Here is a listing of courses currently offered. Choose a course, read it, and take the test. It couldn’t be easier to earn your CEUs.
Bariatrics - Managing the Obese Client
2 CEUs
The numbers of individuals who are considered obese and morbidly obese are increasing rapidly, and there is no indication that the numbers will decrease at any time in the near future. “Bariatrics’ is the term used to refer to healthcare as it relates to the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity. It is not uncommon that as a healthcare provider, you may serve a client who weighs between 300 and 700 pounds. Managing the needs of the bariatric client can be time-consuming, costly, and complex; therefore, it is important that there be an interdisciplinary approach to caring for the needs of the obese client.
Body Language: Tips and Tricks for Caregivers
2 CEUs
The importance of effective communication is sometimes overlooked in healthcare settings. Healthcare communication can include verbal and nonverbal aspects. This continuing education course will focus on a particular portion of the nonverbal realm, that of body language. The intentions of this course are to define and outline basic components of communication, to specifically investigate body language, to discuss pitfalls routinely encountered with these sorts of exchanges and to provide body language tips and techniques that can be used by all caregivers.
Common Precautions for the Healthcare Professional
1 CEU
This course is designed to review common types of precautions that health care professionals often utilize when treating a variety of clients. Precautions covered include standard/universal precautions, isolation precautions, fall precautions, sternal precautions, hip precautions, weight bearing precautions, and common precautions when treating a person with deep vein thrombosis or lymphedema. In addition, precautions to remember when treating a client utilizing cold and heat modalities are also reviewed. The course will give the healthcare provider a general understanding of the above precautions while recognizing that it is their professional responsibility to follow individual physician recommendations at all times.
End of Life Care
2 CEUs
End-of-life care refers to the interventions and treatment given to individuals in the final stages of their life following disability or a disease process. Also referred to as palliative care, hospice care, comfort care, or supportive care, healthcare professionals must be comfortable with it. The care of the dying patient should be guided by the values and preferences of the patient. Independence and dignity are vital to many dying patients, and, in addition to other concerns, a focus of end-of-life care is the relief of pain and suffering and interventions that help improve the individual’s quality of life. Many of these principles/interventions are reviewed in this overview of end-of-life care.
If You're Happy and You Know It
1 CEU
If You’re Happy and You Know It is an one hour course that discusses the effects of happiness on our health and well being and how happiness is viewed differently between the sexes. There are approximately 24 traits that happy people have that most other people do not have. There is a brief discussion on how we can impact happiness in our own lives as well.
Making Sense of Health Literacy
1 CEU
This course will introduce information regarding health literacy and will provide strategies for improved health communication skills. It was written for a variety of disciplines. This continuing education opportunity directly relates to clinical practice as it aims to improve the quality of patient/provider interpersonal relationships and the competencies of professionals who encounter individuals with low health literacy skills.
Management of Medical Complexities
2 CEUs
With the aging of our population, the numbers of frail and disabled elderly are increasing dramatically. Many of the frail elderly have multiple medical conditions. For this reason, it is not uncommon for a therapist to receive a referral to treat an individual for one reason, for example, a hip fracture, but find that the individual’s progress is affected by another co-existing condition such as arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or even dementia. This course will look at the medical complexities that are commonly found in the individuals we treat. In addition, the course will examine how clinicians can incorporate techniques that address the medical complexity and lessen and/or manage its effect on the rehabilitation process.
Networking 101: What It Is and What You Need to Know
1 CEU
This course gives participants an introduction to networking as a professional development and marketing skill. It will explain the invaluable concept as well as the benefits of practicing networking. Participants will learn basics of networking as well as develop their ability to be a powerful networker.
On a Mission: Developing Your Personal Mission Statement
1 CEU
The value of a personal mission statement is often overlooked but can provide a vital tool for leaders to make decisions, direct their personal and professional decisions, and embrace growth. This continuing education course will describe the importance of a mission statement and offer a guide to creating a personal one. The information described can assist all employees in developing their own statement of purpose and conveying it effectively to others.
Developing A Functional Maintenance Program: A Therapy Perspective
2 CEUs
The purpose of this course is to offer both a rationale for therapy’s role in maintaining function and a system for designing functional maintenance programs for the geriatric client.
This course will look at both the aging population and government regulations that provide both a social and an economic rationale for the importance of maintaining the function of the elderly population, even those that require nursing home services. In addition, this course will review a process for identifying individuals appropriate for maintenance programming and the essential elements for evaluation, treatment planning and functional maintenance program design, education, and follow-up.
Social Media Master Strategy
1 CEU
This workshop aims to assist individuals and business owners with their social media strategy. Going beyond the basics, we will explore your current social media strategy, your content creation process, and your engagement results, and how social media plays a part in your broader marketing strategy.
Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn will be the platform focus for this workshop while we will also examine how social media is currently contributing to your website and search engine optimization.
Team Building
1.5 CEUs
This course is designed to help professionals, from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, to create a cohesive team that works effectively and efficiently together to best serve the needs of our clients. The course will review the rationale for team building, including the benefits derived as well as the barriers that impede the development of an effective team. In addition, common characteristics of good team members are reviewed, including a team building exercise for each characteristic identified. After the learner completes the course, the course can be utilized to provide team building exercises to assist in developing a dynamic team at your workplace!
