Online Education

Welcome to NAON's Center for Online Continuing Education. Here you can find a variety of Online Continuing Education opportunities.

NAON offers a variety of online courses to help you earn contact hours toward your recertification in orthopaedic nursing or nursing license renewal. The following courses may be purchased from the NAON eStore.

  • Full Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review Course Modules 1-8
  • Degenerative Joint Diseases
  • Inflammatory Diseases
  • Metabolic Bone Disorders
  • Neuromuscular/Pediatrics/Congenital
  • Oncology
  • Orthopaedic Trauma
  • Orthopaedics in the Operating Room
  • Sports Injuries
  • Pain and VTE Prevention and Treatment: Uniting the Team for Orthopaedic Concerns
  • VTE Prevention and Treatment: Uniting the Health Care Team for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prevention & Treatment

How it works: These courses are all accessible completely online, from any computer with access to the internet.  After you purchase a course, you will login to the NAON Website at www.orthonurse.org. Once you are logged into the website a button named "Your Online Education" will pop up on the left hand side of the screen. Click on this button to access your online education. Once you view the course and complete the post-test you will receive your contact hour certificate via regular mail within 4 weeks.

If you do not know your NAON login and password information please contact the NAON National Office at naon@smithbucklin.com or at 800.289.NAON (6266).

Journal Contact Hours

Orthopaedic Nursing Journal contact hours through Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

For Orthopaedic Nursing Journal contact hours simply select an article below, read each section, take the post test and submit your payment information. After your post test has been submitted it will be graded promptly and you will receive your results in the mail. If you have any questions please contact NAON at or 800.289.6266.

Title of Article

Expiration

Contact Hours

Clinical Quality Indicators Infection Prophylaxis for Total Knee Arthroplasty 10/31/2013 1.5
Development of a Web-Based Gout Self-Management Program 10/31/2013 2.0
Gout :No Longer the Disease of Kings 10/31/2013 2.5
Orthopaedic Trauma: Pilon Fractures
10/31/2013 2.0
Delirium in the Older Adult Orthopaedic Patient: Predisposing, Precipitating, and Organic Factors 8/31/2013 2.5
Creation of a Multi-Interventional Fall-Prevention Program: Using Evidence-Based Practice to Identify High-Risk Units and Tailor Interventions 8/31/2013 2..5
Emerging Techniques in Orthopaedics: Platelet-Rich Plasma 8/31/2013 1.5
Understanding the Educational Needs and the Role of Health Providers for Parents of Children With Clubfoot 8/31/2013 2.0
Case Studies in Geriatric Health Literacy 8/31/2013 1.5
Lower Extremity Orthoses in Children With Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy: Implications for Nurses, Parents, and Caregivers 6/30/2013 1.5
The Silent Thief: Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis 6/30/2013 3.5
Improving Follow-up After Fragility Fractures: An Evidence-based Initiative 6/30/2013 2.5
Venous Thromboembolism After Fibula Fracture: A Patient's Perspective 6/30/2013 3.0
Category I Pressure Ulcers: How Reliable is Clinical Assessment? 6/30/2013 3.5
A Clinical Nurse Specialist Led Journey to The Joint Commission Disease-Specific Certification in Hip Fractures 4/30/2013 2.0
Inferior Vena Cava Filter Use as Pulmonary Embolism Prophylaxis in Trauma 4/30/2013 4.0
Bilateral Simultaneous Hip Replacement Versus Bilateral Sequential Hip Replacement: A 7-Year Data Review 4/30/2013 2.0
Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction: A Case Study 4/30/2013 2.0
Evidence-Based Practice: Caring for a Patient Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty 2/28/2013 2.0
Common Pediatric Elbow Fractures 2/28/2013 2.0
Casting: All Wrapped Up 2/28/2013 1.5
One Statin, Two Statins, Three Statins, More: Similarities and Differences of 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase Inhibitors 2/28/2013 1.5
Implementing a Relationship-Based Care Model on a Large Orthopaedic/ Neurosurgical Hospital Unit 12/31/2012 2.0
Osteoarticular Manifestations of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection 12/31/2012 2.5
Scheuermann's Thoracic Kyphosis in the Adolescent Patient 12/31/2012 2.0
Clinical Practice Guidelines For Early Mobilization Hours After Surgery
Orthopaedic Nursing
10/31/2012 3.0
Establishing a Safe Patient Handling/Minimal Lift Program
Orthopaedic Nursing
10/31/2012 2.5
Rotator Cuff Tears: An Overview
Orthopaedic Nursing
10/31/2012 2.0
What's New? Medication Changes 2008–2010
Orthopaedic Nursing
10/31/2012 1.5

Management of Acute Anterior Shoulder Instability in Adolescents

08/31/2012

2.5

Massage Therapy for Stress Management: Implications for Nursing Practice

08/31/2012

1.5

Venous Thromboembolism: Have We Made Headway?

08/31/2012

3.0

Bisphosphonate - Associated Osteonecrosis of the Jaws: Patient Care Considerations: Overview for the Orthopaedic Nursing Healthcare Professional

06/30/2012

2.0

Care of the Post-op Shoulder Arthroplasty Patient

06/30/2012

2.1

Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

04/30/2012

2.5

Acetaminophen: Old Friend - New Rules

02/29/2012

1.5

Better Pain Management After Total Joint Replacement Surgery

02/29/2012

2.0

Congenital Scoliosis with Associated Rib Fusions: Nursing Care of Patients Following VEPTR Insertion

02/29/2012

1.5

Improving Clinical Outcomes with Continuous Passive Motion: An Interactive Education Approach

02/29/2012

2.0

Adhesive Capsulitis: A Case Study

12/31/2011

2.0

Ankle Sprains and Fractures in Adults

12/31/2011

2.0

Intraoperative Nuromonitoring in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery

12/31/2011

2.5

Clavicle Fractures in Children: The Essentials

10/31/2011

2.0

Promoting the Use of Periarticular Multimodal Drug Injection for Total Knee Arthroplasty

10/31/2011

2.5

Complications Associated With Clavicular Fracture

10/31/2011

2.5