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Online continuing Education courses offered
by the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO)
Welcome to RPNAO's eCourse series, the next step in our continuing commitment to promote healthier, happier, and more productive healthcare workplaces through lifelong learning, professional development, and increased understanding. Designed to help provide you with the soft skills (the human factors understanding) that will help you navigate and succeed in your workplace, these courses utilize powerful online learning methods to help maximize your success.
In addition to being more cost-effective, and allowing you to maintain your regular life and social network, online courses provide you with the flexibility to study on your own schedule, while maintaining the quality of the knowledge you receive.
These interactive eCourses will help you better function in the healthcare workplace, as you learn how to better interpret and integrate differing personalities and needs -- essentially, learning to be your own mediator. The knowledge and understanding you gain will empower you to resolve conflicts and lessen the stresses that rob you of your passion and job satisfaction. It unlocks the strengths within yourself, giving you the ability to contribute in the productive and innovative way you have always envisioned.
You may apply to the Nursing Education Initiative for eligibility of reimbursement for registration costs. For further information please contact us at
nei@rpnao.org.
Course Offerings:
Critical Thinking
Dr.
Jennifer McRobert.
Not all information is created equal! Through twelve hours of illustrated
audio lectures and interactive exercises, Professor McRobert explains Critical
Thinking and gives students experience in its practice. Participants in this
course will learn how to approach information critically and discriminate in a
principled way between opinions.
Multimedia Internet Course Features:
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Listening and viewing the online multimedia lectures with
audio and illustrative graphics.
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Reading concise lecture highlights & completing progress
quizzes at the end of each section.
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Participating in Discussion Groups to share information and
discuss course content.
The skills acquired will be useful to those who wish to produce well-reasoned
oral and written work of their own in any area. In addition, emphasis on the
development of critical skills in real life contexts means that skills learned
in this course will be useful in any program of study or career, in everyday
professional, political, and social decisions, and in just about every situation
in which new information is encountered.
Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
Randy Hoffman and Alan Saks
The study of organizational behaviour is the study of people within large and
small groups that may be formal or informal in nature. In this course, the
student will explore and examine the interrelationships of individual
personality and work, the characteristics of organizations and current
organizational theory. Included are consideration of the following topics:
Multimedia Internet Course Features:
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Listening and viewing the online multimedia lectures with
audio and illustrative graphics.
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Reading lecture highlights &
completing progress quizzes at the end of each section.
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Participating in Discussion Groups to share information, and
to discuss course content and case studies.
Upon the completion of this course, students will understand individual and
group behaviour within small and large organizations and understand how their
behaviour strongly influences organizational performance.
Human Resources Management
Monica Belcourt
Dr. Monica Belcourt is the author of Canada's best-selling textbook on the
subject. This course will help you understand how successful management of
people at work or in voluntary organizations can lead to better working
conditions and performance.
As you start this course, don't think of human resources management as
academic subject to be learned and forgotten, but as an important body of
knowledge to be used throughout your life. Everyone who is a coach, a volunteer
leader, or a manager needs knowledge and skills in the art and science of
managing people.
Multimedia Internet Course Features:
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Listening & viewing the online multimedia lectures
with audio and illustrative graphics.
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Reading concise lecture highlights & completing
progress quizzes at the end of each section.
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Using online study guide, leads students through
the readings and other resources.
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Participating in discussion groups to share
information and discuss course content.
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