Nursing

Course Summary

Child care nurse consultants (CCNC) are RNs who provide on-site consultation, training, and technical assistance to early childhood care and education providers. The ITPCCNC is the required initial training program for CCNCs and the purpose of the course is to expand the RN’s knowledge and skills to work with early childhood care and education providers.

Intended Audience

Registered Nurses

Learning Objectives:

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Pre-requisites/Learning Level

No pre-requisites

Competencies addressed

Analytical/Assessment Skills, Policy Development/Program Planning Skills, Communication Skills, Cultural Competency Skills, Community Dimensions of Practice Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Financial Planning and Management Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

CEUs Offered

Iowa Board of Nursing #94 124 contact hours

Cost

$200

Modality/format

Online Self-Pace

Length

124 hours

Presenter(s) and/or Content Experts

Heidi Hotvedt, RN BSN

Technical requirements:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader 
• Flash Player 
• Speakers

Registration requirements

Register a free account

Creation and/or update

September 1, 2018

• 100.01 Define Problem
• 100.11 Data Illumination
• 100.43 Identify Public Health Responsibility
• 100.45 Public Health and Health Care

• Core functions and essential services of public health
• Population based public health nursing
• History of public health nursing
• Public health system in Missouri
• Minnesota Model of Population-Based Nursing Interventions

Iowa Training Project for Childcare Nurse Consultants

• XD08 Describe the nurses' role in emergency response in a range of emergencies that might arise.
• 461.08t Identify limits to own knowledge, skill, and authority, and identify key resource for referring matters that exceed these limits.
• 461.06t Recognize unusual events that might indicate an emergency and describe appropriate action
• 461.04t Describe the chain of command in emergency response.
• 461.02t Describe his/her functional role(s) in emergency response.
• Describe the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and its major components
• Describe unified management in a multi-agency unified emergency response.

The purpose of the lecture will be to describe and illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the press's handling of science, and, in particular, medicine. The focus will be on newspapers, not television. Emphasis will be placed on journalistic views and methods that sometimes lead to misrepresentation of scientific information.

About This Program:

The "Foundational Public Health Nursing Training Program" was designed to address key knowledge, skills, and abilities public health nursing coordinators/supervisors must apply to demonstrate the core public health nursing competencies and to deliver the essential public health services at a local level. This program meets the educational requirements stated in the definition of a "Public Health Coordinator/Supervisor," in the Iowa Administrative Code, Chapter 80 on Local Public Health Services.

Program Content:

There are five courses in this program:

In each course participants will: (a) review the content provided; and (b) complete and submit the Post-test. Participants will also complete the practice activities/exercises provided in each course. These practice exercises provide an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills presented in these modules and to better understand the material.

Program Certificate

A program certificate of completion is awarded on successful completion of the above five courses.