HC 114 – Meeting the Needs of Medically Complex Patients – An Overview and Case Scenario Review From Discharge Planning to Psychosocial and Spirituality and Lots in Between!

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Overview:

Medically complex patients require a team-based and patient-centered approach to care. Critical care patients may fall under the following categories of complex medical care, pulmonary/ventilator weaning, neurological/post-trauma, cardiac/heart failure, infectious disease, wound care, and others.    Evidence-based treatment approaches, frequent communication with families and caregivers, and compassionate care are essential for navigating a patient’s care journey.  In this special presentation, critical care specialist, Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCNS-BC, NP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, and a panel of interdisciplinary experts will present clinical case vignettes in critical care management, highlighting the importance of specialized care, early intervention, and approaches that enhance patient outcomes – including physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs.  Participants will gain valuable insight, approaches to care, and resources critical to ensuring the best recovery for our medically complex patients.

Course Objectives: 

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  1. Describe communication best practices to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration
  2. Summarize the important considerations for a patient-centered discharge plan
  3. Identify best practices to enhance outcomes of medically complex patients.

Continuing Education Credits Offered:  

Social Workers: 2  CE credits (ASWB ACE and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work),
Case Managers: 2 hours (CCMC), 
Nurses: 2 contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing), 
Counselors: 2 contact hours (NBCC ACEP and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners)

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

Board Information:

Target audience: Social workers, case managers, discharge planners, nurses, counselors, and other healthcare professionals.

SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: [11/22/2021-11/22/2024]. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616.  This activity is approved for 2 contact hours.

NURSES: 2 Contact Hours – CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP16563. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of the CE credits.

COUNSELORS: 2 Hours- CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199.  This activity is approved for 2 contact hours.

HC 111 – Exploring Our Ethical Truths: From Ethical Frameworks, Truth Telling, Moral Distress, and Lots in Between!

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Overview

Ethics, ethics and more ethics are in store for you in these engaging, entertaining and thought- provoking presentations.  One of our most popular presenters, Jason Lesandrini, Assistant Vice President of Ethics, Advance Care Planning and Spiritual Health at a major Atlanta Health System; Adjunct Faculty; Mercer University, will begin by applying ethical codes of social workers, nurses, case managers and counselors to Ethical Frameworks and establishing these as we use these frameworks to try to resolve ethical dilemmas.  He will follow this up by a discussion around “The Complexity of Patient Provider Request– Ethical responses to ethnic, race or religious based requests”.  Using case scenarios, Mr. Lesandrini will then explore Truth Telling in the medical environment – what to do when patients do not wish to disclose certain information?  What ethical dilemmas arise from this and how do you solve them?  Finally, he will close out the day by looking at Moral Distress and “Ethics Narrative Therapy” – using writing as a practical solution to a challenging ethical problem.  Mr. Lesandrini will guide us through a discussion of how we can use narratives to work through some of the ethical dilemmas we face – you will feel refreshed with a new perspective on ethics.  

Course Objectives:

  1. Identify 2 ethical principles from social work, nursing, case management or counseling that apply to our discussion.  
  2. Name the 6 parts of the Ethical Framework discussed.  
  3. Examine an ethical, case scenario review on Patient Provider Request and Truth Telling
  4. Describe 2 examples of moral distress in the healthcare setting
  5. Identify the effects of moral distress on providers and client/patient outcomes
  6. Demonstrate strategies for managing moral distress

Continuing Education Offered:

Social Workers:  5 Ethics CE credit (ASWB ACE and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work)
Case Managers: 5 Ethics hours (CCMC), 
Nurses: 5 contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing), 
Counselors: 5 Ethics contact hours (NBCC ACEP and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners)

*For those states requiring/accepting ethics hours for Counselors, 2 ethics hours will be awarded. Otherwise, 2 contact hours will be awarded

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

Board Information

Target audience: Social workers, case managers, discharge planners, nurses, counselors, and other healthcare professionals.

SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: [11/22/2021-11/22/2024]. Social workers completing this course receive 5 Ethics continuing education credits.

CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616.  This activity is approved for 5 contact hours.

NURSES: 5 Contact Hours – CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP16563. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of the CE credits.

COUNSELORS:    5 Ethics Hours- CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199.  This activity is approved for 5 contact hours.

