Education

Online Continuing Education

Purpose
The primary goals of ARN continuing nursing education are to increase awareness of new trends in rehabilitation health care and to support the continued growth of the specialty of rehabilitation nursing and individual nurses. Individual activity objectives can be accessed by logging on to each posstest.

Objectives
Each article will have relevant objectives, but the overall objective for this educational activity is to provide rehabilitation nurses with the opportunity for learner-directed continuing education that will benefit their clinical practice and thus their patients and their families.

Activity Audience
This independent study offering is appropriate for all rehabilitation nurses.

Continuing Education Credit
Each article provides 1 nursing contact hour.

The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Disclosure
A staff member, volunteer (committee member or RNJ author), or family member who has an affiliation with a commercial company must declare that relationship in advance of involvement with an education activity that could be used as a forum to promote the interest of that company and its products.

If there are any disclosures to report, they will be indicated in the individual activity.

Off-Label Use
Any articles containing off-label use will be indicated.

Here's How It Works
These journal articles offer one nursing contact hour each. You may complete all the articles from each issue or only one or two.

Please note the expiration date for each set of articles. The expiration date is different for each volume of the journal.

Earning contact hours on-line is easy:

1. Select an article(s) below.
2. Prepare to answer the posttest questions online. You'll find a link to the posttest questions at the beginning of each article.
3. Answer the posttest questions and submit them for grading.
4. Login/register and make payment (only $9 per contact hour).
5. Please take a few minutes to complete the evaluation form after passing the test.
6. Print contact hour certificate from your browser.

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2006 Index of Articles

November/December 2006
Volume 31 Number 6

Expiration date: December 31, 2008

Best Practice in the Assessment and Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Physical Restraint Reduction in the Acute Rehabilitation Setting: A Quality Improvement Study

Spiritual Care: Practical Guidelines for Rehabilitation Nurses

September/October 2006
Volume 31 Number 5

Expiration date: October 31, 2008

Managing Problem Behaviors Associated with Dementia

Caregiver Strain and Caregiver Burden of Primary Caregivers of Stroke Survivors with and without Aphasia

Fatigue After Stroke: Relationship to Mobility, Fitness, Ambulatory Activity, Social Support, and Falls Efficacy