Communication and People with Dementia
Dementia gradually destroys the areas of the brain responsible for sending and receiving messages, making communication difficult. There are guidelines that you can follow to ensure effective communication with persons with dementia, even those who have severe cognitive impairments.
Category
  • Cognitive Impairment
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 1.00 ANCC
Difficult Conversations: A Case-Based Approach to Managing Patients with Pain and Substance Use Disorder
Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) present specific challenges for the clinician, particularly if they also suffer from pain, either acute or chronic.
Category
  • Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
  • Pharmacology
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 0.58 AANP Contact Hours
  • 0.14 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
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)
Kentucky: Domestic Violence
The scope of domestic violence includes violence against women, children, and elders. This course describes best practices for screening, assessment, and documenting signs of violence when seen in the healthcare setting.
Category
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 3.00 Contact hours
Prescription Opioids: Risk Management and Strategies for Safe Use
This course will extensively cover the various approaches recommended or mandated for use by clinicians who prescribe opioids, in order to reduce risk and improve outcomes.
Category
  • Prescribing: Opioid(s)
  • Risk Management
  • Pharmacology
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 15.00 ANCC
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)
Kentucky: Suicide Prevention, 2 units
This course covers suicide prevention in Kentucky and nationally, including information about warning signs and protective and risk factors. It describes how chronic toxic stress and secondary traumatic stress affects nurses, potentially increasing their risk of suicide.
Category
  • Suicide
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Contact hours
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)
Sexual Misconduct in the Medical Setting: Boundaries in the Clinician-Patient Relationship
Physician sexual misconduct occurs frequently enough and repeatedly that it requires organizational and state medical boards to address the problem through education, and  standard processes to improve reporting and eliminating the problem.
Category
  • Medical Ethics
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 1.00 AANP Contact Hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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