STTI Membership has many benefits. One of the benefits can be used in the comfort of your own home. Did you know that your STTI membership dues include access to 30 downloadable CE courses? These credits hours are worth hundreds of dollars and they are easy to access through www.nursingknowledge.org.
Contact hours vary by course and you can work through them at your own pace. Many of the courses are set up as modules that allow concepts to build on each other to get a comprehensive foundation and thorough breadth of knowledge of your topic. For example, the Surviving Your First Years as a Nurse Program focuses on subjects important to nurses entering the field or changing roles with advanced degrees.
The course teaches nurses how to be effective in their new positions, how to navigate ethical and legal challenges they face from administration and at the bedside, how to stay current with legislative changes that effect nursing, using social media in a nursing career and the overall focus of nursing as a career.
The courses include these topics: Transitioning from Student to Professional Nurse Legal Risks as a Nurse Dealing with Difficult Patients and Families Advancing Your Nursing Career Incivility in Healthcare: Understanding Disruptive Colleagues Social Media for Health Care Providers The Future of Nursing: What the IOM Reports Means to Me Courses can be purchased individually or separately.
Completed together the Surviving Your First Years as a Nurse Program courses are 31.7 contact hours . Again there is no additional cost for this and other "free" CE because it is a benefit of being an STTI member. In addition to the free CE there are many other CE programs available in this delivery format that can be purchased through www.nursingknowledge.org website. Please check out what is available.