Common Upper Extremity Disorders
Gregory Mangione, MPAS, PA-C
This lecture was recorded during the SCAPA 2020 Fall CME Conference and is approved for 1 hour of CME by the AAPA Review Panel and pharmacology. AAPA is an acceptable CE provider for AANPCP.
Stroke Prevention Medical Interventions for Everyday Practice
Patrick Salvaris and Bruce Campbell
Although many strokes are preventable, it can be challenging to assess the risk versus benefit of therapy in individual patients, particularly regarding anticoagulation. Patients with atrial fibrillation generally require anticoagulation to reduce the risk of stroke, yet patients at highest risk often remain undertreated. Early....
Session 5: Genomic Abnormalities and core organ function deficits: Effects on Immune System, Mitochondria, Vitamin D and A function, Vision, Thyroid, GI and other primary body functions.
Paul S. Anderson, NMD
As we can now locate and assess SNP defects that change the genome and epigenetics we also can assess and treat these areas for both preventive and disease specific outcomes. Do you ever wonder why some patients get “every infection” and their partner doesn’t? Why some take a dose of a drug and have horrible side effects and som....
Updating Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management
Keith D’Oria and Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, FACE
0.5 Hours
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the American College of Endocrinology (ACE) recently published an update to their comprehensive type 2 diabetes management algorithm. The update provides clinicians with a practical guide that considers the whole patient, their spectrum of cardiovascular risks and....
Cultural Diversity and Safety
Deb Shearman
0.5 Hours
Overview; Peoples rights; Respecting culture and diversity; Cultural competence; Communication; Supporting individual wants and preferences
Documentation, Collaboration and Communication
Deb Shearman
0.5 Hours
Overview; Reasons for documentation; Responsibilities; “Do’s and “don'ts” of documentation; Principles of collaboration; Communication for safe and quality care and service delivery
Dignity and Respect
Deb Shearman
0.5 Hours
Overview; Dignity and respect in all care settings; Older people’s rights; Worker responsibilities; Principles of respect in care; Respect for diversity
Social Inclusion and Support
Deb Shearman
0.5 Hours
Overview; Principles of social inclusion; Research on the benefits; Barriers; Supporting social inclusion
Nutrition V: Nutrition Counselling and Promotion
The Hospital for Sick Children & ADRA Canada
Good nutrition and nutrition-related behaviours are critical for a child’s healthy growth, development and survival. Globally, approximately 45 percent of deaths among children under 5 are linked to undernutrition and 22.3 percent, or more than one in five children under age 5 worldwide has stunted growth. Across Kenya, mor....
LA SURVEILLANCE DU TRAVAIL D’ACCOUCHEMENT
INGABIRE Marie Jeanne, Dr. UWIMANA Marie Chantal
Ce cours s'agit de la surveillance du travail d'accouchement
Oral Health for Midwives and Maternal and Child Health Nurses
Jill Iliffe RN, RM, BAS, MIntS, IDMHHRL
The overall aim of the Oral Health for Midwives and Maternal and Child Health Nurses course is to demonstrate to midwives and nurses the importance of them incorporating oral health information, education, and assessment into their daily midwifery and nursing care and for them to become advocates for a healthy daily oral health....
Substance Use Disorders and Child Maltreatment
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Feidler, M.S.W., Karen Mooney, LCSW, Mary Nak
6 Hours
This manual, Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders, provides a basis for understanding parental substance use disorder and its relationship to child maltreatment. The manual encourages enhanced collaboration between CPS and alcohol and drug abuse treatment agencies.
Unlawful Harassment - Employer Liability
Industry Specialist
3 Hours
This course provides laws and regulations of: vicarious employer liability for unlawful harassment by supervisors; the vicarious liability rule applies to unlawful harassment on all covered bases; who qualifies as a supervisor; harassment by supervisor that does and does not result in a tangible employment action; harassment by....
Substance Abuse Treatment and Family Therapy (Revised)
Industry Specialist
10 Hours
The fields of substance abuse treatment and family therapy share many common assumptions, approaches, and techniques, but differ in significant philosophical and practical ways that affect treatment approaches and goals. This CE course explores the impact of substance abuse on families; discusses approaches to therapy in both s....
