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Adapted by AhaSlides from Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN) textbooks by Chippewa Valley Technical College, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Each course page names its source chapter, the licence and the changes made. Open RN does not endorse AhaSlides. 29 ready-made templates so far, each with a self-paced course, a live session deck and two surveys.

29 templates · Templates are a starting point, not legal advice

Templates

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Mood and anxiety disorders for nurses and care teams

    Nurses and care staff

    Covers:
    • Describe the main types of depressive, bipolar and anxiety disorders
    • Recognise warning signs that need prompt escalation
    • Explain what nurses monitor and teach for antidepressants

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Chest tube drainage: Monitoring and troubleshooting

    Registered nurses on acute wards

    Covers:
    • Describe what the collection, water seal and suction control chambers do
    • Carry out start-of-shift and ongoing checks on a closed drainage system
    • Recognise air leaks, lost drainage and heavy bleeding, and escalate

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    40 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Nursing Professional Development

    Patient advocacy for nurses: From the bedside to policy

    Nurses

    Covers:
    • Define advocacy and name its levels
    • Give practical examples of bedside advocacy for a patient and family
    • Describe how to raise a concern through the right route

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Nursing Professional Development

    Interprofessional collaboration: Roles, communication and conflict

    Teams and managers working across roles

    Covers:
    • Describe the four core competencies of interprofessional collaboration
    • Explain why clear roles matter in a team
    • Use ISBARR and closed-loop communication to hand over information

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    40 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Quality and evidence-based practice for nurses

    Registered nurses

    Covers:
    • Give the ANA definition of quality
    • Name the main ways quality is measured and rewarded
    • Use the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle on a simple problem such as falls

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Nursing Professional Development

    Mental health foundations for health care teams

    Health care teams

    Covers:
    • Describe the mental health continuum
    • Name stigma and one action to reduce it
    • Describe the stress response, coping styles

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    40 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Psychosis and personality disorders: Recognise and respond

    Nurses and nursing students

    Covers:
    • Describe the three personality disorder clusters
    • Recognise psychosis, delirium and schizophrenia and how they differ
    • Explain what mental status findings to look

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Community health needs and vulnerable populations

    Community

    Covers:
    • Describe community health nursing roles and common barriers
    • Explain how social determinants of health
    • Recognise which groups are vulnerable

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Psychotropic medicines: Classes, monitoring and safe administration

    Nurses and nursing students

    Covers:
    • Name the main antidepressant classes and their key risks
    • Recognise serotonin syndrome and hypertensive crisis
    • Describe safe monitoring and teaching for lithium and benzodiazepines

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Nursing Professional Development

    Sleep and rest: Supporting patients' sleep in care settings

    Ward

    Covers:
    • Describe why sleep matters for brain function, physical health
    • Name the main sleep disorders and their signs
    • Assess a patient's sleep using the five key characteristics

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Patient safety fundamentals: Culture, reporting and everyday risks

    Nurses and care staff

    Covers:
    • Define never events, sentinel events and near misses
    • Explain just culture and the three types of behaviour
    • Name the safety goals for nursing care centres and use two identifiers

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    40 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Bedside skills: Manual blood pressure and mental status

    Nurses and care staff

    Covers:
    • Describe what a blood pressure reading is and the main categories
    • Take a manual blood pressure in the right sequence
    • Assess level of consciousness, orientation

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    40 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Health care economics for nurses: Costs to staffing

    Nurses

    Covers:
    • Explain why health care costs rise, using the trends named in the course
    • Tell Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance and self-pay apart
    • Describe fee-for-service and Pay for Performance

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Trauma, abuse and violence for nurses: Recognise and respond

    Nurses and care staff

    Covers:
    • Describe adverse childhood experiences
    • Use the principles of trauma-informed care in everyday interactions
    • Recognise signs of child and older adult abuse and neglect

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Nursing Professional Development

    Scope of practice: What nurses and care staff may and may not do

    Newly hired nurses and care staff

    Covers:
    • Explain who sets the rules and standards that shape nursing practice
    • Describe the roles of providers, nurses
    • Recognise legal and ethical risks such as negligence

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Fluids and electrolytes for nurses: Spot the signs early

    Ward

    Covers:
    • Explain how fluid moves between body compartments and what regulates it
    • Describe how isotonic, hypotonic and hypertonic IV solutions behave
    • Recognise signs of common electrolyte and acid-base imbalances

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Spiritual care in nursing: Assess, listen, support

    Nurses

    Covers:
    • Define spirituality and spiritual distress in plain words
    • Ask open spiritual assessment questions using the FICA or HOPE prompts
    • Spot spoken cues of spiritual distress and decide

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Nursing Professional Development

    Medicines by body system: Classes, effects and nursing checks

    Nurses and senior care staff

    Covers:
    • Describe how medicines act on the autonomic nervous system
    • State the key nursing checks for digoxin, diuretics and anticoagulants
    • Recognise lithium and opioid safety points

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    45 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    How medicines work: Kinetics, dynamics and the therapeutic window

    Nurses and senior care staff

    Covers:
    • Describe absorption, distribution, metabolism
    • Explain what agonist and antagonist drugs do at a receptor
    • Use onset, peak and duration to think about

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    35 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Clinical Skills Training for Nurses

    Medication law and ethics: Duties, controlled drugs and error prevention

    Nurses and senior care staff

    Covers:
    • Link the ANA Code of Ethics provisions to everyday medicine tasks
    • Place a drug in a controlled-substance schedule category
    • Name the Joint Commission and CMS expectations for orders, five rights

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    40 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

  • Global

    Nursing Professional Development

    Nursing physical assessment: Health history and head-to-toe checks

    Newly qualified

    Covers:
    • Take a structured health history and a general survey
    • Follow the order of a focused cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal
    • Tell expected from unexpected findings and know when to escalate

    Last reviewed Nov 2026

    Adapted from Open RN

    45 minCourse · Live deck · 2 surveys

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