Continuing Education Solutions for Healthcare Professionals
08/12/2026
Tip Tuesday: Two things kill a wound closure — infection and tension.
Tension is the one you control in the moment. Pull too tight and you restrict perfusion to the wound edges, which is exactly where healing has to start. If the skin blanches around your suture, you've gone too far.
Light approximation beats aggressive closure every time.
08/10/2026
Most clinical errors aren't knowledge failures.
They're pattern recognition failures — moments where the right information was there but didn't connect to the right action fast enough.
Pattern recognition is a trainable skill. It gets sharper with deliberate exposure, repetition, and practice under conditions that mimic the real thing.
What's the clinical pattern you wish you'd recognized sooner?
08/07/2026
You don't need to clear your schedule to level up.
Our online courses are built for practicing clinicians — self-paced, CE-eligible, and grounded in the clinical decisions you're already making every day. EKG interpretation, lab values, ABGs, and more.
Lifetime access. Start when you're ready.
Link in bio to browse the full catalog.
08/06/2026
Skills On Point wasn't built for the clinician who only wants a certificate.
It was built for the one who wants to actually be better — who shows up knowing there might be a gap between what school prepared them for and what practice demands, and who's willing to do something about it.
That's who we train for. Every course, every kit, every simulation.
08/04/2026
Tip Tuesday: Why UTIs Are (Almost) Always Gram-Negative
Ever wonder why gram-negative organisms dominate the UTI conversation? It comes down to geography.
Gram-negatives live where the sun doesn't shine — armpits, groin, and the mouth-to-anus GI tract. That's exactly the neighborhood urinary tract infections come from.
Gram-positives (Staph, Strep, Enterococcus) claim the sun-exposed real estate — skin that could actually tan.
The mouth breaks the rules: it's colonized by both, so don't skip coverage there.
Know the territory, predict the pathogen.
07/31/2026
There's a reason most, if not all, of our SOP instructors are active clinicians.
We don't teach from a textbook. We teach from what we saw last week, what we've gotten wrong, and what we've refined over years of practice.
That's what makes the training stick.
07/29/2026
You've met our Skills on Point Staff and now we want to introduce you to some of the amazing instructors on our SOP Team!
Today we introduce you to Christine Wagener who is one of our West Coast University CRE instructors and you can also see her at our live BSN events and more!
Dr. Christina Wagener, DNP, MBA, APRN, NPC, WOCN is the Chief Clinical Officer at BoldAge PACE, where she provides national leadership and guidance to all clinicians and sets the clinical direction of the organization as part of the national executive leadership team. A transformational and servant leader, Dr. Wagener is known for delivering innovative, outside-the box solutions that strengthen collaboration and optimize operations, finance and clinical care.
She brings more than two decades of healthcare leadership experience, including serving as Chief Operating Officer, System Chief Nursing Officer and various other leadership roles internationally and domestically.
Dr. Wagener earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice and MBA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, two Master of Science in Nursing degrees from DePaul University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business from Northern Illinois University. A licensed Full Practice Authority Nurse Practitioner in Illinois, she is an active member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the Illinois Association of Nurse Practitioners. She was recognized as a “40 Under 40 Emerging Nurse Leader” and regularly presents her original research at national conferences.
Outside of work, Christina enjoys traveling to visit family, spending time with her husband of 27 years, and roller skating.
We're so glad to have you on the SOP Team, Christina!
07/29/2026
Tip Tuesday: A running suture closes faster. An interrupted suture fails safer.
If one interrupted suture loses tension, the rest hold. If a running suture breaks, the entire wound is at risk.
Know what you're closing and why before you decide your technique.
07/25/2026
The debrief after a simulation is often more valuable than the simulation itself.
That's where the real learning happens — not "what did you do" but "why did you do it" and "what would you do differently."
We build our courses and immersions around those conversations.
07/24/2026
CME you'll actually use.
Our online courses aren't designed to check a box — they're designed to change how you think at the bedside. Lab values, ABGs, EKG interpretation.
Browse the catalog at the link in bio.