Beginner Level Blogging for Business
2 CEUs
Our current technological age allows for information at the click of a button. But often what people really want are personal, relatable stories, not unrelatable medical jargon. That is where the medium of blogging comes into play. A blog is a perspective that, when done correctly, can engage a reader into your business base, tell a story, and create a community all in under 1000 words at a time. Sharing a story of success with a patient’s treatment, learning a new technique to use at home, or even learning better self-care are all areas that a blog that can help patients. Join me as I share with you how to start a blog and really build it into a driving force that allows patients, clients, professionals, or other audiences to seek you out and learn about what you have to offer. I will demonstrate effective titles, appropriate use of language to captivate audiences, ways to use keywords to your advantage, how to generate additional income streams, and pitfalls to avoid as you begin telling your story.
Stepping Up Your Brainstorming Game: Beyond Whiteboards and Sticky Notes
2 CEUs
Generating innovative ideas is critical in today’s business world, no matter the industry. A fundamental method of doing this is brainstorming, but so many of us have been trained to brainstorm one way. This course explores the purpose, benefits, and challenges related to brainstorming as well as reviews the traditional method. The course then explores numerous under-utilized but effective ways to produce ideas and bring staff, residents, and other stakeholders together to solve problems and enhance quality.
Music and Leadership
1 CEU
Music therapy is a goal-oriented, individualized therapy that enhances quality of life using music and musical elements as a tool to create a therapeutic change. While the therapy is at times viewed as complimentary, or even a luxury to offer residents, it is evidence-based and contains many elements that can easily apply to management and help leaders become more effective and engaging. This course explores the basic concept of music therapy, several of these transcending elements, and offers ways to incorporate these ideas into leadership practice.
Creating a Service Culture: Developing a Service-Minded Culture
2 CEUs
“We’re in the people business serving coffee, not the coffee business serving people.” – Howard Behar, Former President of Starbucks Coffee
“I tell my employees that we’re in the service business, and it’s incidental that we fly airplanes.” – Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines
“We are a service company that happens to sell shoes.” – Tony Hsieh, Former CEO of Zappos
The people listed above understood that a company in its most basic definition is something that provides a service. They understood the importance of embedding a service first culture in every level of their organization, including both internal and external customers.
When we hear the term service or hospitality industry, we often think of hotels and restaurants. But in truth, we are all in the service industry. Every field that impacts human beings should develop a true culture of service.
Written by someone with extensive experience in the hospitality industry, this course will break down how to define a service culture for your organization and then give you the tools to execute it.
2 CEUs
Do you constantly feel like you just don’t have enough time to get everything on your to-do list completed? You are not alone. Many leaders feel that there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to complete the things that are required of them. They not only have the responsibility of their own daily tasks but are also responsible for effectively leading a team, business or organization. Poor time management can cause would-be excellent leaders to fall short. When you feel as though you are drowning in daily tasks, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and therefore fail to lead your team in the right direction.
This course will review how time-management impacts leadership and will give you the tools and insight needed to effectively organize and execute your tasks with less stress.
2 CEUs
In our healthcare roles, we encounter numerous individuals throughout the day, week, or year in various work settings. Whether we are Therapists, Nurses, Counselors, Social Workers, Activity Directors, or other health professionals, it is imperative that we apply the upmost standards of conduct to all our working relationships. One way of assuring this is by establishing and maintaining healthy professional boundaries.
This course will discuss professional boundaries in both clinician-client relationships and colleague-colleague interactions. It will address ethics issues, the benefits of professional boundaries, and common mistakes made regarding establishing and maintaining these standards. It will also provide tips for how to sustain ethically driven relationships with clients and colleagues. This course was written for a variety of healthcare disciplines.
1 CEU
Put simply, people stay in their jobs when there is a sense of being linked or belonging to a group that depends on them. Reasons given for leaving jobs, studies have shown, are not related to dissatisfaction with the job itself, but dissatisfaction with co-workers.
Many people leave due to these concerns only to find that the next place of employment has very similar if not the same exact, issues as the former employer. So, to avoid that dread of going to work or avoid jumping from one job to another to find the proverbial place where the “grass is greener”, let’s figure out how to make your work life easier where you are working now.
It is true the answers seem simple and are likely ones that are already known. In fact, people will often state that these three principles are already being practiced. If so, let’s improve upon practices already in place.
2 CEUs
Your Gateway to Achieving Harmony Between Your Professional and Personal Life.
In today’s demanding world, finding any sort of balance can be a challenge. This course equips you with strategies to manage your time, set boundaries, and prioritize what truly matters. Say goodbye to burnout and hello to a healthier, more fulfilling life.
By covering crucial objectives, including defining work/life balance, understanding its significance, recognizing common challenges, and exploring effective time management and prioritization strategies, the course emphasizes the importance of setting boundaries, offering stress management techniques, and advocating for long-term sustainability.
Participants will be able to create their own long-term plan for better work/life balance.
2 CEUs
According to an article in the National Library of Medicine, “Vision loss among the elderly is a major health care problem. Approximately one person in three has some form of vision-reducing eye disease by the age of 65.”
This course explores some of the most common causes of visual impairment, statistics and prevalence of visual impairment in the elderly, design elements to assist the visually impaired, services to aid the visually impaired, programming to foster inclusion and comfort, and practical ideas for educating staff about this important challenge.