In the State of California, Registered nurses are required by law to complete 30 contact hours of continuing education every two years. SJMC Medical Library has print and electronic resources available for our nurses to help meet their CE requirements.

• ClinicalKey for Nursing CE: Read Clinical Skills needed and earn CE credits. See the attached document below to follow the steps..
• CINAHL® Plus with Full Text CE: See the attached document below  to follow the steps.
• Medscape Nurse CE: Medscape, LLC ("Medscape") is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing nursing education
• UpToDate CE for Nurse Practitioner: Create and Log into your personal account first to be linked. UpToDate is also accredited by the American Association of NursePractitioners (AANP) to award NP CE contact hours.
• My FREE CE for Nurses:  Fee Based. No DH group plan is available.  ​​

• CSH National Nursing Patient Care Services: provoides you  with many nursing resources - the Professional Practice, Perioperative, and Elsevier pages are linked off this main site. 
• Profession Practice: provides NPPC council information, Practice Change Toolkits and links to published Standards of Practice.
• Elseveir Nursing Suite : provides links to Elsevier applications, information on our Monthly Collaboration call and our Elsevier Nursing Suite Toolkit.  The Toolkit contains information on Implementation (resources and Skills durable URLs for both CHI and Dignity Health), Downtime (pdfs of procedures and system policy Clinical-A009), Presentations with recording information, Tip Sheets and more. 
  • Monthly Collaboration Call on the third Thursday at 08:00 PT - Contact Alison Mason to be added to the invitaion list.
• 2023 Evidence Based Practice Educational Worshop Series: The Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Council hosted a series of five workshops to introduce evidence-based practice. The goal of these weekly presentations was to introduce topics related to defining, conducting, and disseminating EBP at CommonSpirit Health. 
  • Click the link of each session below,  watch the video (scroll down to the link) and claim 1.0 CNE
    • Overview of Evidence-Based Practice and Research Framework 
    • Searching the Literature
    • Research Design and Implementation
    • EBP Design and Implementation
    • Evaluation and Dissemination
• Nursing Excellence Showcase:  Monthly virtual showcase to highlight nursing research and evidence-based practice projects across CommonSpirit Health.It occurs the 3rd Thursday of each month at 3 pm ET | 2 pm CT | 1 pm MT | 12 pm PT (1 hour)
  • This month's speakers and presentation titles 

  • Register to attend Nursing Excellence Showcases here

• CSH Nursing Journal Club Toolkit (ppt): created by the Nurisng Research and Evidence Based Practice Council. 

• American Nurses Association Position Statements

• American Nurses Association Code of Ethics

• Nursing Practice Act: California Board of Registered Nursing

• ECRI Guidelines Trust

  Requires free account registration. Publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content.

• Best Practice Guidelines - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario

• AHRQ - EPC Evidence Reports

  Complete titles of released evidence reports, comparative effectiveness reviews, technical briefs, Technology Assessment Program reports, and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force evidence syntheses.

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Guidelines

• Canadian Medical Association - Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Cochrane Library

  Search Cochrane Reviews, Protocols and Clinical Answers.

• National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)

  The NCCN guidelines are FREE! Register for a free account, then click on the cancer types to display a drop down of options.

• Recommendations - US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)

• Veterans Affairs (VA) Clinical Practice Guidelines

• UpToDate

Selected specific new recommendations and/or updates that may change usual clinical practice. 

• American Heart Association Guidelines & Statements