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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.

For many nurses practicing today, poliomyelitis may seem like a disease found primarily in history books. Widespread vaccination dramatically changed the impact of polio in the United States—but understanding this disease remains relevant to nursing practice.

Nurses may encounter patients who survived polio decades ago and continue to live with its long-term effects. At the same time, poliovirus continues to require global surveillance and public health attention, making a working knowledge of the disease valuable for healthcare professionals.

Pedagogy Education's Poliomyelitis Education Package brings together two online nursing courses designed to provide a broader understanding of polio—from the disease itself to the unique healthcare needs of those who survived it.

Peripheral IV therapy is one of the most common clinical procedures performed in healthcare—but common does not mean simple. Standards evolve, technology advances, and recommendations for vascular access, infection prevention, catheter management, and complication prevention continue to change.

That is why Pedagogy Education has redesigned and improved one of our cornerstone IV therapy courses.

Introducing the NEW & IMPROVED
Peripheral IV Therapy: Current Standards of Practice

Our updated 6-hour online course was redesigned with one goal in mind: make high-quality IV education more current, engaging, and efficient for today’s healthcare professional.

More streamlined doesn't mean less education. It means more efficient education.

Instead of lengthy blocks of text and unnecessary repetition, the course presents clinically important information in a concise, easy-to-navigate format that helps learners focus on what they need to know and apply in practice.

If you are an LPN or LVN who wants to perform IV therapy, you have probably searched for an “IV certification course.”

But what exactly does it mean to become IV certified?

The answer is not as simple as it might sound.

In fact, “IV certification” is often an informal term rather than an actual license or certification issued by a State Board of Nursing. Requirements for LPNs and LVNs vary significantly from state to state, and completing an IV therapy course does not automatically mean that every IV procedure becomes part of your scope of practice.

Understanding the difference between IV education, competency, and scope of practice can help clear up much of the confusion.