Education

Through Gannett Education (CE), the largest providership of continuing nursing education, Gannett Healthcare Group provides educational activities for professional nurses across the US and internationally. Our belief is that as adult learners professional nurses should be able to choose their venues for learning. Therefore, Gannett Education offers the widest variety of educational activities in nursing through the following product lines and services:

• An Online and Print Inventory of more than 700 learner-paced (independent, home-study) courses available for retail purchase
• CE Direct^®, employer-sponsored access to our online and print inventory and contact hours
• Unlimited CE for individual subscribers, with unlimited access to over 400 courses in our online inventory including state mandated CE
• CE On Location, CE sessions and LIVE CE seminars sponsored and hosted by individual hospitals
• CE Seminars, full-day CE sessions on clinical and career topics, including our Meditation Specialist™ Certification Program, one of only two programs designated by ANCC as a Nursing Skills Competency Program. Other seminars include Case Management, IV Therapy Certification, Career Alternatives for Nurses, Infusion Topics, and Starting Your Own Business
• Career Fair Seminars, hour-long CE sessions offered in conjunction with recruiter exhibits
• Blend Vocation Through Vacation^® Cruises and Study Tours, custom international travel hosted by Nursing Spectrum CE staff with CE speakers and hospital visits
• Custom Magazines, targeted direct-mail CE modules sponsored by individual hospitals

Through Today in PT and TodayinPT.com, Gannett Healthcare Group provides CE for physical therapists, and through subject-specific CE in NY and KY, CE for physicians and all other healthcare providers. Through Today in OT and TodayinOT.com, Gannett Healthcare Group provides CE for occupational therapists.

Extensive Content Development
Gannett Education featuring Nursing Spectrum and Nurseweek courses are developed to be original, practical, useful, and informative for any RN, yet innovative and entertaining. Along with a full array of common topics, we look to create courses on important subjects that have been missed or undercovered — what nurses need to know before they know they need to know it. Several new courses are published every month, and we are constantly reviewing and revising our existing inventory.

CE Direct, Gannett Healthcare Group's corporate education program, is a direct extension of our mission to enrich the professional lives of nurses. By partnering with committed employers, Gannett Healthcare Group is providing the opportunity for continued professional improvement and career advancement to more nurses (and other clinical staff) than ever before.

Blending the efficiencies of Internet-based e-learning with time-tested instructional models such as our magazine courses, CE Direct provides healthcare organizations with a variety of true multimedia self-study options with almost no additional time or effort on the part of their education team. With a CE Direct package, self-study is just that — study done by oneself, without the assistance of others. CE Direct staff handles all the evaluations, tracking and distribution of CE certificates, freeing up the education team to do more educating and less paperwork.

2007-8, 2009-10 Winner of the ANCC Accreditation Premier Program Award

For the second consecutive time, the ANCC has given this prestigious award to Nursing Spectrum CE (now Gannett Education), one of only two organizations to have ever received this honor. The Premier Program Award is the "seal of approval," giving nursing professionals the confidence of knowing they are receiving high-quality CE from a tested and trusted provider.

In 2007, when first conferring this award, the ANCC had this to say:

"The most obvious example of Nursing Spectrum CE's status as a model of learning excellence comes from the more than 250 healthcare organizations and systems that have contracted for access to Nursing Spectrum CE's educational activities for their nurses through CE Direct. Some organizations have been in this relationship for seven years or more, and the program has a 95% renewal rate."