Cultural Competence: An Overview
Culture serves as a lens through which patients and practitioners filter their experiences and perceptions.
Category
  • Cultural Competency
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
  • 2.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Frontotemporal Dementia
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of degenerative brain disorders causing progressive deterioration in behavior, language, and/or movement. There are presently approximately 60,000 people with FTD in the United States.
Category
  • Cognitive Impairment
  • Pharmacology
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Domestic and Sexual Violence
Victims of domestic and sexual violence suffer emotional, psychological, and physical abuse, all of which can result in both acute and chronic signs and symptoms of physical and mental disease, illness, and injury.
Category
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 5.00 ANCC
  • 5.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Assessment and Management of Pain at the End of Life
Because pain is frequently encountered in the palliative and hospice care environments, a knowledge of appropriate diagnosis and alleviation is vital to all members of the interdisciplinary team.
Category
  • Pain Management: End of Life
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Domestic Violence: The Kentucky Requirement
Because of the number of individuals affected, it is likely that most healthcare professionals will encounter patients in their practice who are victims/survivors of domestic violence.
Category
  • Domestic Violence
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.00 ANCC
  • 3.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Human Trafficking and Exploitation
Today, some label human trafficking as a form of "modern day slavery," and frequently, human trafficking has been linked to sex work and prostitution, although there are other forms of trafficking, such as forced labor and domestic work.
Category
  • Human Trafficking
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 5.00 ANCC
  • 5.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

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