Founded by me, Henry (Hank) Geiter, Jr, RN, CCRN-CMC, TNCC, in 2001, the mission of this company is to give nurses everywhere the opportunity to acquire skill and knowledge at their own pace in a non-threatening environment and for minimal or NO cost.
I have been a nurse since 1992 and helping to educate nurses since 1994 however, I only obtained Florida Board of Nursing Continuing Education provider approval in late 2003. I then began development of the online version of these courses which became available in December 2003.
Although there are a great many companies that provide nurses with continuing education opportunities, I felt we needed one more. You see, some offer free courses but on esoteric topics, some charge an exorbitant fee per hour of credit (some as high as $8.00 per hour of credit or more!). This site is different. We think education is a right of all nurses and cost is a factor that can inhibit learning. We paid dearly for our initial education and now companies are bilking us for continuing education. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars a year on interesting topics, you can learn for FREE! Some courses will have a small cost to help support the site, and the nursing adjuncts we have developed will, of course, have a modest fee attached, but the goal is education first, making money second. In addition I, and the other authors that you will see on this site, don't write to impress, we write to express! Knowledge becomes most powerful when it is explained so others can understand it! We pride ourselves on using simple language and very little technical mumbo-jumbo to truly demystifies medical and nursing knowledge.
In addition, I was tired of having forty different pages book marked and searching through my favorites on my browser; I wanted one place that nurses could go to get pertinent timely information. Whether it was web sites for locating additional free resources, conferences, corporate web sites, or even links to other continuing education locations, both free and fee based, our company goal is to allow nurses to find all the opportunities that best fit their needs.
I love research and writing. Writing, to me, is a passion - whether short stories, technical articles, or books. Although it wasn't until recently that I decided to share his writing with others, once I started writing I had trouble stopping...
I have written more than 30 articles for nursing journals such as RN, Nursing2004 (through Nursing 2012), Vital Signs, and DCCN, and also write continuing education articles for my co-workers at Sunstar-Paramedics Plus. However, some of the continuing education articles are either "too long", "too detailed", or "not right for our audience" when submitted to the journals. Instead of limiting them to people I know and work with, I decided to make them available to everyone! Other authors on this site have written educational programs for Critical Care Transport Program where I work and they graciously allowed me to post them here for your perusal.
