CEU
Workshop Courses
CEU Workshop course list (requires live-in person or live-online sessions)
Clinical Measuring Course (CEU – 3 hours of CE credit towards recertification)
Measuring weight, height, rectal temperature, axillary temperature, oral temperature, tympanic temperature, temporal temperature, radial pulse, respirations, blood pressure, and O2.
Physical Examination Course (CEU – 6 hours of CE credit towards recertification)
Basic instruments and supplies: percussion hammer, tuning fork, nasal speculum, otoscope and audioscope, ophthalmosope, examination light, stethoscope, penlight. Specialized exam instruments: headlight or mirror, laryngoscope, vaginal speculum, anoscope, proctoscope, sigmoidoscope. Examination Techniques: inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation. Room preparation, patient preparation, assisting the physician, post examination. Examination format: head and neck, eyes and ears, nose and sinuses, mouth and throat, chest, breasts, and abdomen, genitalia and rectum, legs, reflexes, posture, gait, coordination, balance and strength.
Sterilization and Surgical Instruments Course (CEU – 6 hours of CE credit towards recertification)
Principles and practices of surgical asepsis: sterilization methods, surgical instruments: forceps, scissors, scalpels and blades, towel clamps, probes and directors, retractors. Care and handling of surgical instruments. Storage and record keeping. Maintaining surgical supplies.
Assisting with Minor Office Surgery Course (CEU – 6 hours of CE credit towards recertification)
Preparing and maintaining a sterile field, opening sterile surgical packs, using sterile transfer forceps, adding sterile solution to a sterile field. Preparing the patient for minor office surgery, patient instructions and consent, positioning and draping, preparing the patient’s skin, applying sterile gloves, applying a sterile dressing, changing an existing sterile dressing, changing an existing sterile dressing, assisting with excisional surgery, assisting with incisional surgery, assisting with incision and drainage, wound closure, removing sutures, removing staples. Assisting with local anesthetics, specimen collection, electrosurgery, laser surgery, and cleaning the examination table and operative area.
MA Pharmacology and Medications Course (CEU – 6 hours of CE credit towards recertification)
Legal regulations from FDA and DEA, classifications of drugs, drug actions and interactions, prescriptions. Preparing and administering medications, safety guidelines, correct administration, systems for measurement, routes of administration: oral forms of medications, sublingual, and buccal, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, incident report. Injection equipment and terminology, types of injections, Principles of IV Therapy. Instilling eye medication, instilling ear medication, instilling nasal medication.
Pulmonary Specialty Clinical Practice Course (CEU – 6 hours of CE credit towards recertification)
Common respiratory disorders, respiratory system cancers, physical examination of the respiratory system, sputum culture and cytology, chest radiography, bronchoscopy, pulmonary function tests, arterial blood gases, pulse oximetry, instructing patients to use the peak flowmeter, performing a nebulized breathing treatment, collect a sputum specimen, perform a pulmonary function test.
Cardiology Specialty Clinical Practice Course (CEU – 6 hours of CE credit towards recertification)
Common disorders of the cardiovascular system, disorders of the heart and blood vessels, common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures: physical examination of the cardiovascular system, electrocardiogram, Holter monitor, chest radiography, cardiac stress test, echocardiography, catheterization and coronary arteriography.