Supporting Families Impacted by Mental Health Problems, Substance Abuse, and Trauma
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Beth Maschinot, Ph.D., Julie Cohen, M.S.W
5.00 Hours
Besides the difficult task of raising children—often while working full-time, many caregivers deal with added stressors such as mental health problems, substance abuse, and a history of trauma. The aim of this course is to build a responsive community: a community that has as its goal to respond as sensitively to the needs of a....
Skin Care for the Elderly
Damion Keith Jenkins
1.00 Hours
This Skin Care for the Elderly course will provide participants with a review of the basic safety considerations and guidelines necessary to maintain healthy skin and prevent skin breakdown in elderly clients, patients and residents. This review can be utilized for nursing assistive personnel throughout all healthcare settings,....
Surgery Choices for Women with DCIS or Breast Cancer
Industry Specialists
1.00 Hours
This course was developed from the National Cancer Institute booklet which is a resource for women who have ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or breast cancer that can be removed with surgery. The booklet discusses: facts about DCIS and breast cancer; surgery choices; lymph nodes, lymphedema, and sentinel lymph node biopsy.
Social Phobia as a MisCommunication Disorder
Sabrina Danti.
1.00 Hours
Recently, a differential recruitment of brain areas throughout the distributed neural system for face perception has been found in social phobic patients as compared to healthy control subjects. This advanced CE course explores whether functional connectivity networks among brain regions within the distributed system for face p....
The Treatment of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorders
Sharon Amatetti, Elaine Stedt, Nancy K. Young, Kari Earle, and Erin Hall.
3.50 Hours
The pattern of initiating heroin use has changed over the past decade and when pregnant women use opioids, their infants may be affected. This CE course provides background information on the treatment of pregnant women with opioid use disorders, summarizes key aspects of guidelines that have been adopted by professional organi....
Tips for Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's
Industry Specialists
1.00 Hours
This course is a support guide for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. It offers "best practices" for people who have taken on the role of caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease. It includes ways to minmize stress and make the most of all of the situations such people encounter daily, such as communication, bathing, dressin....
Science of End of Life and Palliative Care
Industry Specialists
10.00 Hours
This course focuses on guiding leaders in end-of-life and palliative care regarding the trends within the published scientific literature and the sources of private- and public-sector support for this research. The purpose of this course is to present information on the nature and extent of published EOL PC research themes with....
Updating Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management
Keith D’Oria and Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, FACE
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....
Fundamentals of chronic pain in children and young people: multimodal treatment
Paula A Forgeron and Jennifer Stinson
1.00 Hours
Chronic pain is common in childhood and can have severe physical and psychological consequences but, unlike acute pain, it is not always recognised by nurses and other health professionals. A holistic and multidisciplinary approach to treatment is required and nurses can play a significant role in helping children and families t....
Searching and critiquing the research literature
Ann Wakefield
1.00 Hours
This learning module explores how to search and critique the research literature. This involves explaining how to generate a robust literature review question, search databases in the most effective manner and produce a robust analysis of the literature. The module also outlines how a novice literature reviewer might develop the....
Writing a continuing professional development article for publication
Bob Price
1.00 Hours
Writing for journal publication is a worthwhile but challenging activity that requires clear motives, purpose, planning and execution. Continuing professional development (CPD) articles are designed to be informative and educative, with the aim of enhancing the reader's understanding of a particular subject. This learning module....
The importance of the arterial pulse in advanced cardiac examination
Christopher Nicholson
The pulse is a significant indicator of health and can provide valuable information to help make an accurate diagnosis. All nurses should be competent in taking and interpreting the pulse, and developing their expertise in this vital sign. Arterial pulses can be examined at various sites, and this article focuses on techniques f....
Supporting patients in shared decision making in clinical practice
Claire Madsen and Aileen Fraser
1.00 Hours
This learning module defines shared decision making in patient care and describes the background to this philosophy. The shared decision making approach is part of a wider initiative to promote patient-centred care and increase patient involvement in clinical decisions. Shared decision making recognises patients' rights to make....
Transition of People with Mental or Substance Use Disorders From Jail and Prison
David Morrissette, PhD, LCSW
1.00 Hours
Jails and prisons house significantly greater proportions of individuals with mental, substance use, and co-occurring disorders than are found in the general public. This short CEU course provides examples of the implementation of successful strategies for transitioning people with mental or substance use disorders from institu....
Scabies Protocol in Prison Populations
Federal Bureau of Prisons
1.00 Hours
This CEU course provides recommended procedures for detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of scabies in the correctional setting.
Sexual Violence: Strengthening the Medico-Legal Response
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
1.00 Hours
Medico-legal evidence is at the intersection of medical and justice processes. This CEU course addresses key knowledge gaps within and between sectors, to help support service provision and coordination in low-resource settings.
Suicide Prevention Protocols for Juvenile Justice Youth
Franklin Cook, MA, CPC, et al.
1.00 Hours
Youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system, especially those in residential facilities, have higher rates of suicide than their non-system-involved peers. This short CEU course provides guidance on developing and implementing comprehensive suicide prevention policies within juvenile correction facilities.
Screening and Assessment for Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction
Steven Batki, M.D., et al.
4.00 Hours
This CE course describes screening and assessment procedures and important considerations that might be made during and shortly after admission to an OTP, as well as assessment techniques and considerations that are important to ongoing medication assisted treatment (MAT).
Suicide Prevention Training for the Clinical Workforce
Franklin Cook, MA, CPC, et al.
1.00 Hours
Having a competent and confident clinical workforce is critical to reducing the rate of suicide. This CE course provides guidelines for a template to construct a solid training program in suicide prevention, including risk assessment, intervention, monitoring, and follow-up, for those disciplines in the clinical workforce.
Somatic Experiencing: Using Interoception and Proprioception as Core Elements of Trauma Therapy
Mardi Crane-Godreau, Ph.D., et al.
2.00 Hours
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a novel form of therapy that focuses on resolving the symptoms of chronic stress and post-traumatic stress. This advanced CE course demonstrates how the methods of SE help restore functionality to the core response network and provides a possible neurophysiological rationale for the mechanisms invol....
Suicide Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
2.00 Hours
Suicide is a significant public health problem in the United States, with the rates of suicide within some populations being particularly high. This CEU course provides information about suicide clusters and responses in tribal communities; strength-based approaches to prevention, response, and recovery; existing and needed res....
Unlawful Harassment - Employer Liability
Industry Specialist
3.00 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 Use Disorders and Child Maltreatment
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Feidler, M.S.W., Karen Mooney, LCSW, Mary Nak
6.00 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.
Women’s Health Issues
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
8.00 Hours
This report reviews evidence on the health issues that particularly affect girls and women throughout their life course. Despite considerable progress over the past two decades, societies are still failing women at key moments in their lives. These failures are most acute in poor countries, and among the poorest women in all cou....
Use of Anthrax Vaccine in the USA
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
7.00 Hours
Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis (1,2 ). The disease most commonly occurs in wild and domestic mammals (e.g., cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelope, and other herbivores) ( 3). Anthrax occurs in humans when they are exposed to infected animals or tissue from infected animals....