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Course Sample:
NYSNA is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.
All ANCC accredited organizations' contact hours are recognized by all other ANCC accredited organizations. Most states with mandatory continuing education requirements recognize the ANCC accreditation/approval system. Questions about the acceptance of ANCC contact hours to meet mandatory regulations should be directed to the Professional licensing board within that state.
NYSNA has been granted provider status by the Florida State Board of Nursing as a provider of continuing education in nursing (Provider number 50-1437).
About the Author
Melissa K. Slate, RN
Melissa K. Slate has been a registered nurse for 12 years, 6 years of which have been spent in home health care nursing. Currently Ms. Slate serves as Medicare Coordinator and Director of Home Health Services for Special Touch Nursing Services in South Charleston, West Virginia.
Ms Slate has an Associate's Degree in Nursing from Southern West Virginia Community College in Logan, West Virginia, with additional studies in Nursing at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia.
Introduction
In an unnamed city, a well-known world leader is fighting his biggest battle; the battle is for his life. As he lies perilously close to death, doctors and nurses work frantically to try to save him. They cast worried glances at each other over tight fitting respirators. It appears they might lose the battle; meanwhile, inside the hospital, around the city, and over the globe others are dying in enumerable masses by the minute.
No, that is not a paragraph from the latest best selling medical thriller, but a possible real case scenario. The head of the World Health Organization predicted the next pandemic at a meeting in late November 2004. The culprit: avian Influenza. Health leaders throughout the world have been using words such as avian flu, pandemics, economic collapse, vast numbers dying in an extensive outbreak of a disease very few of us know about (WHO, 2005; CNN, December 13, 2004).
"One of the most powerful allies of human disease is human ignorance," writes David Dickson in a Science and Development Network article. In this continuing education course, ignorance regarding avian influenza will be attacked and nurses will be empowered with the knowledge to fight it.
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