Medline University

Medline University is the online continuing education site of Medline Industries, LP, built for nurses and the wider healthcare workforce in hospitals and care facilities. It offers self-paced CE courses, short microlearning modules, clinical education programs organized around Medline's product areas, live webinars and a Scholar badge program. The FAQ describes its purpose in one sentence: it "is designed to make it easy for learners to find the courses they need and for administrators to achieve their facilities' learning objectives." So it serves two readers at once: the individual nurse or therapist collecting contact hours, and the educator or manager who wants a whole unit trained on safe patient handling, falls or infection prevention.

The footer carries copyright notices for both Medline Industries, LP and HealthStream, Inc., and states that the site is "Powered by Higher Logic." The FAQ also explains that learners need an hStream ID to connect their community account with their activity "in the learning management system," which shows the course delivery and the community side run on separate systems linked by that ID.

The CE course library

The CE Courses section lists library entries, each with a course description and the credit it carries, shown in the title. The list runs over several pages and covers practical clinical and workplace topics. Examples from the first page include Skin Assessments for Diverse Skin Tones (1.0 CE for Nurses), Surgical Site Infection Prevention and Incision Care, Dementia Care for Nurses, Pain Management, Implicit Bias for Nurses, Trauma-Informed Care, Emergency Preparedness in Healthcare, Safety Culture: Communication Lessons, and Navigating Workplace Violence, Bullying, and Incivility in Healthcare. Respiratory topics include Non-invasive Ventilated Patient Management, Airway Suctioning Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Review, and Managing Artificial Airway Cuff Pressure, the last listed as "1.0 CE for Nurses and 1.0 CRCE for Respiratory Therapists."

The credit labels show which professions a course counts for. Most list nursing CE; several also name nursing home administrators, such as Health Equity: The Nurse's Role and Self-Care for Nurses; respiratory courses add CRCE for respiratory therapists; and Hand Hygiene Program: Glove Use is listed for "Nurses and Clinical Laboratory Specialists," with separate start buttons for nursing CE and PACE CE. There are also two COVID-19 courses, one on infection control strategies and one on identification, testing and treatment options, plus a two-part diabetes series, Understanding Diabetes for Nurses II and III, covering complications and then management, nutrition and patient education. A course catalog is also offered as a downloadable PDF.

Microlearning

Alongside the full courses sits a Microlearning Courses section. The FAQ says these modules "deliver focused learning in short segments of 3–15 minutes" and are "ideal for quick, mobile-friendly education." It is clear about what they do not do: "While you will receive a certificate of completion, there is no course assessment and no contact hours are awarded." A learner who needs credit is told to look for a full-length version of the same course, which the course page marks when one exists. The Safe Mobility program shows how the two formats pair up: Fall Prevention exists as a 1.0 CE course and as a microlearning version that teaches risk assessment and prevention "in less than 10 minutes."

Clinical programs

The Clinical Programs menu holds these program areas: Clinical Lab, Decolonization, Hospital-Onset Bacteremia Preparedness, Perioperative Management, Respiratory, Safe Mobility Solution, Skin Health Solution, Sterile Processing, Urological Solution and Vascular Access Health Solution. Each is a themed collection aimed at a facility team rather than one learner.

The Safe Mobility Solution page is a good example of what a program contains. It is pitched at everyone in a facility, from Safe Patient Handling and Falls committee members to caregiving staff, and says it helps teams "implement the upcoming ANA best practices to prevent unnecessary injuries and foster a culture of safety." It bundles CE courses at 1.0 CE for Nurses each (Progressive Mobility, Fall Prevention, Falls Prevention in Healthcare: Tools and Strategies, Safe Patient Handling: Lifting, Safe Patient Handling: Positioning and Safe Patient Handling for Champions) with Patient Safety: Increasing Awareness at 1.25 CE for Nursing Home Administrators. It adds a best practice video series with titles such as Introduction to Safe Patient Handling, Seven Principles of Safe Patient Lifting, Maintenance Safety Checks, Sling Selection and Type, and Patient Lifting Techniques, and it ends with a reference list citing sources such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and NIOSH.

Cost

The Safe Mobility page describes its offer as "no -cost online courses and webinars" that "provide convenient, on-demand training for everyone in your facility." No prices or paid plans appear on any of these pages, and courses are taken through a learner account (Sign In and Create an Account sit at the top of every page). The other program pages do not repeat the no-cost wording.

Credits, transcripts and licenses

The FAQ treats CE paperwork in practical detail. It explains that CE and CEU are two different terms: CE "stands for Continuing Education and is typically associated with a contact hour," while "One CEU is equivalent to 10 contact hours." To have credits appear, a learner must complete the License section of their profile; for nursing credit the Discipline field has to read "Registered Nurse" or an equivalent. A transcript is produced from the Completed tab with a Print button, which builds a "Student and Group Transcript Report" that can be printed or exported. The footer links to an Accreditation Partners page, but the pages here do not name the accrediting bodies.

The Scholar Program

The Scholar Program adds recognition on top of credit. The FAQ says participants "earn recognition badges by completing designated courses in valuable clinical categories," and that it is open to all healthcare staff, listing nurses, nursing assistants, nursing home administrators, case managers, dietitians, nutritionists, physical therapists and several sterile and central processing roles. Badges include Dementia Care, CAUTI Prevention, Infection Prevention, Central Sterile, Vascular Access Device, Skin Health, Diabetes, Leadership, Nursing Leadership, Mobility, Safe Patient Handling, Respiratory 101 and 102, Conflict Resolution and Healing, and Culture of Safety.

Each badge has a launch date, and only courses taken after that date, in the most recent version, count toward it. A learner who completed a course earlier can retake it to qualify. Badges can take up to an hour to appear, arrive with an email confirmation, and show on the learner's Honors Page and community profile. Each badge page carries suggested text for sharing it on LinkedIn, Facebook, X or by email.

Support and requirements

Help comes in two forms. The FAQ says Medline University hosts "live 30-minute training sessions every week" to help users get started and ask questions, with a User Training Webinar Schedule linked in the footer, and a customer service team answers by email. Username and password problems go to telephone support only, since the FAQ says no login help is given by email for security reasons. The recommended setup is Google Chrome with pop-ups and cookies allowed, and a desktop computer: the FAQ warns that "some features may not work properly on mobile phones or tablets."

Who it suits

Medline University suits nurses who want contact hours on clinical and safety topics without paying for a subscription, and respiratory therapists, nursing home administrators and lab staff whose credits are named on specific courses. It suits a nurse educator or safe patient handling committee that wants a ready-made program to put a whole unit through, with transcripts that can be exported per student or group and badges that give staff a visible reason to finish. The catalog is shaped by Medline's own clinical product areas, so it is strongest on falls, mobility, skin health, infection prevention, respiratory care and sterile processing, and anyone after specialty or advanced practice topics outside those areas will find less here.