Healthcare Workforce Continuing Education
Continuing education programs and activities for the current and future health and human services workforce. Both live and enduring transformative programs available to the public.
Programs
Ready to return to nursing? CCRI’s RN Refresher course is designed to build your confidence and update your clinical skills so you can get back to doing what you love—caring for patients. CCRI’s RN Refresher Course is endorsed by the Rhode Island Board of Nursing Licensure!
CE Credit: Nursing, Certificate of Completion
- Rolling Enrollment - Register Now!
- No charge for those who qualify!
Don’t let the NCLEX stand in your way. CCRI’s Empower RN course is flexible, online, and packed with expert support, NCLEX prep, and weekly optional Boost Sessions. Let's pass this time - together!
CE Credit: Certificate of Completion
- Register Now - Class Starts January 26, 2026!
- No charge for those who qualify!
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies and for personnel in emergency response. Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia Airway management Related pharmacology Management of ACS and stroke Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
CE Credit: ACLS Certification
- January 5, 2026
- $285.00
Gain knowledge and increase awareness and sensitivity of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
CE Credit: Nursing
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- Free!
Learn how to apply for Nursing Continuing Education Contact Hours through the Community College of Rhode Island's Approved Provider Unit of Nursing Continuing Professional Development. This activity is available to CCRI Nursing Faculty and RNs working at CCRI.
CE Credit: Nursing
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- Free!
Learn about how neurocognitive disorders impact behaviors related to dental care and skills that can be used to reduce care-resistant dental behaviors.
CE Credit: Nursing and Dental
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Gain knowledge about how to identify and screen for sleep apnea and sleep disordered breathing.
CE Credit: Nursing and Dental
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Learn about strategies to promote and positively impact oral health of the aging population.
CE Credit: Nursing and Dental
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- Free!
Gain knowledge about the need for dentures and how to provide education on the expectations of dentures and denture care.
CE Credit: Nursing and Dental
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Gain information about how oral health impacts the patient’s quality of life. Members of the healthcare team will learn of the physical and mental impact of cancer care on oral health-related quality of life, the challenges a person faces to achieving oral health, and resources available to healthcare professionals when working with clients and their families. Jointly provided by CCRI and the Partnership to Reduce Cancer in Rhode Island.
CE Credit: Nursing, Dental, and Social Work
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During this enduring continuing education activity, nurses and healthcare workers will learn about advanced directives and increase their confidence in advance care planning. Advance directives and advance care planning are both important to ensure patients' healthcare wishes are honored. This educational activity will provide education about how to have conversations about advance care planning, complete advance directive forms, and provide care that aligns with the patient's wishes regarding illness and end-of-life care.
CE Credit: Nursing
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Learn about trauma, secondary trauma, and the difference between the two terms. Learn about how trauma effects workplace relationships and the warning signs of a mental health crisis and risks for suicide. Review concepts of how to manage secondary traumatic stress and the ABCs of self-care, and learn about the goals of de-escalation, how to identify de-escalation tools, and local and community resources.
CE Credit: Certificate of Completion
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Learn about trauma, secondary trauma, and the difference between these two terms. Learn about how trauma effects college relationships and the warning signs of a mental health crisis and risks for suicide. Review concepts of how to manage secondary traumatic stress and the ABCs of self-care, and learn about the goals of de-escalation, how to identify de-escalation tools, and local and community resources.
CE Credit: Certificate of Completion
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Learn how to provide gender-affirming care, improve the patient-provider relationship, and recognize barriers faced by the transgender community.
CE Credit: Physicians and Nursing
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- Free!
Learn to provide nursing and health care to patients and clients in the community through a fully online interactive continuing education simulation that takes place in the home health setting.
CE Credit: Nursing
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- Free!
During this virtual, enduring continuing education activity, learn about the evidence base for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services, how autism and developmental disabilities impact both the client and their family, and steps you can take to provide an environment conducive to the safety and well-being of a client with autism and developmental disabilities.
CE Credit: Nursing, Dental, and Social Work!
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- Free!
Learn definitions and key terms related to trauma and trauma informed care, recognize warning signs of a mental health crisis and the risk factors for a mental health crisis, learn management techniques for a mental health crisis, and practice applying new knowledge to a case study.
CE Credit: Nursing, Social Work
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- Free!
Learn about dementia and how to provide dementia-friendly care in the home and community. Learn about validation therapy versus reality orientation, quality of life, and how to support caregiver wellness. Presented by CCRI Professor Donna Ashworth, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Gerontology.
CE Credit: Nursing
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- Free!
Learn about trauma, trauma informed care, and the impact trauma has on patients and clients. Gain knowledge of the prevalence and incidence of trauma, practical applications of trauma informed care, and how to avoid re-traumatization.
CE Credit: Nursing and Social Work
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- Free!
During this enduring, online presentation, learn about self-care and resiliency, the role of stigma in adopting self-care strategies, benefits of self-care and the costs of avoiding self-care, various strategies of self-care, and how to develop and apply your own self-care plan.
CE Credit: Nursing
- This program has ended. Thank you for making it a success!
- Free!
The Virtual Dementia Tour (VDT) enables community members to step into the shoes of those with dementia and gain an understanding of their experiences in order to better care for a person with dementia. This original, patented, evidence-based scientific method, a product of Second Wind Dreams, helps build a greater understanding of dementia through empathy and awareness in individuals caring for people living with dementia.
CE Credit: Certificate of Attendance - Ask about Nursing Contact Hours!
- July 15 and July 16, 2025
- Free!
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) teaches you how to assist and support others who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge. This evidence-based, early intervention course, administered by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, teaches the skills needed to recognize and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges as well as how to provide initial support until they are connected with appropriate professional help.
CE Credit: Certificate of Attendance
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* These activities are supported by funding from the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Healthcare Workforce Transformation Program
Questions?
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