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- State Mandated Training
- Mandated Reporter
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 ANCC
- 3.00 ASWB
$21.00
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.
- Cultural Competency
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.00 ANCC
- 2.00 ASWB
$15.00
Culture serves as a lens through which patients and practitioners filter their experiences and perceptions. Patients will bring their unique life stories and concerns to the practitioner, and their cultural values and belief systems will inevitably shape how the problem is defined and their beliefs about what is effective in solving the problem.
- 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 5.00 ANCC
- 5.00 ASWB
$35.00
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. Frequently, the injuries sustained require abused victims to seek care from healthcare professionals immediately after their victimization. Subsequently, physicians and nurses are often the first healthcare providers that victims encounter and are in a critical position to identify victims in a variety of clinical practice settings where victims receive care.
- State Mandated Training
- Mandated Reporter
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$50.00
The mandatory training is required by Section 1723 of the Medical Practice Act, effective August 1, 2010.
- Cognitive Impairment
- 1.00 ANCC
$20.00
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. In this course, you will learn how to understand the person with dementia by knowing them as an individual and recognizing common speech patterns, how persons with dementia use behaviors for communicating discomfort, and the communication strategies you can employ to ensure the person receives your message.
- Prescribing: Opioid(s)
- Risk Management
- Pharmacology
- 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 15.00 ANCC
$105.00
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. The goal of this course is provide clinicians with an understanding of the essential components of appropriate opioid prescribing.
- Domestic Violence
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 ANCC
- 3.00 ASWB
$21.00
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. Accordingly, it is essential that healthcare professionals are taught to recognize and accurately interpret behaviors associated with domestic violence. It is incumbent upon the healthcare professional to establish and implement protocols for early identification of domestic violence victims/survivors and their abusers.
- Suicide
- 2.00 Contact hours
$19.00
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. The course also discusses pathways to care for nurses at risk for suicide that addresses screening, assessing, safety planning, referrals, and follow-up.
- Human Trafficking
- 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 5.00 ANCC
- 5.00 ASWB
$30.00
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. 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.
- Medical Ethics
- 1.00 AANP Contact Hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
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.