact is, you lead every day!  Others look up to you and expect direction.  The manner in which you provide leadership will eventually affect the quality, safety and cost of the care you deliver to your patients.  This course will help you identify your present leadership style and then lead you to improve using the concept of “Quality Leadership” that has proven so successful in the corporate world.

4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Leading Healthcare Improvement 4.0 CME

This course will provide you with the skills to initiate and then lead activities that will improve the process in which you deliver care to your patients.  They will see better outcomes and you will see a better work process that is less frustrating, and time consuming.  You will employ data driven techniques common to the business world that really work.  The course is divided into three sections:

1. Tools of Improvement – You will be introduced to the tolls essential to the work that needs to be done.  From data handling to team and meeting management, they are tools that you can use immediately.
2. Clinical Practice Improvement – This is a step by step guide through identifying a problem, and creating sustainable solutions that work.
3. Short Cycle Improvement (PDSA)  – This is a step by step guide to quick improvement techniques featured in Medicare MIPS and most MOC programs.

4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™