LPN Topics
This is a hybrid educational activity.
Learners attending this activity will expand their nursing knowledge and skills beyond current practice. Continuing Professional Development is central to nurses’ lifelong learning and constitutes a vital aspect for keeping nurses’ knowledge and skills up to date.
Target Audience
This program is designed for licensed practical nurses.
Learning Objectives
- describe Geisinger Comprehensive Stroke Center guidelines and performance measurements
- identify the difference between moral distress and compassion fatigue
- identify factors that influence your own professional quality of life
- identify two ways in which you can improve your professional quality of life and/or your resilience
- discuss the support groups available for trauma survivors and their families and how to get involved in them
- summarize Licensed Practical Nurse Scope of Practice Guidelines
- identify Professional Development Opportunities for Licensed Practical Nurses
- define sexual assault
- summarize sexual assault prevention strategies
- identify resources available for victims of sexual assault
- state the purpose of the K9 program and specialized K-9 skills
Location information
This program will be held at the Henry Hood Center for Health Research which is located on the Geisinger campus in Danville, Pennsylvania (Montour County), Exit 224 on Interstate 80. Routes 11 and 54 also intersect in Danville.
Virtual information
This conference will be a virtual education activity using Microsoft TEAMS. When you register for this activity and select virtual participation, the Microsoft TEAMS link will be sent to you one week prior to the conference.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
Available Credit
- 6.00 ANCC
- 6.00 Participation Credit