Posted:
Monday, November 8th, 2010
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B2B, Healthcare
Nursing professionals must take continuing education courses every so often to maintain their license and keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date. Online continuing education is fast becoming the prime choice among licensed nurses who neither have the time nor money to take traditional classroom courses.
Healthcare professionals prefer to take their continuing education online because of its many advantages. The interactive nature of Web-based training programs enables students to learn better and faster. With online education, you won’t experience the usual hassles that come with attending seminars and classroom-based courses. Online courses can also help get you in the same pace as new graduates who have acquired advanced healthcare education.
Online nursing continuing education classes are not that hard to find. For as long as you have a computer with an Internet connection, you need not break a sweat in searching for healthcare programs. Just make sure that the learning provider you choose is credible and approved by your state. If you want to check the accreditation history of your program provider, you can look the information up on the Web site of the US Department of Education. It is advisable to do this because there are some online healthcare schools out there that do not have approval to operate.
As a nursing professional, you should keep your license current. Failing to renew your license properly and on time can have some serious repercussions on your career, such as facing disciplinary action from the state review board. Fortunately, with online courses you can complete your continuing education in no time. Even employers these days prefer that their employees take Web-based courses for a more cost-efficient and well-monitored training. With the use of the learning management system, employers can track the progress of their employees as the latter are taking courses.
In a time where job competition is fierce, you must do everything to become the best in your field. If you want to secure your position in the healthcare industry, fulfilling your continuing education will enable you to do exactly that—and more. Online training programs can give you the knowledge and information you need to be proficient in your job and advance in your career.
learninsurance.com strengthens its position as the premier insurance licensing and continuing education portal with the updated online Texas Adjuster License course.
As more professionals make that transition to the insurance industry, learninsurance.com—powered by 360training.com, a leading provider of e-Learning solutions—continues to offer exceptional insurance and adjusters educational courses that cater to professionals in the insurance industry. Utilizing the latest technologies and multimedia, learninsurance.com’s online courses are very interactive and easy-to-follow. The programs are especially designed to provide exceptional learning experience and prepare you for the state adjusters exam if required.
The new course is a useful tool for those wishing to become insurance claims adjusters. It features a 40-Hour Property and Casualty Adjuster License Course & Online Exam, as well as increased focus on topics that will help students pass the Texas Insurance Adjuster Exam.
Through learninsurance.com’s Instructor Connect Program, the student will enroll in the online Texas Insurance Adjuster License Training program that comes with individualized live coaching from industry expert trainer, Jack Frick. Students will gain phone and e-mail access to an industry professional who has over 30 years of experience. This special add-on is valid for 30 days when the student enrolls in the program.
The online Texas Insurance Claims Adjuster Training Course and Exam is recognized in 32 states. When a person qualifies as an Insurance Adjuster in Texas, that person will be licensed by proxy to operate in those states that recognize the Texas Adjuster license.
It is estimated that in 2009 there were around 2,773,000 active insurance licenses in the United States and 460,000 new licenses were issued nationwide. Recruiting and training new producers is expensive and a never-ending task for successful companies and agencies.
One study estimated that it took around $190,000 of investment for a new producer to become profitable to his or her employer and a breakeven point of 18 to 24 months. Let’s be conservative and assume it takes $150,000 of investment for a new producer to hit a breakeven point in 15 months. Here is the result.
If the insurance industry invested $150,000 a person in 460,000 new producers per year, this is a combined expenditure of $69,000,000. The first important stage a new producer takes is earning an insurance license. This experience can have important consequences for the next stages of the career. With $69,000,000 riding on the outcome, the importance of a positive and successful licensing experience takes on a new dimension. Make the first step count!
360training.com, which is based in Texas, offers online training in over 70 countries and has served over 3 million students. This is a leading US provider of online agent pre-licensing. Many have found the services of 360training.com helpful in maximizing their training dollars for the following reasons:
• Save time and travel dollars: In states that allow online pre-licensing courses, the students can train on their own time and schedule and save big bucks on travel costs. Online allows for frequent reinforcement, review, and practice with hundreds of questions before taking the state exam.
• One size does not fit all: Students come to insurance licensing experience with varying degrees of knowledge. The following apply to agent as well as adjuster courses.
o A person already licensed in one line of insurance may be earning a license in another line and has a substantial body of knowledge
o Some students have limited knowledge or may have a phobia on taking an exam
o For the student with no insurance knowledge, hates taking tests, and wants the immediate support of a live instructor
360training.com provides tailor-fit solutions to each of these situations, and then some.