HC 113 – Ethical Considerations When Working With Older Clients

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Overview

Helping professionals (social workers, counselors, nurses, case managers, long term care administrators, and allied professions) that practice in spaces with older adults can experience scenarios that create ethical dilemmas.  For example, identifying the ‘right’ path of intervention when working with a client that is neglectful of their own needs, while considering that same client’s right to self-determination.  Or, representing an agency and their potentially ageist policies and simultaneously, the rights of your older adult client.  In this case-scenario based presentation, we will enhance our understanding about how to shape intervention strategies that uphold the standards of our professions, our agencies, and most importantly, the standards for our clients’ quality of life.

Course Objectives:

  1. Relate and reflect on complex, practice scenarios when working with older adults and their communities
  2. Analyze (and assess for) instances of ageism, abuse, neglect, and more, that impact our practice with older adults and their communities
  3. Identify ways to negotiate between client goals, agency goals, and the goals of our professions.

Continuing Education Offered:

Social Workers: 2 Ethics CE credits (ASWB ACE, NASW-NJ and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work),
Case Managers: 2 Ethics hours (CCMC), 
Nurses: 2 Contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing), 
Counselors: 2 contact hours (NBCC ACEP and New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners)

*For those states requiring/accepting ethics hours for Counselors, 2 ethics hours will be awarded. Otherwise, 2 contact hours will be awarded

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

ODL 227: Redefining Aging: Transforming our Understanding of “Old Age” and Well-Being

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Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

Overview:

It is no secret that the United States population is growing older.  The aging population will double in the coming decades, affecting the social and health systems that our clients and families depend upon. 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.  Dr. Agronin’s recent research aims to no longer see aging as an implacable enemy and start seeing it as a developmental force for enhancing well-being, meaning, and longevity.  Participants will learn innovative, evidence-based practices to create belonging and empowerment and help  broaden the lens through which they view the aging process.

Objectives:

  • Summarize the concept of well-being in relation to the aging process.
  • Identify the aspects of creating belonging, empowerment, and mastery.
  • Describe strategies to improve the ways you value the aging process.

Presenter:

Dr. Marc E. Agronin, MD 

Dr. Marc E. Agronin, MD is a board-certified adult and geriatric psychiatrist and the author of the acclaimed book How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old (2011) and its sequel The End of Old Age: Living a Longer, More Purposeful Life (2018). He joined the staff of Miami Jewish Health (MJH), Florida’s largest not-for-profit long-term care provider, in 1999, serving as the director of mental health services and the founding director of the memory center and Alzheimer’s clinical research program. In 2015, Dr. Agronin was promoted to Vice President for Behavioral Health and Clinical Research at MJH. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Agronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in adult psychiatry at Harvard University’s McLean Hospital and then a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.

2 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 2 CE Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 2 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 2 Contact Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 2 Contact Hours
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 2 Contact Hour
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 2 Contact Hour

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

HC 110 – Enable – Engage – Empower: Innovations in Technology for Aging Well

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Overview:

As the US aging population continues to grow, the home will become a healthcare hub for individuals wanting to age in place.  As helping professionals, we often assist our clients/patients and their loved ones with these aging in place resources, counseling and much more. Therefore, it is imperative that we keep abreast of available technology solutions that can assist with this process. The needs of this aging demographic and their caregivers will necessitate innovative solutions and programs aimed at maintaining one’s independence and sense of purpose. In this eye-opening presentation, learn from experts in the field about the future of technology solutions and programs focused on mobility, social engagement, and remote patient monitoring.  Participants will gain valuable information for their everyday practice and learn innovative approaches to training a future workforce through technologies and programs that engage and build empathy & compassion.

Objectives:

1. Summarize the needs of an aging demographic that will necessitate innovative solutions and programs aimed at maintaining one’s independence and sense of purpose.

2. Differentiate technology solutions & programs focused on mobility, social engagement & remote patient monitoring.

3. Recall innovative approaches to training a future workforce through technologies & programs that engage & build empathy & compassion.

Continuing Education Credits Offered: 2 CE Credits

Social workers: 2 CE credits (ASWB ACE and NY State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work)
Case Managers: 2 contact hours (CCMC)
Nurses: 2 contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing)
Counselors: 2 credit hours (NBCC ACEP and NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners)

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit.

