Planners
• Patient Family Partner
• Practice Gap Information/Needs Assessment
• Evidenced Based Certified Continuing Education
• Evaluation/Outcomes
• Learning Objectives
• Active Learning Strategies
• California Laws
• Cultural and Linguistics Competency and Implicit Bias
• California BRN
• Course Evaluations
• Instructor Requirements
• Advertising Requirements
• Sign in sheets
• Implicit Bias
California BRN
The California BRN has very specific guidelines that can be found here.
Course Requirements
The program or course content must be relevant to both the educational needs of the registered nurse and health needs of the consumer. The content must be current and designed to include recent developments in the subject area being taught.
Course offerings must be at least one hour in length. If it is an academic course, the nurse must be enrolled for credit. The nurse must meet all class requirements.
Credit for completing part of a course (continuing education or academic) may NOT be granted. Thus if a person attending the course leaves before the course is over, they are not to be issued a certificate of completion. Some CEPs who offer multiple day courses often break the course into several segments and provide contact hours for each segment successfully completed.
Course Objectives
Course objectives describe measurable behaviors or outcomes the student will demonstrate or achieve upon completion. An example of a student' s behavioral objective or outcome is as follows: "Upon completion of this program, the nurse will be able to: a. Describe the latest treatment options used for patients with_____, b. Assess a patient for the three most common objective or subjective symptoms of _____, c. Evaluate the patient's response to treatment of _____, etc."Instructors' goals are not acceptable behavioral objectives or outcomes. For example:
"To inform the student about the latest advances in the treatment of patients with _____" is a goal of the instructor, not an instructional objective.
Providers are required to clearly state the overall course objectives or have a clear, concise course description in brochures and other advertisements so participants will know in advance what they can expect to learn.
Note: There are some tools available for download for you when you are completing the learning objectives section in the Highmarks CE application and in the resource section of this website (Link to resources)