360training.com helps keep it simple. Go to learninsurance.com and select Insurance Pre-Licensing/Exam Prep and select your state. Types of licenses, state regulations, and FAQ’s are listed. Trained enrollment advisors are available by a toll-free number or Live Chat.
360training.com provides the continuing educations credits needed for an agent to keep their license. A comprehensive CE package is only $39.95 for all the courses needed.
When your business is education, then you have to be more vigilant than most when it comes to changes in federal regulations. Reputations are built and destroyed by how well an educational institution knows the law.
The Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 was enacted by President Lyndon Johnson as part of the Great Society domestic agenda. The act was designed to enhance the educational resources of colleges and universities. Additionally, the act was also made to provide financial assistance for students in post-secondary and higher education. HEA increased federal money given to universities, produced scholarships, and imposed low interest loans for students. Back then, the Higher Education Act of 1971 was reauthorized in 1965, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, and lastly, 2008. The congress amends additional programs and policies on each reauthorization.
In August 2008, the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) was enacted and it was an amended version of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The 2008 Act also produces a number of drastic changes to programs authorized under the original Act. The major changes that were funded by Congress at that time the Act was passed were to give graduate level opportunities for Americans of Hispanic descent and Master’s degree programs at well-known ‘black’ colleges and universities and other ‘black’ institutions. Universities and colleges are required to develop “plans to effectively combat the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including through the use of a variety of technology-based deterrents.”
When you offer 360training.com online courses to your students, you can be assured that we follow the law to the letter. We’re not just compliant, we can help you become compliant, if you’re not already, by providing you with training and solutions.
The recent recession led a vast number of business establishments in the hospitality industry to lay off employees to keep their operations afloat. Now that the economy’s gradually recovering, employers have become more selective than ever in hiring only the most qualified professionals to join their staff. Jobseekers, for their part, have realized the value of having appropriate training to help them secure the position they’re applying for. If you want to pursue a career in the hospitality industry, enrolling in an alcohol seller certification course is a good first step toward your goal.
Most states will require you to have an alcohol seller certification prior to working in any liquor-related business. Possessing such a qualification certifies that you are equipped with the knowledge needed to perform your job responsibly and makes you eligible to apply for a bartending license. But to get to that point, you must first choose the right training program.
Online Alcohol Seller Training is fast becoming popular because of the convenience it affords. Whether you’re at home or in the office or even on the road, you can take online courses so long as you have a computer with an Internet connection. You also have the flexibility to start and finish the course on your own pace, which is one of the reasons why many professionals with irregular work schedules opt to take this type of education program. Some employers even finance their employees’ professional development training to help enhance work performance.
The right alcohol seller training program should provide the relevant information and techniques that those interested in getting into the business must learn. Lessons such as the effects of alcohol, prevention from alcohol intoxication, and second-party sales prevention are going to be tackled in the course. While it’s true that online education is affordable, you have to be careful in choosing your program provider.
Keeping your career out of peril is a challenging task. However, it becomes a piece of cake when you know what to do. It’s like going to war: you must have the perfect weapon in order to attain the sweetest victory. Fulfilling your continuing education means you want to bring out the best in you both as a professional and as a citizen.
360training.com, one of the top global providers of online certification courses, has seen many successes over the years by delivering not just what the market currently needs but also by exploring new markets. We offer training materials that incorporate different types of media such as video, animation, and interactivities in order to engage the learner.
We are proud to announce our new courses for our EMEA market via learn2serve.co.uk.
Since the beginning of the year, learn2serve.com, 360training.com’s public safety training portal, has begun offering the following courses that include video snippets in the training course.
For the food industry, learn2serve.co.uk has released the following:
• Food Safety in Catering
• Food Safety in Retailing
• Food Safety in Manufacturing
• Fundamentals of HACCP Level 2
All of these courses are RSPH-approved.
In addition to food and beverage courses, learn2serve.com now also features Health & Safety in the Workplace, which is a 6-hour course that provides the basic principles of health and safety in the workplace. Topics include the legal and moral responsibilities regarding the safety of employees and establishment visitors. This course covers the importance of identifying and controlling possible workplace hazards with the goal of creating a safe and healthy work environment.
