Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Frontotemporal Dementia
  • Cognitive Impairment
  • Pharmacology
  • 2.00 ASWB
$15.00
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. Onset generally occurs between 50 and 70 years of age, making FTD one of the most common presenile dementias. FTD affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which control emotions, judgment, personality, memory and language. The clinical diagnosis of FTD can be challenging, as some symptoms overlap with Alzheimer disease and other forms of dementia.
Frontotemporal Dementia
  • Cognitive Impairment
  • Pharmacology
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
$15.00
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. Onset generally occurs between 50 and 70 years of age, making FTD one of the most common presenile dementias. FTD affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which control emotions, judgment, personality, memory and language. The clinical diagnosis of FTD can be challenging, as some symptoms overlap with Alzheimer disease and other forms of dementia.
Domestic and Sexual Violence
  • 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.
Mandatory Reporting Training for Physicians and Psychiatrists (MD/DO) 2023-2024
  • 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. 
Communication and People with Dementia
  • 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.
Assessment and Management of Pain at the End of Life
  • Pain Management: End of Life
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
$15.00
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. A comprehensive discussion of these topics will provide the knowledge base necessary for all members of the interprofessional team to better understand the varied needs of their patients during the end-of-life period and to be better equipped to address those needs.
Assessment and Management of Pain at the End of Life
  • Pain Management: End of Life
  • 2.00 ASWB
$15.00
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. A comprehensive discussion of these topics will provide the knowledge base necessary for all members of the interprofessional team to better understand the varied needs of their patients during the end-of-life period and to be better equipped to address those needs.
Domestic Violence: The Kentucky Requirement
  • 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.
Kentucky: Suicide Prevention, 2 units
  • 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 and Exploitation
  • 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.

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