Sexual Violence in Later Life
Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, AFN-BC, SANE-A
1 Hours
The short- and long-term health implications for patients, in combination with increased mortality rates, make recognizing and effectively responding to sexual violence against older adults an important responsibility of all health care professionals. This CEU course assists health care providers in meeting their professional o....
The Generalist's Guide: Irregular Vaginal Bleeding of the Young Patient
Oluyemisi Adeyemi-Fowode, MD, FACOG; Kimberly Hoover, MD, FACOG; Mary Romano, MD, FACOG
0.25 Hours
The Generalist's Guide: Irregular Vaginal Bleeding of the Young Patient is the third unit of a three-part series co-authored by ACOG and NASPAG experts in obstetrics and gynecology. This unit covers diagnosis, evaluation, and management of the young patient as well as referral guidelines and three practice cases. It is also gear....
Tribal Probation Personnel - Turning Principles into Practice
Industry Specialist
1 Hours
This CEU course provides an introduction to the risk, need, dosage, and responsivity principles espoused in the evidenced-based principles for community supervision. Further, guidance will be provided on how tribal probation officers can incorporate the premise behind each principle into everyday practice. *This course is no....
Women and Cardiovascular Disease
Carolyn E. Sabo, RN, EdD
10 Hours
The realization that cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women cannot be fully explained using the historical reference of CVD in men has finally come to fruition. As healthcare professionals, we now understand that the concept of CVD in women is an independent field of research, study, and practice. Nursing practice has traditional....
Youth in Foster Care - Assessment of Work Preparation
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1 Hours
How youth in foster care who participated in the Multi-Site Evaluation of Foster Youth Programs Life Skills Training Program rated their preparedness for work at age 17 is described in this short CEU course, as well as exploring whether their assessments accurately predict employment two years later. Also examined is whether yo....
Therapeutic Communities
Industry Specialists
2 Hours
Therapeutic communities are a common form of long-term residential treatment for substance use disorders. This CEU course discusses the therapeutic community approach, the effectiveness of therapeutic communities, fundamental components, methods of providing treatment, treating populations with special needs, and integration of....
The Total Joint Replacement Patient
Paul M. Levy, MSN, BS, RN, ONC
6 Hours
When is it time for surgery? The latest in operative procedures: Total Joint Arthroplasty Bipolar Hip Arthroplasty Open Reduction Internal Fixation Megaprothstetics Key strategies to prevent post-operative complications/risks Achieving success: Rehabilitation goals and discharge planning Joint Commission S.C.I.P. (Surgical Care....
The Ultimate Hands-On Wound Care Clinical Lab
Joan Junkin MSN, APRN-CNS, CWOCN
6 Hours
Staging wounds & identifying tissue types Wound characteristics, indications & cost considerations for product selection Accurate measuring techniques Practical wound treatment strategies - for your most difficult wounds Actual wound models and sample products to practice new skills! In healthcare facilities across the country,....
The ESH/ESC guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
Chris Arden
There still remains a significant gap between the goal of optimal treatment of hypertension and ‘real life’ practice. As a consequence, hypertension remains a leading cause of cardiovascular related morbidity and mortality. There is a continuing need to improve both the detection and management of hypertension, with a view to im....
Secure from the Start: Why Medical IoT Needs Protection Now
Hussein Syed and Ladi Adefala
1 Hours
Healthcare organizations that don't learn how to operate in the new Digital Age, leveraging sensors and devices that make up Medical IoT, are not likely to survive. Each of these devices generates data that is collected, sorted, analyzed, stored, and examined somewhere - usually in or through the cloud. This data, and the new c....
Telehealth on the Hill: How Policy Is Ushering Change
Roy Schoenberg
1 Hours
The regulatory landscape for telemedicine has shifted dramatically over the last 10 years, from a time of prohibition to an emerging policy landscape that is poised to incentivize and nationalize virtual care. This session will educate attendees on the near-term policy news and moves that will change how consumers, providers and....