2 Credit Hours: How often do you look through the lens of the care partner or caregiver of your clients? This thought-provoking event will cover all topics of being a care partner to someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s. This training is packed with many practical tips that can help with the day-to-day care of a loved one.

2 Credit Hours: Over 5 million Americans are completely or mostly homebound or have significant limitations that make it extremely difficult to leave their home. Access to appropriate care and services can be extremely difficult — many times compounding the complexities of their cases. The award-winning documentary film, The Invisible Patients, tells the story of Jessica Macleod, a nurse practitioner, and four homebound patients she cares for in Evansville, Indiana. Together they put a human face on some of the most urgent health care issues facing our nation.

2 Credit Hours: It’s no secret that healthcare costs in the U.S. are skyrocketing. Communities and healthcare systems have had to look at ways to reduce expenditures and yet continue to improve patient care. In this illuminating online course, healthcare providers and helping professionals will explore the impact readmissions have on the health of patients and the overall healthcare system, and gain an introduction to best practices and potential strategies to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions.

5 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- A unique and fun approach to complex ethical dilemmas. A self-paced online course experience featuring pre-recorded video from Maureen Schuster, LMSW and Jason Lesandrini, BA,MA, who will lend their unique approach to guide us through ethical standards and complex case scenarios in clinical, research, and organizational settings. This online course facilitates an evaluation of our personal values to determine whether or not they’re in conflict with our professional integrity. We will identify clinical ethics issues in the practice of healthcare and compare and contrast clinical, research, and organizational ethics issues. Attendees will leave this presentation with the tools to identify and problem solve complex ethics issues in their own professional practice.

2 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- Confronted with a U.S. population that is growing, aging and facing deteriorating health, the eye-opening documentary, The American Nurse, showcases 5 fearless nurses as they serve on the frontlines of healthcare -- navigating their patients through birth, death, prison, war and harsh poverty.

1 Continuing Education Credit Offered --- Social workers, case managers, counselors and other professionals are very involved in identifying and acting in a supporting role to those who qualify to act as a Health Care Surrogate. This program will educate the participating helping professionals in identifying the decision-making standards of Health Care Surrogacy; present and evaluate strategies for resolving disputes between surrogates and health care team members; ethical principles involved and explore in general the role of the helping professional in the overall process.

2 Continuing Education Credit Offered --- Helping professionals will need to adopt a new mindset of well-being in relation to the aging process. Join acclaimed author and board-certified adult and geriatric psychiatrist, Marc Agronin, MD, for this engaging educational experience as he presents a hopeful and practical guide to aging.

2 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- Caregivers are revered for the love, attention, and support they provide to the individuals in their care.  Caregiving is a stressful, relentless, unpredictable, and often unpaid role.  With a global pandemic that has uprooted all societal systems from health and behavior supports, schools and childcare, to our community and familial support systems, caregivers have experienced unprecedented and challenging times.  In this powerful presentation, Author Kate Washington will offer an honest assessment of the caregiving experience in America.  Joined later by Jenny Buckley, RN, BSN, CHPN, for a panel discussion on the diverse experiences of caregivers, the group will share resources, tools, and tips to avoid burnout, and guidance on finding additional support.

2 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- The end of life is inevitable for each and every one of us. As we are born and grow, we inherit and develop different values and beliefs as to how matters regarding the end of life should be handled. Though this is true, this conversation can quickly become a sensitive and “taboo” topic to discuss among family and close friends. Therefore, when the time comes and decisions must be made and executed, family and friends are left wondering what the values and beliefs of their loved ones might be. They may even, at times, create their loved one’s values and beliefs based on their own. In this entertaining and informative event, participants will learn through acting how our patients and/or loved ones may feel at the end of life when they are unable to express themselves.