Growing Up With Us is a monthly newsletter individually tailored to specific populations across the lifespan.

Growing Up With Us: A Newsletter for Those Who Care for Children
Addresses population/age-specific topics from infancy through the school-age period. Topics vary from being individualized, such as how to approach young children to gain their cooperation during assessment, to more generic topics, including assessing vital signs and pain in children.

Grown Up: Caring for Adolescents, Adults and Aging Adults
Addresses population/age-specific topics from adolescence through the geriatric years. Again, topics may be individualized to a specific age-group, such as elderly abuse, to topics impacting all age-groups, such as reducing medical errors and understanding HIV.

Growing Up With Us and Grown Up newsletters are provided for SRMC staff. You can access the newsletters on the SRMC Intranet Education Connection, or you may receive a copy of the newsletter from your manager. Read the newsletter and take the test for those topics that are appropriate to your position. You may earn Contact Hours by completing the newsletter tests online at http://www.growingupwithus.com/quiztaker/. Your Username and Password will be provided by your manager/assistant manager. An individualized Certificate of Completion will be available for printing and one (1) contact hour will be awarded for each test successfully completed.

If you have need assistance or have any questions, please contact Kathy Colbert at 804-765-5939 (or Ext. 5939).

All Growing Up With Us, Inc. educational activities are approved by the Virginia Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.