Use of femoral nerve blocks in adults with hip fractures
Mandy Jane Layzell
Healthcare professionals will be aware of the need to improve treatment of hip fractures, with the ultimate goal of returning the individual to pre-injury health. Patients with hip fractures awaiting surgery can experience severe pain that may be difficult to relieve with traditional analgesics. Physical assessment and essential....
Guidance on pursuing a career in nursing research
Tonks (Josephine) Nicola Fawcett and Corrienne McCulloch
Nursing is an evidence-based profession that uses the latest and best research to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes. Nursing research is needed to generate knowledge and develop nursing care. Despite this, the role of the research nurse is poorly understood and appreciated. This learning module discusses the importan....
Viral Hepatitis: Overview
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This course is based on a chapter taken from TIP manual #53: Addressing Virual Hepatitis in People with Substance Use Disorders by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. This chapter covers a basic overview of Viral Hepatitis A, B and C. *This course is not approved for NBCC renewal.
The Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care
Debra Pinals, MD and Doris Fuller, MFA
2.00 Hours
This CE course addresses the public policy recommendations for reducing the human and economic costs associated with severe mental illness by building and invigorating a robust, interconnected, evidence-based system of care that goes beyond beds.
Women Who Inject Drugs: Risks Experiences and Needs
Anna Roberts LL.B, MIPH, et al.
6.00 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.
3.00 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.
The Effects of Child Maltreatment on Brain Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau
1.00 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
5.00 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,....
Suicide - Assessment, Management and Treatment
Industry Specialist
6.00 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
6.00 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
10.00 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....
Screening for Drug Use in Medical Settings
Industry Specialist
2.00 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.
Trauma and Urban Poverty
Family-Informed Trauma Treatment Center, Laurel Kiser, Ph.D., M.B.A
5.00 Hours
This white paper reviews the clinical and research literatures on the impact of trauma in the context of urban poverty on the family system including the individual child or adult, adult intimate partnership, parent-child, siblings and intergenerational relationships, as well as the family as a whole.
Trauma Awareness
Kathleen Guarino, LMHC
2.00 Hours
This course explores several main elements that influence why people respond differently to trauma; the contextual and systemic dynamics that influence individual and community perceptions of trauma and its impact; types of trauma; objective and subjective characteristics of trauma; and individual and sociocultural features that....
Suicide Prevention in Senior Living Communities
Industry Specialist
5.00 Hours
This course provides an understanding of suicide prevention in senior living communities by raising awareness of the issue of suicide among older adults and learning how to recognize and respond to a resident who is at risk of suicide. This course emphasizes the importance of paying attention to residents' behaviors and emotion....
Sex Trafficking: A Gender Based Civil Rights Violation
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
11.00 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....
Serving LGBT Youth and Adult Populations
Industry Specialist
1.00 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....
Supporting Responsible Fatherhood
Industry Specialist
2.00 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....
How to manage a choking adult
Elizabeth Simpson
Choking, or foreign body airway obstruction, is a common, yet treatable, cause of accidental death. This article aims to provide an overview of the skills required when faced with this emergency in adults, including how to recognise this emergency, the immediate management and treatment required, and the necessary aftercare.....
Supporting the establishment and maintenance of lactation for mothers of sick infants
Elaine Harris
Breastfeeding is the healthiest way for a woman to feed her infant. The World Health Organization/United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund () launched the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in maternity services. However, this initiative focuses on healthy and full-term....
Assessment and management of patients with ankle injuries
Jennie Walker
Foot and ankle injuries are common and can have a significant effect on an individual's daily activities. Nurses have an important role in the assessment, management, ongoing care and support of patients with ankle injuries. An understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the ankle enables nurses to identify significant injuri....
Understanding Elder Abuse
Shelly L. Jackson, Ph.D. and Thomas L. Hafemeister, J.D., Ph.D.
1.00 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,....
What to Do When Diabetes Affects Your Mood
Patria Alguila and Ileana Ponce-Gonzalez, MD, MPH, CNC
1.00 Hours
In this webinar participants will be able to identify the Health Resource Services Administration performance measures related to depression, describe symptoms of depression, understand how to encourage patients to control and manage their diabetes and depression, and understand the principle barriers faced by patients in the....
Understanding Drug Metabolism and Elimination
Georgina Casey
Termination of drug action is an essential step in drug therapy. One of the key roles of the liver is to alter the chemical structure of foreign compounds—drugs and other toxins—allowing their excretion from the body. Drug metabolism occurs in two phases. These may be affected by developmental stage and age, by disease processes....
Supporting People with Autism
Industry Specialists
2.00 Hours
Autism can be defined as a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with and relates to other people and the world around them. As a Neurodevelopmental disorder, autism is not curable, but there are lots of ways in which you can help an autistic person and their family.