This one (1) hour course will provide healthcare professionals with information about Abusive Head Trauma (AHT).

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define abusive head trauma.

✔️ Delineate the most common injuries associated with abusive head trauma.

✔️ Describe predisposing factors and causes of abusive head trauma.

✔️ Compare diagnostic tests used to confirm a diagnosis of abusive head trauma.

✔️ Describe ways to prevent abusive head.

The purpose of this (4) hour course is to give the learner information regarding preparation for and response to bioterrorism. Although this course is designed to meet the Nevada state requirements, healthcare workers everywhere may benefit from the information provided in this module. For the purposes of this course, bioterrorism will include more than just biological agents. Discussion will include biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear weapons. This course will take you through real-life scenarios where you will be tested on your steps to be prepared and respond to bioterrorism. 

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define terrorism.

✔️ Define bioterrorism.

✔️ Delineate the categories of bioterrorism agents.

✔️ Delineate the categories of personal protective equipment.

✔️ Define Syndromic Surveillance and reporting procedures for acts of terrorism that involve biological agents.

✔️ Delineate information available on the Health Alert Network.

The purpose of this (1) hour course is to educate Mandated reporters. Mandated reporters are professionals who have regular contact with children and are therefore legally required to report suspected child abuse.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ What the law requires of you as a mandated reporter.

✔️ How to spot indicators of possible child abuse or neglect.

✔️ How to talk to children about suspected abuse.

✔️ How to make a report.

✔️ What happens after a report is filed.

✔️ Special issues related to child abuse reporting in the school environment.

This (2) hour course will provide the California healthcare worker with the knowledge and resources to prevent and report sexual harassment.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Discuss key California legislation regarding sexual harassment in the healthcare setting.

✔️ Define sexual harassment under California and Federal laws.

✔️ Describe the complaint process in your healthcare facility.

✔️ Differentiate the roles of the manager and staff.

✔️ Discuss the legal remedies and complaint process through the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and provide contact information.

The purpose of this (3) hour course is to provide an overview of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), its causes, diagnosis, latest management guidelines and therapeutic interventions.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define Alzheimer’s disease.

✔️ Discuss the prevalence of the disease.

✔️ Identify modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease.

✔️ Describe how Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed.

✔️ Identify two current FDA-approved medications used for the management of Alzheimer’s disease.

✔️ Delineate behaviors which may be exhibited by the patient with Alzheimer’s dementia.

This (2) hour course will provide an overview about various forms of dementia, including causes, diagnosis, management and therapeutic interventions, and outcomes.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define dementia.

✔️ Describe types of dementia.

✔️ Discuss pathophysiological changes which occur with dementia.

✔️ Discuss risk factors for each type of dementia.

✔️ Identify the behaviors of each type of dementia.

✔️ Identify current pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies used with dementia patients.

✔️ Explain how dementia is diagnosed.

✔️ Describe cognitive changes associated with other conditions.

✔️ Discuss strategies for interacting with dementia patients.

✔️ Describe the impact of current research and clinical studies.

The purpose of this (1) hour course is to educate healthcare professionals on the symptoms, course, and management of diabetes. The course contains useful information on vulnerable population groups and treatment options.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Identify two risk factors for pre-diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), impaired fasting glucose (IFG), and diabetes.

✔️ Describe the pathophysiology of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

✔️ Describe the pathophysiology of DKA and HHS.

✔️ Identify two tools for monitoring treatment therapies.

✔️ Describe current medications, use, side effects, and outcomes in the treatment of diabetes.

✔️ Summarize current standards of care for patients with diabetes.

✔️ List two lifestyle recommendations for patients at risk for diabetes.

This (1) hour course will inform healthcare professionals regarding the role of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and the science of forensic evidence collection.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define the term forensic and describe the importance of forensic evidence collection.

✔️ Identify forensic principles.

✔️ Describe forensic nursing.

✔️ Describe components of a sexual assault exam.

✔️ Define Chain-of-Custody and its importance .

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to provide information to healthcare professionals about human trafficking. An overview of the problem, identification and interventions for victims of human trafficking will be discussed.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Identify the types of human trafficking.

✔️ Describe risk factors for becoming victims of human trafficking and how to identify victims.

✔️ Explain community resources available to assist victims of human trafficking.

