Free Nursing Courses

Foundation of Nursing

Do you want to help sick and injured people? If so, then a career in nursing may suit you. From assessment to diagnosis, a nurse's critical labour can mean the difference between life and death. This nursing course helps you develop the necessary skills and...

Foundation of Nursing Practice

From birth to death, nurses help individuals, families, and communities achieve, recover, or maintain optimal health. The course explores the concepts behind the practice of nursing. The course also clarifies the different types of guidelines for nursing practice...

Diploma in mental health

This psychology diploma course covers a range of mental health issues. Raising public awareness of such issues has become an important global healthcare goal over the last several decades. We examine the causes, symptoms and treatments ...

Diploma in Nursing Leadership and Care Management

This free online nursing course overviews the most important elements of a nursing leader’s daily role. The nursing profession has evolved significantly over the years. Today, professional nurses are also team leaders and healthcare teachers...

Health and Safety for Social and Health Workers

Learn about the health safety principles that social and health care workers should be aware of. This course will discuss the main roles and responsibilities of health and social care workers that they will encounter in their careers as well as other duties and principles...

Diploma in Nutrition, Therapeutics and Health

This free online nutrition diploma course will introduce you to recommended dietary allowances, classes of nutrients, units of energy, energy requirements, and the major and trace minerals. Start the course and learn about nutritional science, disorders, meal planning ...

Diploma in Health Studies

This free online Diploma in Health Studies course will give you a comprehensive understanding of diet and nutrition, important global health-related subjects, and their impacts worldwide. With poor health and diet issues continuing to affect millions of people around...

Safe Handling and Administration of Medication

Health professionals require training to safely handle and administer medications to protect the patients in their care from the dangers posed by mishandled medical drugs. This course explores the safety procedures used in medicine management to provide you with these important medical...

Nursing Studies - Patient Care and Hygiene

This free online Nursing Studies course from Alison covers patient care and hygiene. A nursing team is responsible for protecting the patient from any additional injury or illness. With this course, you will learn proper techniques for completing these duties....

The Nurse as Team Leader and Teacher

This free online Nursing Studies course focuses on the nurse as a team leader and teacher. The essential role of a nurse as a caregiver is well recognized, but the modern nurse can also be a team leader. With this course, you will gain an overview of the main roles nurses hold ...

Nursing Studies - The Physical Examination

This free online Nursing Studies course will teach you how to carry out the most important functions and roles of a modern nurse. You will be shown how the nursing professional can best support both the patient and the physician during physical examinations and ...

Customer Service Skills Within Healthcare

Healthcare is a customer service industry and excellent service plays a key role in restoring patients to health and defining their expectations. The sensitive nature of medical interactions makes patient customer service training imperative.

Introduction to Design Thinking for Nurses

Design Thinking is a framework to generate innovative solutions through creative problem solving. It involves five stages: Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test.

Design Thinking for Health

Nurses are natural innovators, and nurse innovators are more crucial now than ever before. Nurses are on the front lines of health care, and this affords them enormous opportunities to use innovation to improve health and well-being, design and create new approaches to care ...

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Nurses

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing many aspects of our lives, including the way we work. This artificial intelligence course equips you with an understanding of AI and its professional uses and implications. We explore the fundamentals of AI and provide strategies you...

Introduction to Nursing Informatics

Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.

Introduction to Nursing Innovation

Innovations within nursing are all-encompassing, from new devices and tools to streamlined processes and workflows.

Introduction to Health Informatics

Public health informatics is the systematic application of data, technology, and information systems to public health practice and research. Focusing on community and population health, it tackles disease treatment and prevention as well as examining the role of government...

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