Passive & Active Range of Motion
Industry Specialists
This inservice contains basic information about the musculoskeletal system, especially the joints. Includes a discussion of the causes of joint stiffness and other problems–and how important it is for joints to remain flexible. Describes basic range of motion exercises. GIVES TIPS FOR BOTH PASSIVE AND ACTIVE RANGE OF MOTION!
Understanding Depression
Industry Specialists
This course gives caregivers an overview of the main types and symptoms of depression. It discusses how depression affects people across the lifespan. Caregivers will learn how to communicate with depressed clients, how to recognize and deal with suicidal thoughts and how to give quality daily care to depressed clients.
Recognizing & Managing Catastrophic Reactions
Industry Specialists
Do your caregivers care for clients with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, PTSD or people who have had multiple strokes? If so, it is vital to learn about catastrophic reactions. This inservice defines a catastrophic reaction, discusses common triggers and arms caregivers with the communication and behaviora....
ACEs: Cultivating Roses in a Garden of Adversity
Dr.Timothy Drinkwine
Dr. Drinkwine explains what ACEs are and how they affect learning.
Understanding the Complexities of Substance Use in the Workplace
Dr Mary Sue Howlett
Addiction is a serious workplace issue. Substance use disorders affect approximately 10 percent of the US population, and a reported 75 to 80 percent of individuals suffering with substance use problems are working full or part time. Shame, stigma, and fear of license issues often prevent healthcare professionals from seeking tr....
Pharmacist - National Sterile Compounding Training
Liz Johnson Wilroy, M.A.Ed, BS, CPhT, PhTR
The goal of this activity is to provide the pharmacist with a general basis of knowledge concerning sterile pharmaceutical products. It provides basic knowledge to develop an understanding of concepts, techniques, and procedures related to the preparation of sterile and hazardous pharmaceutical products.
Soft Skills - The Key to Post-Release Job Retention
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Learn how to develop and offer effective soft skills programming to your offenders. This dynamic course will help you first understand soft skills along with their relationship to offender employment both while working in CI and post-release. You'll then review several certificate-based soft skill programs that have been succe....
Career Resource Centers - An Emerging Strategy for Improving Offender Employment Outcomes
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Prepare your offenders to be workplace ready with a career resource center or CRC. You'll learn how to setup and maintain a CRC that provides resources to help offenders obtain technical certifications, as well as receive post-release job seeking assistance.
Retinopathy of Prematurity : ODO010/010/02/2018; ODO001/009/08/2020 3GEN
Dr Nina Kriel
The course reviews the prevention, detection, classification and treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity.
Trauma and the Brain
Ms Kathryn (Bedard) Townsend LCADC, MA
What happens inside of the brain when a traumatic event occurs How trauma shapes our behavior and thought process Techniques to help bring relief to individuals with trauma
Brain Building Across the Gaps
Thomas Fuhrman
Thomas Fuhrman provides different ways you can meet the needs of High-Poverty Learners, English Language Learners and all learners.
Accessibility: Students with Hearing Loss in the General Education Classroom
Dr. Lynn Hayes
This session will focus on instructional strategies (e.g., acoustic highlighting) that teachers and paraprofessionals can use in the classroom to make it more accessible for students with hearing loss.
Blended Learning: Lessons from the Field
Tim Childers
Various Blended Learning Models are explained including the most important elements that make Blended Learning successful.
ARMD and Micro perimetry
Dr Ramesh Sve Ph D
Microperimetry is a procedure in which retinal sensitivity is assessed while the fundus of the eye is directly examined, enabling exact correlation between macular pathology and corresponding functional defect. Recent reports have documented the use of microperimetry in quantifying macular sensitivity in various macular patholog....
Stem in Early Ed: Would You Hire a First Grader?
Tamera Crews
The educator will learn why learning about STEM careers is critical to a functioning society.
VISUAL FIELDS ODO001/008/11/2017 ; ODO 001/004/08/2020 2GEN
Dr Nina Kriel
Under normal photopic conditions, a typical binocular field of vision is about 120º vertically and 160º horizontally. From the point of fixation, we can see about 60º superiorly, 70º inferiorly, 60º nasally, and 100º temporally, depending on our facial features, attributes of the stimulus (size, brightness, motion) and the back....
DIABETES DID YOU KNOW? ODO001/005/11/2017; ODO001/005/08/2020 1 ETHICS, 2 GENERAL
Dr Nina Kriel
The incidence of diabetes – in other words, the rate at which people become diabetic – has increased by 90% in the past 10 years in the US. In Asia, as in some parts of Africa, DMII is reaching epidemic proportions due to rapid economic development, urbanisation, lifestyle change and poor nutrition. It is projected that between....
RADIATION AND BLUE LIGHT: ODO001/013/02/2018 ; ODO 001/008/08/2020 3 GEN
Dr Nina Kriel
Understanding potential risks inherent in radiation in order to personalise management in the interest of the patient.
GLAUCOMAODO:001/004/02/2017 ; ODO001/012/07/2020 4 GENERAL
Dr Nina Kriel
We’ve come a long way... There was a time when glaucoma was intraocular pressure over 22 mmHg in patients over 40 and houses had white picket fences. My contemporaries may remember those simpler days, and believe me, we don’t yearn for them. We’ve come a long way. We certainly know a great deal more about glaucoma t....
College, Career and Technical Education: Crucial for Success
Candi Norwood
Candi Norwood explains how CTE has changed and why it is now an integral part of secondary education.
PBL (Project Based Learning) for All
Mary-Owen Holmes
Project and Problem-based learning can bring real-world content into your classroom regardless of the subject being taught.
Worth 4 dot test - optometry
Miss Patel Avina
Description of worth four dot test; set up, procedure, important questions, possible responses, interpretation and recording
Remote Learning: Tools for Engagement
Tim Childers
Online teaching expert, Tim Childers, shows you not only how to access students online but show you how to keep students engaged during various online platforms.
Online Learning for Littles
Natalie Beach
This course will provide strategies for teaching grades PreK-1 from a distance learning perspective.
Educator Mental Health Series: Understanding Depression
Dr. Betty Kohal
This session gives an overview of depression.