We’d like to take this opportunity to wish each of you the Very Happiest and Safest of New Years!

We wish all of you the very best of Happy Holidays and good health for a coming New Year.

Remember the Reason for the Season.

Most of all, be safe when traveling to be with friends and family.

We want to take this time to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving, a safe journey, and a blessed time to spend with family and friends.

Healthcare is a 24/7 business. We know how tough it can be to work on holidays.

When you start to feeling a little blue just remember that this is the season to give thanks. Be thankful for what you have. Be thankful for those around you.

As we kick off the holiday season and all it brings, reflect on the Reason for the Season. Put the Thanks back into Thanksgiving and make a merry mark on your loved ones and patients giving others a Merry Christmas.

Recently we have seen countless sites touting to have free online nursing ceu’s – yet they are not free.

Why do the search results show these sites?

The answer is simple (and complicated). The word FREE is one of the most popular keywords used on the internet and on websites. Whether it is free or not is not the issue…the issue is by touting the word free the sites capture some of the highest internet traffic because people are looking for free stuff. In other words, it is what people are looking for. So, diverting that traffic to other sites is their goal…not actually providing free stuff.

We aim to provide you absolutely FREE continuing education for all medical professionals. Sometimes it is not easy to find even on our site as we list over 15,000 continuing education credits from more than 200 different sources.

Nursing is a large group of medical professionals. On our site, www.ceuq.com, nursing is actually our third most searched keyword term. Respiratory followed by Radiology have the most users on ceuq.com.

While we are happy to be useful to all medical professionals, we want to be the number one free continuing education site for ALL medical professionals. This is and has been our goal since inception and going live in 2005. Until we achieve that goal, we will not be happy.

If you are in a hurry (who isn’t?), look at the left menu and click on Recommendations: Quick Hits!. Here you will see some of the most popular search sites and topics. Look for the RN (Registered Nurse), RCP (Respiratory Care Practitioner), RAD (Radiology) or ALL (All Disciplines).

No matter what the issue is, feel free to contact us for all your needs, questions, and assistance in finding courses and credits particular to your needs and profession.

We can help. We will help.

For fastest assistance, email g [at] DogTales [dot] net.

Most of the time, comments submitted are pure spam. We eliminate that right off before it has a chance to be posted on our site.

One of the legitimate comments was drawing our attention to an earlier listing of North Carolina AHEC continuing education courses.

The link will take you to the full listing of both paid and free continuing education courses. We have had no problem logging in and completing courses ourselves.

To update that posting, here is a listing of all the current FREE continuing eduction courses from http://aheconnect.com

Performance Coaching for Healthcare Professionals

An Overview of Meaningful Use

Critical Access Hospitals: Challenges and Opportunities

Duke Mental Health Webinar 33: School Refusal Behavior in Children and Adolescents

Falls Prevention for Home Health Nurses

Financial Management Overview

ICARE: A. Managing Crisis Patients

ICARE: B. An Approach to the Sad or Irritable Child – Managing Pediatric Depression

ICARE: C. Alcohol Use and Abuse: Intervening Across the Continuum

ICARE: D. Office Based Approach to Adolescent Substance Abuse

ICARE: E. Prescription Medication Abuse – Skills for Prevention and Intervention

ICARE: F. Illicit Drugs of Abuse, A Clinician`s Guide

ICARE: I. Pediatric Bipolar Disorder

ICARE: J. The Challenges of Diagnosing and Treating Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care Settings

ICARE: K. Screening, Diagnosing, and Treating Adult Depression in Primary Care Settings

ICARE: L. The New AAP Autism Screening Guidelines

ICARE: M. The Case for and Types of Collaborative Models in Healthcare

ICARE: N. Maternal Depression and the Psychosocial Development of Children

ICARE: O. Making Shift Happen: A Motivational Interviewing Primer for Healthcare Professionals ICARE: P. Overview of Psychopharmacology

Improving Performance in Practice Series: A. Change Package Overview

Improving Performance in Practice Series: B. Measures and Statistics

Medical Home and Quality Training

Psychiatric Advance Directives: A Tool to Improve Care

State and Regional Medical Support Shelter Orientation Program

Treating the Invisible Wounds of War

Treating the Invisible Wounds of War (Spanish Edition)

TTIWW: A Primary Care Approach

TTIWW: Issues of Women Returning from Combat

TTIWW: Recognizing the Signs of mTBI during Routine Eye Examinations

Understanding Public Health Clinical Activites in North Carolina

Working with Interpreters in Healthcare

We hope and pray that everyone’s families are minimally impacted by Irene and its aftermath.

