Healthcare News

Are your nurses prepared to support your facility's Antibiotic Stewardship Program?

Antibiotics save lives, but their inappropriate use can lead to serious consequences, particularly among vulnerable older adults residing in long-term care (LTC) facilities. Antibiotic resistance, adverse drug reactions, and Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections are significant concerns in nursing homes, making antibiotic stewardship an essential component of resident safety and quality care.

For long-term care facilities, antibiotic stewardship is more than a clinical recommendation. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to maintain an Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) as part of their infection prevention and control program.

Educating nursing staff about appropriate antibiotic use is an important part of meeting these expectations.

Pedagogy Education's online course, Antibiotic Stewardship Training for Long-Term Care Facilities, provides practical education designed specifically for the challenges encountered in nursing homes and other long-term care settings.

Early recognition saves lives. Is your nursing staff prepared to recognize the warning signs of a myocardial infarction?

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death in the United States, and myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is one of its most serious manifestations.

For nurses working in hospitals, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation centers, outpatient clinics, and other healthcare settings, recognizing the early signs of a myocardial infarction can make a critical difference in patient outcomes.

Whether you are a nurse seeking to strengthen your clinical knowledge or a facility administrator responsible for staff education, continuing nursing education in cardiovascular assessment and emergency recognition is an important investment in patient safety.

Pedagogy Education's online course, Myocardial Infarction: Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment, provides an opportunity for nurses to refresh their knowledge of this potentially life-threatening cardiovascular emergency.

A healthier workplace begins with education, awareness, and a commitment to change.

Healthcare professionals dedicate their careers to caring for others. Yet, behind the scenes of hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, and other healthcare settings, a troubling issue continues to affect the very people entrusted with providing that care: workplace bullying.

Bullying in healthcare is more than an uncomfortable workplace interaction. It can contribute to employee burnout, poor communication, increased turnover, and an organizational culture where staff members may hesitate to speak up about patient safety concerns.

For nurses, healthcare administrators, and organizational leaders, recognizing and addressing workplace bullying is an important step toward creating a healthier, safer, and more productive healthcare env

For nurses caring for patients receiving hemodialysis, vascular access is a critical part of treatment. When that access is a central venous catheter (CVC), understanding its risks and care requirements becomes especially important.

Every dressing change and catheter-care encounter calls for informed, consistent practice. But how recently have you reviewed the specific considerations for a hemodialysis catheter?

Pedagogy Education’s new course, Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheters: Risk Reduction Strategies, offers licensed nurses a focused opportunity to revisit these responsibilities and strengthen their knowledge.

Gamma globulin therapy brings together medication administration, careful observation, and patient education. Understanding why a patient needs treatment—and what to watch for during it—helps nurses provide informed, attentive care.

For nurses looking to strengthen that knowledge, Pedagogy’s All About Gamma Globulin course explores indications, administration, adverse events, patient education, and documentation. Here is an introduction to those topics.

A patient needs discharge instructions explained again. A family member asks whether a loved one’s forgetfulness is normal. An older adult shares concerns about changes in memory.

These conversations invite nurses to look beyond the immediate task and consider how patients understand, remember, and use information. Learning more about cognition can provide valuable context for patient education and conversations with families.

Providing high-quality education for healthcare professionals is essential—but coordinating courses, tracking completion records, managing compliance, and accommodating busy clinical schedules can quickly become complicated.

Pedagogy Education helps healthcare organizations simplify that process with nationally accredited online continuing education and in-service training for nurses, certified nursing assistants, and other healthcare professionals.

Whether you represent a hospital, long-term care facility, home health agency, pharmacy, college, university, or technical institution, our flexible education solutions can help you support staff development while reducing the administrative burden placed on your organization.

Central venous access devices are essential tools in modern healthcare—but caring for them safely requires current knowledge, sound clinical judgment, and close attention to detail.

That is why we are excited to introduce the newly rewritten and streamlined Central Lines: Current Standards of Practice course from Pedagogy Education.

The course has been thoughtfully reorganized to make complex central-line concepts clearer, more focused, and easier to apply. Nurses receive a practical learning experience that moves logically from CVAD fundamentals through assessment, maintenance, complication management, removal, documentation, and patient education.

As more clients seek thoughtful, integrative approaches to health and well-being, holistic practitioners need techniques that complement both traditional wisdom and contemporary practice. Gua Sha offers exactly that connection.

Rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gua Sha involves applying controlled pressure to the body with a specialized tool. Although the technique has a long history, it continues to attract interest among practitioners exploring supportive approaches to concerns such as discomfort, circulation, and inflammation.

Pedagogy Education’s online Foundation in Gua Sha course introduces this respected modality through a combination of cultural context, clinical reasoning, and practical instruction.