HC 109 – Mental Health and Survivorship: Helping Seniors Cope in Challenging Times

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Overview:

The ripple effects of a worldwide pandemic will be felt for some time. COVID 19 has physically affected people of all different ages, races, genders, and ethnicities. More recently, researchers are acknowledging the impact on people’s mental health due to isolation, loneliness, and survivorship. Our senior population, both living in their homes or in other living arrangements, have been deeply affected in multiple ways. The isolation and separation from their friends, families and loved ones have caused depressive symptoms and other mental health challenges – often coupled with the complexities of survivorship. Join experienced nurse and crisis care manager, Aimee Gustitis, BSN, RN, JD, to learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of depression and explore why these mental health challenges are so prevalent in this population. Participants will find themselves better equipped to recognize mental health challenges, as well utilize new ways to prevent loneliness and isolation in our senior population.

Objectives:

1. Summarize the effects of isolation and loneliness on the senior population.

2. Recognize signs and symptoms of depression in the senior population.

3. Describe the impact that survivorship may have on senior clients.

Continuing Education Credits Offered: 1 CE Credit

Social workers: 1 CE credit (ASWB ACE)
Case Managers: 1 clock hour (CCMC)
Nurses: 1 contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing)
Counselors: 1 Clinical Credit (NBCC ACEP and NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners)

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit.

CF 102 – Communication and Ethics of Self-Care

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Most individuals decide to enter the helping professions because of a deep commitment to help others – often practicing in spaces that interact with people during vulnerable and uncertain times.  As we communicate with our clients/patients on the importance of self-care as a prerequisite for wellbeing, many of us are experiencing compassion fatigue or burnout.  Why is self-care especially important for helping professionals and how does practicing self-care intersect with upholding our professional ethical standards?  In this invigorating presentation, Jenny Buckley, RN, BSN, will discuss the necessity for self-care as an ethical imperative, strategies for practicing self-care, and communication best-practices to promote self-care in your professional practice.  Participants will feel renewed encouragement to fuse self-care strategies into their everyday lives.

Continuing Education Credits Offered: 2 CE Credits

Social workers: 2 CE credits (ASWB ACE)
Case Managers: 2 clock hours (CCMC)
Nurses: 2 contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing)

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit.

Griswold Home Care PPP 2021-2022

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Overview:

Welcome 2021-2022 Griswold Preferred Partnership Program Participants! This exclusive private portal is where you can find all the resources and documents you need to successfully use your PPP membership to grow your referral sources. You can download any of the PowerPoint or PDF documents by clicking on the “Materials” tab within each category, selecting the desired file, and downloading it to your computer.

CarePatrol PPP Portal 2021 – 2022

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Overview:

Welcome 2021-2022 Care Patrol Preferred Partnership Program Participants! This exclusive private portal is where you can find all the resources and documents you need to successfully use your PPP membership to grow your referral sources. You can download any of the PowerPoint or PDF documents by clicking on the “Materials” tab within each category, selecting the desired file, and downloading it to your computer.

Filed Under: PPP

ODL 229: Leaving your Legacy and End-of-Life Discussions: What Does that Look Like?

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This course will be decommissioned on 3/4/2023
Please ensure you have completed the course by that date.

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

2 CE – Overview:

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. Actress, Judith Gantly, offers a unique and thought-provoking performance that looks at the patient and caregiver journey through the dying process. This information will continue to be applied as Scott Zucker, JD, educates on Ethical Wills. Mr. Zucker will walk participants through the basics of an ethical will and how it may help a patient cope with end-of-life issues. In this portion of the powerful presentation, participants will learn the definition and components of an ethical will as well as how to write one of their own. Mr. Zucker will use information, hands-on experiences, and a documentary to present this invaluable information.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  1. Identify at least 2 ways healthcare professionals can help their clients/patients when dealing with end-of-life issues.
  2. Define an ethical will (how it differs from traditional wills) and how it may benefit our clients/patients.
  3. Name 2 possible components of an ethical will.
  4. Participate in writing your own ethical will. 

Credit Hours:

2 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR

Social Workers
ASWB ACE –  2  ETHICS CE Credits;
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 2 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 2  Ethics Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing –  2 Contact Hours
Counselors 2 Ethics or 2 Contact Hours*
NBCC ACEP;
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 2 Contact Hours

* Some states do not require/accept ethics hours for counselors, for those cases contact hours will be awarded.