Continuing education is a critical part of any OSHA training related career. When employees are faced with job loss, it can be hard to fathom being able to worry about anything but finding another job. However, part of being an organization means taking responsibility of your workers so that they are able to get their continuing education credits. By doing so, you are able to guarantee that your employees are the cream of the crop. Continuing education helps make them grow as a professional and gives your organization that much-deserved polish. Letting your employees’ professional certification lapse is always a bad idea because it can open your company to a bombardment of lawsuits.
The economy has left behind an aftermath that many people never imagined. More people than ever are out of work and still many cannot afford to complete the credit hours they need to keep from getting fired. And while it’s a seller’s market out there, ensuring your current team is fully licensed increases your credibility as an organization.
An expired certification isn’t going to do anyone any good. With the accessibility and affordability of online courses, you don’t have to worry about the expense of traveling, attending seminars or courses. You can rest easy knowing that you have everything taken care of, and you will be able to focus more on the business side, which is what you need to be doing right now.
OSHA certification is required for a variety of professional jobs. It’s no wonder that so many people seek online CE courses every single year. This is actually one of the most popular areas of CE that people search for. Your organization relies on the valuable skills that your employees provide, and you need to protect yourself and your business by taking the time to track and keep your people’s training in check.
OSHAcampus.com, America’s premier OSHA compliance training Web site, and powered by 360training.com, offers OSHA study guides! These updated study guides can spell the difference between employees retaining information and easily forgetting what they’ve only just learned.
These guides were designed to help users achieve maximum retention and ensure that your employees are ready to take the final exam to receive their DOL Card.
The study guides will assist your team throughout the online course and can also be used as a future reference manual. The guides currently available at OSHAcampus.com include:
• OSHA 10-hr Construction Outreach Study Guide
• OSHA 10-hr General Industry Outreach Study Guide
• OSHA 30-hr Construction Outreach Study Guide
• OSHA 30-hr General Industry Outreach Study Guide
• HAZWOPER 8-hr Refresher Study Guide
• HAZWOPER 8-hr Refresher w/ Blood Borne Pathogens Module Study Guide
• HAZWOPER 8-hr Refresher w/ Excavations Module Study Guide
In our quest to offer quality e-Learning courses to both end-consumers and our Value Added Resellers, 360training.com is excited to announce the release of new online safety courses. The new programs consist of instructional content followed by a 10-question assessment test requiring a 70% passing score.
360training.com—through its best-selling OSHA compliance portal, OSHAcampus.com—aims to provide courses that focus mainly on topic points students need to learn in order to comply with regulatory safety standards. In a sense, we have “trimmed the fat out”. We deliver cost- and time-effective products that help maximize student retention. The length of the courses varies depending on the subject matter.
Each course has a distinct catalog number, which allows students to track which version of a specific topic has been taken in order to provide variety in training.
The series includes courses on some of the biggest training points such as Forklift, Blood Borne Pathogens, Lockout/Tagout, Hazardous Materials, and much more.
If your business heavily relies on employees with exceptional safety training, contact 360training.com today to find out how its wide-scoping and outstanding online catalog can help with your organization’s training and compliance needs.
The Industrial Technologies Curriculum is a dynamic, comprehensive training solution designed by lkitraining.com—powered by 360training.com, the country’s premier provider of compliance training and content management solutions—to help workers in the power industry achieve versatility as professionals.
Some of the top subject matter experts with years of field and educational experience have developed this curriculum. All lessons are created utilizing learning outcome-based instructional design methods. In other words, the aim is to create compelling and engaging training materials that actually help learners retain information. These online courses use a variety of media, including photographs, graphics, video, animations, and three-dimensional representations. Interactive remediation and simulation is also developed for each lesson to maximize the learning experience.
Featured Course Titles Include:
• Safety and Soft Skills
• Lubrication Analysis in Rotating Machinery
• Power Generation & Alternative Energy Options
• Basic Power Plant Efficiency
• Industrial Instrumentation
• Terminating and Connecting Wires in a Control Panel
• Process Systems and Operations
• Inspecting the Fireside of a Boiler
• Machine Shop
• Bearing Maintenance
• Industrial Maintenance
• Industrial Electricity
• Combustible Dusts
• Introduction to the Laws of Physics – Force and Motion
• Introduction to the Laws of Physics – Energy, Work, and Power
• Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures
• Stormwater Regulations and Pollution Prevention Plans
• Environmental Awareness
• Confined Spaces – Entry Supervisor Duties
• Confined Space Entry – Entrant and Attendant Duties