✔️ Discuss reporting of human trafficking victim's legal implications.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define sexual harassment in accordance with: Public Act 101-0221 of the Illinois Human Rights Act (IHRA), Section 2-156-010 of the Municipal Code of Chicago

✔️ Identify examples of unlawful sexual harassment in workplace settings.

✔️ Explain who is required to complete sexual harassment prevention and bystander intervention training under Illinois and Chicago legislation.

✔️ Describe employers’ legal and ethical responsibilities in preventing, responding to, and documenting incidents of sexual harassment.

✔️ Discuss penalties and legal consequences for individuals and organizations found to have committed or permitted unlawful sexual harassment.

✔️ Define the role of the bystander in preventing workplace harassment and promoting a respectful, accountable work environment.

✔️ Demonstrate knowledge of safe and effective bystander intervention techniques, including direct, distract, delegate, and delay strategies.

This (1) hour course will help all Illinois Mandated Reporters understand their critical role in protecting children by recognizing and reporting child abuse. Everyone who suspects child abuse or neglect should call the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Child Abuse Hotline to make a report, but Mandated Reporters are required by law to do so.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Better recognize the signs of child abuse and neglect.

✔️ Define the types of child abuse and neglect.

✔️ Determine what professions/individuals are mandated to report.

✔️ Know your role as a Mandated Reporter.

✔️ Understand your legal obligations as a Mandated Reporter.

✔️ Know when and how to report abuse and/or neglect to the Hotline.

✔️ Identify the steps and tools to use when making a child abuse report.

✔️ Identify which groups of children may be at a higher risk of being abused or neglected.

✔️ Understand the process that occurs after a hotline call is made.

The Illinois Sexual Assault and Medical Forensic Services (2) hour training being provided by the Office of the Illinois Attorney General SANE Program will meet the mandatory continuing education requirement for responding to sexual assault survivors as addressed in the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act (410 ILCS 70/2).

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Describe current sexual assault epidemiology.

✔️ Review the Neurobiology of Trauma.

✔️ Review current Illinois legislation that mandates the care and services to be provided to Illinois sexual assault survivors, including child sexual assault survivors.

✔️ Demonstrate the steps of performing a medical forensic exam, including the evidence collection kit.

✔️ Evaluate how to screen for and treat a patient who may have experienced a drug-facilitated sexual assault.

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to give you information about the definition and effects of intimate partner violence (IPV), how to screen for IPV in the healthcare setting, and how to provide appropriate nursing interventions. The course includes information about responding to and documenting abuse, making appropriate referrals within the healthcare setting and in the community, and developing an appropriate safety plan.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define intimate partner violence.

✔️ Identify common mental and physical health effects of IPV.

✔️ Identify the rationale for routine assessment of women for IPV in the healthcare setting.

✔️ Describe key components of a physical and mental health assessment for abused women.

✔️ Identify appropriate community and healthcare referrals for abused women.

The purpose of this (3) hour course is to provide education and training regarding recognition, reporting, and legal responsibilities under Kentucky legislation for domestic violence.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Describe the distinct types of domestic violence.

✔️ Identify why domestic violence occurs.

✔️ Identify environmental and individual risk factors associated with domestic violence.

✔️ Describe the long-term effects of living with domestic violence.

✔️ Describe the signs and symptoms of domestic violence.

✔️ Identify the legal responsibilities of nurses for reporting domestic violence.

✔️ Identify appropriate communication protocols for domestic violence screening.

✔️ Identify measures for domestic violence prevention and available community resources.

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to provide a brief overview of pain and discuss assessment and management of acute pain conditions utilizing the American Society of Pain Management Nurses Guidelines, The American Pain Society Guidelines, and the Joint Commission Standards.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Review basic physiology of pain.

✔️ Identify appropriate components of pain assessment including the use of age-appropriate pain scales and opioid-induced sedation scales.

✔️ Identify management options, including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions to alleviate acute pain.

✔️ Correctly interpret the Joint Commission Pain Standards.

✔️ Discuss common barriers to effective pain management.

The purpose of this (3) hour course is to provide information about child maltreatment, abuse, and neglect.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Identify key legislation in New York that addresses child abuse.

✔️ Define what constitutes abuse, maltreatment, and neglect in the state of New York.

✔️ Describe the behavioral and environmental characteristics of abusive parents or caretakers and abused or neglected children.

✔️ Identify physical and behavioral indicators of physical abuse.

✔️ Identify physical and behavioral indicators of maltreatment and neglect.

