5 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- Social workers, nurses and other allied health providers often work with patients with chronic illnesses. This course explores Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

5 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS – also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) affects about 20,000 Americans at any given time – with over 6,000 people diagnosed each year. It’s a disease that affects how the muscles and nerves function – and currently, there is no cure.

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.

2 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- 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. These patients, many times unseen by the “traditional” clinical setting, can fall through the cracks, leaving their loved ones, friends, and caregivers with the insurmountable task of caring for patients that require an interdisciplinary team of specialized care.

2 Continuing Education Credits Offered --- 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.

1 Continuing Education Credit Offered --- In this presentation, we’ll get oriented to essential challenges, terminology, and the legal-ethical-professional environment of telemental health. We'll focus on making sure that attendees know what they don't know and have the resources to fill in the gaps.

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 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.