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- 3.00 MOC
- 3.00 Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
- 3.00 ACPE Pharmacy
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 ANCC
- 3.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
$18.00
In 2020, there were 4,593 substantiated reports to child abuse in Pennsylvania. Healthcare professionals, regardless of their discipline or field, are in a unique position to assist in the identification, education, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. This course describes how victims of abuse can be accurately identified and provides the community resources available in the state of Pennsylvania for child abuse victims. Mandated reporter laws will also be outlined.Course Objective
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 6.00 ANCC
- 6.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
$36.00
Suicide is a major preventable public health problem and cause of mortality. This course will review the major aspects of suicide assessment, management, and prevention, with a special focus on military veterans. Primary care contact may represent the last opportunity for intervention in the severely depressed suicidal patient, making the thorough comprehension of identification and treatment of depression and suicide risk imperative. Course Objective
- 2.00 AAPA Category I CME
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.00 ANCC
- 2.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
$15.00
The effects of deployment to military combat on the individual and the family system are wide-reaching and can be severe. Military personnel may confront numerous potentially traumatizing experiences, including military-specific events and those experienced by civilians. Research suggests the most common traumatic events experienced during active duty are witnessing someone badly injured or killed or unexpectedly seeing a dead body.
- 3.00 MOC
- 3.00 Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
- 3.00 ACPE Pharmacy
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 ANCC
- 3.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
$18.00
The role of implicit biases on healthcare outcomes has become a concern as some cite that implicit biases contribute to health disparities, professionals' attitudes toward and interactions with patients, quality of care, diagnoses, and treatment decisions. This course will explore definitions of implicit and explicit bias, the nature and dynamics of implicit biases, and how they can affect health outcomes. Because implicit biases are unconscious, strategies will be reviewed to assist in raising professionals' awareness of and interventions to reduce them.
- 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 15.00 ANCC
- 10.00 Contact hours
$75.00
This course is designed to bridge the gap in knowledge of palliative care by providing an overview of the concept of palliative care and a discussion of the benefits and barriers to optimum palliative care at the end of life. Central to this discussion is an emphasis on the importance of talking to patients about the value of palliative care, of clearly presenting the prognosis and appropriate treatment options and goals, and of ensuring that advance planning is completed.
- 2.00 MOC
- 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.00 ANCC
$15.00
Today, some label human trafficking as a form of "modern day slavery," and frequently, human trafficking has been linked to sex work, although there are other forms of trafficking, such as forced labor and domestic work. Human trafficking can involve women, men, and children. Its victims experience a host of psychological problems, including post-traumatic stress, helplessness, and depression, due to the physical, sexual, and psychological abuse they have experienced. This course encompasses a basic overview of human trafficking.
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.00 ANCC
- 2.00 Contact hours
$15.00
Opioid analgesic medications can bring substantial relief to patients suffering from pain. However, the inappropriate use, abuse, and diversion of prescription drugs in America, particularly prescription opioids, has increased dramatically in recent years and has been identified as a national public health epidemic. Tennessee continues to rank in the top 10 states according to per capita prescription rate for opioids in the United States, and unintentional overdose deaths continue to increase each year.
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgeries (RLSs) have become increasingly common in the past decade alongside conventional laparoscopic surgeries (CLSs). In general, RLSs have been reported to be superior to CLSs; therefore, we compared both methods among patients undergoing an elective colectomy for differences in perioperative factors and postoperative complications.
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
North American pit viper, or crotalid bites, remain a low incidence and potentially high-consequence medical event. Although the venom of these snakes is known to cause tissue, hematologic, and neurologic toxicity, the published literature on North American crotalid bite remains limited.
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
Narrative medicine promotes the effective practice of medicine by requiring clinicians to listen to, reflect on, and manage not only the physiology of disease but also patient stories. The Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine offers a narrative medicine elective to fourth-year students who participate in reading, writing, and discussion activities that focus on processing their medical school experiences.