Strategies to Stop the Cycle of Nurse Bullying
Industry Specialists
1 Hours
Get the tools, practice experience and strategies you need to successfully identify and address nurse bullying in the workplace.
Understanding the Biology of Ageing
Georgina Casey
What causes ageing? Why do some older adults become very frail, while others are still running marathons at ninety? How can we promote healthy ageing for our patients? When will research provide us with genuinely effective anti-ageing therapies? By 2050, 21 per cent of the world’s population (two billion people) will be aged 60....
Understanding Antibiotics & the Rise of Superbugs
Georgina Casey
How do antibiotics work? Why do they cause resistance and superinfections? What can we do to promote proper use of antibiotics? The discovery of antibiotics in the mid-20th century is arguably the greatest advance in health care of modern times. The ability to prevent or treat bacterial infections has contributed to declines....
What to Do When Diabetes Affects Your Mood
Patria Alguila and Ileana Ponce-Gonzalez, MD, MPH, CNC
1 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 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.
The Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care
Debra Pinals, MD and Doris Fuller, MFA
2 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.
Trauma and Urban Poverty
Family-Informed Trauma Treatment Center, Laurel Kiser, Ph.D., M.B.A
5 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.
Viral Hepatitis: Overview
Industry Specialist
1 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.
Trauma Awareness
Kathleen Guarino, LMHC
2 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 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....
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....
Breaking bad news
Clare Warnock
0.50 Hours
The breaking of bad news was traditionally regarded to be the time when a doctor and nurse sat down with a patient and family members to provide information about, for example, a life-limiting diagnosis or a poor prognosis. However, breaking bad news is now generally accepted as a process, not a one-off event, and is considered....
Managing chronic pain in adults
Janette Barrie and Diane Loughlin
0.50 Hours
The management of chronic pain is complex. Services and support for people living with chronic pain are variable despite the publication of a number of reports highlighting the problem. Due to the epidemiology of pain, nurses deliver care to patients with persistent pain in a variety of settings. It is important that nurses have....
HIV Update Special Populations
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This short CE course on HIV and Special Populations is an update from the Center for Disease Control and addresses new data related to special populations in the United States. *This course is not approved for NBCC renewal.
Management of Heart Failure
Cassandra Vale, BPharm, GradCert ClinPharm
1.00 Hours
This CPE, titled Management of Heart Failure, is designed for pharmacists and will update participants on the treatment options available for the treatment of heart failure and the management of heart failure etiologies and comorbidities. To Receive Credit: You will be required to view the CPE article and take an exam at th....
Biologics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Karen Watkins, BPharm, MTeach
1.00 Hours
This educational activity was designed to discuss treatment goals and the use of biologics in inflammatory bowel disease. This activity was developed and accredited in Australia and was designed to address competencies described by the National Competencies Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia (2016). As such....
Erectile dysfunction and sexual activity – windows to the heart
Dr Brett MacFarlane BPharm, Hons, PhD, FACP, MPS
0.75 Hours
Designed to build on pharmacists existing knowledge of erectile dysfunction and the implications of ED for cardiovascular system health. This activity was developed and accredited in Australia and was designed to address competencies described by the National Competencies Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia (2016....