✔️ Contrast the physical and behavioral indicators of sexual abuse.

✔️ Describe situations in which mandated reporters must report suspected cases of child abuse or maltreatment.

✔️ Outline the proper procedure for making a report of suspected child abuse.

✔️ Describe the legal protections afforded reporters and consequences for failing to report.

✔️ Describe reasons why child abuse is under-reported and ways to prevent abuse.

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to assure that licensed, registered, or certified health professionals comply with the Infection Control Training as mandated by the New York legislature, Chapter 786 of the Laws of 1992 and revised in 2018.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Define the professional's responsibility to adhere to infection prevention practices.

✔️ Discuss the professional’s responsibility to monitor infection prevention practices and control practice of the personnel they are responsible for.

✔️ Describe the modes and mechanisms of transmission of pathogens and strategies for prevention and control.

✔️ Describe specific high-risk practices that increase the risk of exposure to potentially infectious material and methods to reduce this risk.

✔️ Describe when and how to use personal protective equipment to prevent exposure.

✔️ Discuss the role of effective cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization in disease transmission.

✔️ Identify occupational health strategies for prevention and treatment of communicable disease.

This course will educate employees about their rights and responsibilities in the workplace to prevent sexual harassment. The training also aims to create a culture of respect and accountability in the workplace.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ What constitutes sexual harassment under state and federal law.

✔️ How to differentiate between different types of harassment.

✔️ How to report incidents: What to do if sexual harassment occurs.

✔️ How to step in to help during a situation of sexual harassment.

✔️ What the consequences are for engaging in sexual harassment.

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to give nurses knowledge regarding the rules and laws necessary to practice in the state of Florida.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Describe the legislative purpose for the Nurse Practice Act.

✔️ Verbalize specific laws and rules related to the practice of nursing and nursing assisting.

✔️ Identify the pertinent levels of nursing practice in the State and the general scope of practice of each.

✔️ Discuss the general requirements for continuing licensure in the State.

✔️ Differentiate between ethical and legal practice.

✔️ Discuss the process for discipline related to nursing practice.

✔️ Create a professional plan for career maintenance and development within the limits of the law.

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to provide healthcare professionals with information to recognize and report impairment in the workplace including treatment options and mandatory reporting.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Discuss the risk factors for substance use disorder in the healthcare profession.

✔️ Identify the signs of impairment in the workplace.

✔️ Delineate employer initiatives to promote safety and aid impaired staff.

✔️ Delineate the essential steps to make a report or referral.

✔️ Identify the barriers to self-reporting substance use disorder.

✔️ Discuss the regulations surrounding substance use disorder reporting and treatment.

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to discuss the concepts of ethics, morals, and jurisprudence as they pertain to nursing.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Discuss the Texas Nurse Practice Act.

✔️ Discuss the Texas BON Position Statements.

✔️ Discuss the Texas Board of Nursing rules and regulations.

✔️ Apply the four principles of nursing ethics.

✔️ Discuss violations and disciplinary actions related to the violations.

The purpose of this (3) hour course is to provide healthcare professionals with information regarding the safe administration and dispensing of controlled substances to patients, and the abuse or misuse of illicit drugs in West Virginia (WV). This presentation is divided into 2 sections: Section I covers the safe and effective prescribing, administration and dispensing of controlled substances, and section II deals with drug diversion training.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Explain the epidemiology of chronic pain and misuse/risks of abusing opioids.

✔️ Describe addictive symptomatology and the use of risk evaluation and mitigation strategy in opioid safety management.

✔️ Discuss the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program.

✔️ Review the development of a comprehensive patient evaluation and treatment plan.

✔️ Identify drug diversion and drug seeking tactics and behaviors.

✔️ Review methods to minimize drug diversion.

✔️ Outline best practice methods for collaborating with patients suspected of drug seeking behavior and diversion.

✔️ Discuss best practice methods for collaborating with colleagues suspected of drug seeking behavior and diversion.

✔️ Describe the 5 drug diversion prevention laws in WV.

The purpose of this (2) hour course is to provide a brief review of pain components and discuss assessment and management of chronic pain conditions.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Review basic physiology of pain.

✔️ Review appropriate components of pain assessment.

✔️ Discuss common barriers to effective pain management.

✔️ Identify management options, including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions to alleviate chronic pain.

✔️ Discuss common barriers to effective pain management.