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

Senior Lifestyle PPP Portal 2021 – 2022

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Overview:

Welcome Senior Lifestyle Preferred Partnership Program Participants! This exclusive private portal is where you can find all the resources and documents you need to successfully use your PPP membership to grow your referral sources. You can download any of the PowerPoint or PDF documents by clicking on the “Materials” tab within each category, selecting the desired file, and downloading it to your computer.

Filed Under: PPP

Century Park PPP Portal 2020 – 2021

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Overview:

Welcome Century Park Preferred Partnership Program Participants! This exclusive private portal is where you can find all the resources and documents you need to successfully use your PPP membership to grow your referral sources. You can download any of the PowerPoint or PDF documents by clicking on the “Materials” tab within each category, selecting the desired file, and downloading it to your computer.

Filed Under: PPP

HCA Franchisee PPP Portal 2021-2022

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Overview:

Welcome Home Care Assistance Preferred Partnership Program Participants! This exclusive private portal is where you can find all the resources and documents you need to successfully use your PPP membership to grow your referral sources. You can download any of the PowerPoint or PDF documents by clicking on the “Materials” tab within each category, selecting the desired file, and downloading it to your computer.

Filed Under: PPP

CarePatrol PPP Portal 2020 – 2021

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Overview:

Welcome CarePatrol Preferred Partnership Program Participants! This exclusive private portal is where you can
find all the resources and documents you need to successfully use your PPP membership to grow your referral
sources. You can download any of the PowerPoint or PDF documents by clicking on the “Materials” tab within
each category, selecting the desired file, and downloading it to your computer.

Filed Under: PPP

ODL 226: Questionable Surrogacy: The Ethically Appropriate Selection, Roles and Responsibility of Health Care Surrogates

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Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

Overview:

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.  Three ethically complex cases of surrogate decision making will be examined.  Esteemed speaker Jason Lesandrini, MA, FACHE, LPEC, Owner of Ethics Architect will present this interactive program.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  • Identify at least three health care surrogate decision making standards.
  • Identify at least two strategies for resolving disputes between surrogates and health care team members.
  • Discuss the application of the ethical codes of social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors to healthcare surrogacy.

Presenter:

Jason Lesandrini MA, FACHE, HEC-C, LPEC

Jason Lesandrini MA, FACHE, HEC-C, LPEC, Medical Ethicist; Assistant Vice President of Ethics, Advance Care Planning and Spiritual Health at a major Atlanta Health System; Adjunct Faculty; Mercer University
Jason Lesandrini is currently the Assistant Vice President of Ethics, Advance Care Planning and Spiritual Health at a major health system in GA. Prior to this position, he was a Medical Ethicist at Grady Healthcare. He is adjunct faculty and teaches at Mercer University and has also taught at GA State University as well. He has presented at numerous conferences – both locally and nationally – and has also written several journal articles. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from Michigan State University and a M.A. in Philosophy from GA State University. He is working on his PhD in Medical/Healthcare Ethics.

1 CREDIT HOUR APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 1 Ethics Credit;
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 1 Contact Hour
Case Managers
CCMC – 1 Ethics Hour
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing –  1 Contact Hours
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 1 Ethics or 1 Contact Hours*
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 1 Contact Hours

* Some states do not require/accept ethics hours for counselors, for those cases contact hours will be awarded.

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

ODL 223: Complex Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare

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This course will be decommissioned on 3/4/2023
Please ensure you have completed the course by that date.

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

5 CE – Overview:

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.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  1. Identify clinical ethics issues in practice of healthcare.
  2. Compare and contrast clinical, research and organizational ethics issues.
  3. Utilize an ethics decision making framework to address ethical issues within healthcare.
  4. Identify 2 research ethics issues that impact healthcare delivery
  5. Identify the ethical values at play for each case scenario presented

Continuing Education Credits Offered:

5 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR

Social Workers
ASWB ACE 5 Ethics Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 5 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 5 Ethics Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 5 Contact Hours
Counselors 5 Ethics or 5 Contact Hours*
NBCC ACEP;
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact Hours

* Some states do not require/accept ethics hours for counselors, for those cases contact hours will be awarded.

