Serving LGBT Youth and Adult Populations
Industry Specialist
1 Hours
The social and legal environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the United States is changing rapidly. Despite these changes, existing research suggests that LGBT people, like some other minority groups, may face disproportionate risks to their economic and social well-being. This CEU course summar....
Sex Trafficking: A Gender Based Civil Rights Violation
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
11 Hours
The trafficking of persons has frequently been described as a “modern” or “Twenty-First Century” form of slavery. This CEU course provides definitions of trafficking; discusses how and why trafficking victims are identified; investigates the relationship between organized crime and human trafficking; examines the legalization o....
Supporting Responsible Fatherhood
Industry Specialist
2 Hours
This course provides information on family strengthening research by reviewing programs designed around: supporting fatherhood; strengthening relationships; capacity building; nurturing children through families; family strengthening research for American Indian and Alaska Natives; and supporting positive youth development and r....
Women Who Inject Drugs: Risks Experiences and Needs
Anna Roberts LL.B, MIPH, et al.
6 Hours
Women who inject drugs have substantially different needs and face higher risks of disease and violence than do men who inject drugs. This CE course seeks to illuminate the many reasons a focus on drug-injecting women is important, including their significantly higher mortality rates, increased likelihood of facing injecting-re....
Supporting Women with Substance Use Disorders in Co-ed Settings
Sharon Amatetti, M.P.H.
3 Hours
Most women are served in co-ed settings, yet the design of behavioral health services rarely takes sex and gender differences into account. This CE course provides principles and practices that co-ed centers can use to assess and improve their programs to better serve women.
Suicide - Assessment, Management and Treatment
Industry Specialist
6 Hours
The intent of this course is to: reduce current unwarranted practice variations and provide facilities with a structured framework to help improve patient outcomes (prevent suicide and other forms of suicidal self-directed violent behavior); provide evidence-based recommendations to assist providers and their patients in the dec....
Suicide Prevention Treatment and Support
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin MD
6 Hours
This course focuses on: healthy and empowered individuals, families, and communities; clinical and community preventive services; treatment and support services; surveillance, research, and evaluation; and the national strategy for suicide prevention goals and objectives for action. This course meets CCU approval in KY for OT....
Suicide Prevention in High Schools
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) in collaboration with Educat
10 Hours
This toolkit was prepared for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) in collaboration with Education Development Center, Inc. This toolkit was developed to assist high school personnel design and implement strategies to....
The Effects of Child Maltreatment on Brain Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau
1 Hours
This CEU course provides information on typical brain development and the potential effects of abuse and neglect on that development. The information in this course is designed to help professionals understand the emotional, mental, and behavioral impact of early abuse and neglect in children who come to the attention of the ch....
Women and Trauma
Industry Specialist
5 Hours
This course provides background on women and trauma by taking an important first step of describing the level of violence against women and girls in our society and exploring its consequences. This course illustrates the importance of listening to and incorporating the voices of people who have been directly impacted by trauma,....
Screening for Drug Use in Medical Settings
Industry Specialist
2 Hours
This course is intended to provide in general medical settings the screening tools and procedures necessary to conduct screening, brief intervention, and/or treatment referral for patients who may have or be at risk of developing a substance use disorder. *This course is not approved for NBCC renewal.
Special Considerations in Trauma Nursing
Erik J. Usher, RN, BS, CEN, CPEN, EMT-P, CFRN
13 Hours
After an introduction to the etiology of trauma and components of a trauma care system, this course highlights special considerations beyond the initial assessment of the trauma patient. These considerations include areas of high-risk and special populations seen in trauma care. Shock states and burn/cold trauma require specia....
Skin Cancer
Suzanne Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN, AGN-BC
3 Hours
Skin cancer is a major public health problem. There are more than 5.4 million cases of basal cell skin cancer, squamous cell skin cancer, Merkel cell skin cancer, keratoacanthoma, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, and cutaneous lymphoma skin cancer annually, and the incidence rates of melanoma have been increasing for at least th....
Understanding Elder Abuse
Shelly L. Jackson, Ph.D. and Thomas L. Hafemeister, J.D., Ph.D.
1 Hours
This CE course provides a summary of each elder abuse theory and its possible application. In addition, the theoretical directions suggested are intended to spur the critique of existing theories and facilitate the development of new theories that will enhance the understanding of elder abuse. Of the many types of elder abuse,....
Supporting Pregnant Domestic Violence Survivors in Shelters
Fern Gilkerson, M.A. and Kenya Fairley, M.S.Ed., C.D. (DONA)
1 Hours
Pregnant women’s experiences and needs for emotional support, physical well-being, access to healthcare and other community-based services are significantly different from women who are not pregnant. This CEU course provides information on the impact of trauma in pregnancy and childbirth.
Why do we need new options for managing FH?
Atul Kalhan - Vinay Eligar - Alan Rees
In patients with both homozygous and heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), statins with or without ezetimibe are now the mainstay pharmacological therapy for lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, combined with lipoprotein apheresis in homozygotes and statin-refractory heterozygotes. These thera....
What’s new in FH genetics?
Steve E Humphries - Marta Futema
Recent advances in next generation sequencing (NGS) have reduced costs and made genetic diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) quicker. This article reviews some of the technological breakthroughs in DNA testing in FH and benefits to patients and clinicians. This CPD module was published 15 Dec 2015 for a UK audien....
When Writing a Script Just Isn’t Enough: Strategies to Overcome Barriers Associated with Poor Asthma Control in Older Adults
Dr. Tolly Epstein (MD MS FAAAAI), Dr. Dennis K. Ledford (MD FAAAAI), and Dr. Carol A. Saltoun
1.25 Hours
Provide participants with evidence-based approaches to improve asthma control in older adults, with consideration for both medication and non-medication related strategies. Approaches to distinguish asthma symptoms from co-morbid illness, as well as strategies to safely and effectively manage older asthmatics with particular phy....
Zeroing in on the Patient to Reduce Alert Fatigue
Charlie M. Hart III, PharmD
0.5 Hours
Nobody wants a patient to die or experience harm from a medication problem. That’s why hospitals need to warn clinicians of potentially dangerous situations via alerting functions deployed within the EMR. The problem is that these warnings are triggered too often, and at the wrong time in the workflow, so clinicians ignore them....
Diagnosis & Management of Functional Constipation & Diarrhea
Thomas Curran, MD, MPH
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.
Fad Diets: Shortcomings, Dangers, and Sustainable Alternatives
Kate Bennett, MS, RDN, LDN
This lecture was recorded during the SCAPA 2020 Fall CME Conference and is approved for 1 hour of CME by the AAPA Review Panel. AAPA is an acceptable CE provider for AANPCP.
Common Lower 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.
Structured Handoffs Improve the Care of the Critically Ill (Patient Safety Highlights 2016)
Dr. Michael F. O'Connor and Dr. Steven Greenberg
1.00 Hours
This course outlines the evidence supporting communication as a top source of medical errors, as well as the hypothesis that unstructured handoffs decrease patient safety and the advantages/disadvantages of electronic medical record handoff integration.
Turning Off the Gas: The Aging Anesthesiologist (2017 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology)
Jonathan D. Katz, M.D.
1.00 Hours
The population of the United States is aging. As recently as 1990, there were some 31 million Americans older than 65 years of age—less than 13% of the population. By 2016, that segment of the population had grown to more than 48 million—close to 15% of the U.S. total. Life expectancy has also increased in those years. In 1990,....
The GP's Perspective of Physical Medicine with Dr Malcolm Kendrick
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick provides us with an in-depth discussion on the GP's perspective of physical medicine.