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24 10, 2018

Diabetes: The Difference Between Type I and Type II

2018-10-09T21:02:33-07:00October 24th, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Classes, Education|Tags: |

This week's edition of the Heartbeat Blogs will re-visit some of our content on diabetes and help you teach your patients the difference between type I and type II. Diabetes: The Difference Between Type I and Type II We all know someone with diabetes. In fact, according to the CDC, almost 10% of the US population has diabetes. You may have heard the term “Type I” and “Type II” diabetes. There is actually a big difference between the two. One [...]

17 10, 2018

How to Prevent Urinary Tract Infections in the Elderly

2025-11-18T19:24:06-08:00October 17th, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Career Programs, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue our discussion on urinary tract infections, also known as UTIs. Our upcoming lecture series “Urinary Tract Infections in the Elderly” begins soon, so don’t forget to check our CNA courses to see when it’s up. […]

10 10, 2018

Helping Patients with Urinary Tract Infections

2019-12-30T13:23:23-08:00October 10th, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Career Programs, Classes, Education, Nurses Corner|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will begin a discussion on urinary tract infections as a precursor to our upcoming lecture series on “The CNA role in identifying patients at risk for a UTI.” […]

26 09, 2018

Understanding Congestive Heart Failure

2018-09-12T06:17:42-07:00September 26th, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to discuss our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Today we will continue our discussion on heart failure. Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure: Why So Congested? Have you ever heart the term congestive heart failure? Does it make you wonder why the heart is so congested? As we learned last week, when a person has heart failure the heart is not as effective [...]

19 09, 2018

Promoting Heart Health: Understanding Heart Failure

2018-09-12T06:18:07-07:00September 19th, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to discuss our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Today’s we will define and discuss heart failure. Heart Failure: Why is the Heart Failing? Heart failure is a very common disease. According to the CDC, 5.7 million individuals in the U.S. have heart failure, and about half of these individuals newly diagnosed with heart failure die within five years of receiving their diagnosis. [...]

12 09, 2018

Promoting Heart Health and Understanding Heart Disease

2018-09-12T06:18:26-07:00September 12th, 2018|Categories: Career Programs, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to discuss our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Today’s discussion will focus on helping us understand the meaning of heart disease. Heart Disease: Is it a Disease? According to the CDC, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. About 1 in 4 individuals die from heart disease. That’s a staggering and frightening number. But what is [...]

6 09, 2018

Continuing Education: Learning the Difference Between Heart Attacks and Cardiac Arrest

2018-09-06T05:34:58-07:00September 6th, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Career Programs, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to discuss our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Today’s discussion will focus on the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest.  It is important to know that one can lead to the other—a heart attack can cause cardiac arrest if untreated and severe—, but they are not synonymous.  The Difference Between a Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest Heart attacks are scary, [...]

29 08, 2018

Heart Attack Causes and Symptoms

2018-08-29T05:51:55-07:00August 29th, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Career Programs, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to discuss our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Remember why recognizing heart attack causes and symptoms is important: heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. Last week focused on prevention, specifically modifiable risk factors for heart disease. This week will focus on the pathophysiology of heart attacks and symptom recognition. Pathophysiology (what [...]

22 08, 2018

Promoting Heart Health in our Patients

2018-08-24T08:34:08-07:00August 22nd, 2018|Categories: Advanced Nursing, Career Programs, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will begin to discuss one our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Did you know that heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women United States? Roughly 610,000 people die of heart disease in the US every year--that equates to one out of every four deaths! Sadly, despite many risk factors that can be modified or eliminated, approximately 735,000 [...]

16 08, 2018

Simple Steps to Saving Lives Part 3

2018-08-15T15:10:12-07:00August 16th, 2018|Categories: Career Programs, Classes, Education|

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to explore one of our upcoming courses, Infection Control Guidelines for Long Term Care Facilities. As promised this week we are back with a blog discussing standard precautions to protect both you and your patients. This week we will be using the following eight scenarios to help teach what types of personal protective equipment (PPE) should be required to keep both you and your patients safe. Take a minute [...]

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