The catastrophic flooding that we are seeing on our television is disturbing and heart wrenching. From North Carolina up into parts of Canada, we see that this storm was more than just a rain maker and high winds.

Many are still without power and basic services. Some are literally cut off from other towns and villages.

With what I am sure is the world wide healthcare community and service providers, we wish you all a safe and speedy recovery from this disaster.

Featured provider: http://www.cardiocarelive.com/

Over 30 hours of FREE CEU/CE offered from Cardio Care Live, in conjunction with John Hopkins University. All are AACME approved, many specifically for Nurses and Nursing.

Courses are presented live on an almost daily basis. They also have many archived for you to attain at your leisure and pace.

A couple of notes about these courses/credits: Always look for the accrediting body. One in particular is to look for is American Academy of Continuing Medical Education (AACME). States and professions will differ on what credits they will accept. Look at your requirements closely. Yes, they may specify AACN for nurses or AARC for respiratory but nearly every state’s organization will accept AACME because that’s where accrediting starts. So look carefully.

You will need to sign up with the institutional provider. The sign up process is pretty straight forward. But getting to the CME/CE/CEU will try your patience. These are great courses but the navigation set up is very confusing and difficult at times.

So be patient and get your CE’s/CEU’s FREE!

30+ Hours Available On Demand: Login Now

The recent outbreak of violent storms and tornadoes have been devastating and deadly.

We are saddened, once again, to have to send along our condolences, thoughts and prayers to the people of Joplin, MO and other communities in the path of the storms.

One can only wonder how people can pick up the pieces and start anew.

Tough times don’t last…tough people do.

To our friends, family, and colleagues affected by the recent outbreak of tornadoes…We pray that you find comfort and peace in your life in this hour of need.

Just in! 28 mini webinars ALL FREE! from Duke University Mental Health. Each course carries at least 1.o CEU and it appears all are ANCC approved!

Gaining access is very easy. The course are part of a presentation by North Carolina Area Health Education Center (AHEC). Anyone can register for these courses, yes…even if you are not a resident of NC.

Simply go to www.aheconnect.com, register online for the courses, and that’s it! Of course you’ll have to register for the specific course you want to take. Plus, the AHEC site will keep track of all the CE’s/CEU’s you earn! As usual, before taking a course make sure it has the proper accrediting authority if you are taking for license renewal. Or just take the course for the sake of learning something new!

Here is a listing of the offering from Duke University/AHEC:

• Duke Mental Health Webinar 01: Overview of Sleep Disorders
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 02: Metabolic Problems in Patients on Antipsychotic Medications
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 03: Overview of Memory Impairment and Dementia
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 04: Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 05: Medical Management of Substance Abuse
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 06: ADHD in Children
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 07: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 08 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 09: Towards a Better Understanding of Bipolar Disorder
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 10: Making Shift Happen: A Motivational Interviewing Primer for Mental Health Professionals
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 11: Suicide Risk Assessment – has the Standard of Care Changed?
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 12: Effects of War on Military Families
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 13: Anxiety Disorders & Treatment
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 14: The Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 15: Alzheimer`s Disease: An Overview and Update
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 16: Neuroimaging in 2010 What Every Clinician Needs to Know
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 17: Update on Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 18: Typical Antipsychotics and Schizophrenia – The Brain and its Machinery
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 19: Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, and Metabolic Syndrome – What Psychiatrists Need to Know
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 20: Women Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Gender Specific Issues Faced Across the Deployment Cycle
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 21: The Treatment of Insomnia
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 22: Sexual Side Effects of Psychotropics in Males and Females
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 23: Treatment of Resistant Depression
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 24: Management of Comorbid Insomnia & Depression
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 25: Depression in Late Life: An Update
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 26: Intensive Outpatient Treatment of Substance Abuse
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 27: New & Promising Treatments for ADHD in Children
• Duke Mental Health Webinar 28: Borderline Personality and Emotion: Using Research to Improve Clinical Practice

What a fantastic line up of topics and a welcomed addition to CEUQ.com ALL FREE! continuing education course! And, it looks like a great listing of self help courses.

Remember, CEUQ.com strives to provide you the most up-to-date and most active listing of ALL FREE! continuing education courses and credits.
If you have or know of sources providing FREE continuing education for health professionals please contact us at Domains [at] DogTales.net.