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

ODL 222: Applying Watson’s Theory of Caring for Self-Care

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Revised on: 3/5/25

Attention New Jersey Social Workers: 

This course is approved for all social workers, including New Jersey. The Board Adopted Amendments: N.J.A.C. 13:44G-6.3, 6.4, and 6.7 Content Areas for Continuing Education Credit on April 15, 2024. This updates the Board’s regulation. This amendment states that  attendance at programs or courses offered by providers approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) are now acceptable sources of CE credit. 

At the June 12, 2024 public meeting, the Board voted to allow “any applications submitted, or audits which take place, on or after September 1, 2022” to be able “to submit CE from the sources updated in the new amendment adopted on April 15, 2024.”

For more information please refer to https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/sw/Pages/Additional-Information.aspx#CE

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, counselors, nurses, and case managers.

Overview:

As those of us who work in the helping profession realize, vicarious trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue are very real and debilitating syndromes that can leave us feeling drained, depressed and physically sick with a multitude of other issues. Therefore, it is critical that we take care of ourselves in order to care for our clients, patients and families.  This course is presented by Kelly Dyar, Nurse and Educator, who will review vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, Watson’s Theory of Human Caring, and the professional ethical standards that are relevant in discussing self-care.  Caring science, which guides the theory, provides an ethical and moral way of approaching caring-healing relationships, and is the essence of the healthcare profession.  The theory is broken into 10 Caritas Processes that promote healing, honor wholeness, and contribute to evolving humanity.  Thus, this presentation will not only introduce Watson’s theory and Caritas Processes, but will focus on how each learner can incorporate the theory into professional practice and personal habits for self-care. 

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  • Describe compassion fatigue
  • Identify professional ethics as they relate to caring for self
  • Examine Watson’s Theory of Human Caring as an approach to self-care
  • Identify at least one self-care strategy to help decrease the risk or impact of compassion fatigue

Presenter: 

Kelly Dyar, EdD(c), MSN, RN, CNN, CNE

Kelly Dyar, EdD(c), MSN, RN, CNN, CNE, is a registered nurse with 27 years experience, primarily in the care of nephrology patients. She is on faculty at the Tanner Health Systems School of Nursing at the University of West Georgia.  She also maintains a per diem clinical practice with DaVita Renal Care, providing in-patient dialysis.  She maintains a life-long love of learning, especially in caring science, especially related to Watson’s Theory of Human Caring.

2 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 2 CE Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 2 Contact Hours
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 2 Contact Hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 2 Contact Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 2 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 2 Contact Hours

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

HC 100: Forgotten Plague: What Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses and other Allied Health Providers Need to Know About M.E.

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Overview:

Social workers, counselors, nurses and other allied health providers often work with patients with chronic illnesses.  This course explores Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome — a documentary video along with supplemental self-study resources that provide a brief history of the disease, current research, follows patients dealing with ME/CFS, and highlights the medical system’s inability to address many complex chronic diseases. By participating in this innovative, online course – social workers will learn not only about this disease – but ways that they can assist their patients/families with resources and coping mechanisms.  

Continuing Education Credits Offered: 5 CE Credits

Social workers: 5 CE credits (ASWB ACE)
Case Managers: 5 clock hours (CCMC)
Nurses: 5 contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing)
Counselors: 5 hours (NBCC ACEP)

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit.

HC 101: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Overview for Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Case Managers & Other Allied Health Providers: Including Hope for Steve Documentary Film – Perspectives from a Patient/Family

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As in line with one of our missions at CEU Creations – Educating For Goodness Sake – Each time this course is purchased – a portion of the proceeds goes directly to Hope for Steve. Hope for Steve is a non-profit organization that aims to spread awareness about ALS and most importantly HOPE for all those diagnosed with this horrible condition.

Also, many thanks to the ALS Association – GA Chapter and the ALS Association (National) for providing some great information and resources.

Overview:

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.  As social workers, counselors, nurses, and other helping professionals – we often interact with patients/families dealing with ALS.  This presentation will teach us more about the disease itself – taking a closer look at the symptoms, diagnosis, and typical progression of the disease.  We will explore the role that allied health providers have as part of an interdisciplinary team in helping patients/families cope with some of the devastating effects of this disease.  Finally, we will watch a documentary, Hope for Steve, which has debuted at the Arizona Film Festival, Netflix, and Amazon Prime – which focuses on the lives of Steve and Hope Dezember, who have learned to live (and inspire others) while dealing with ALS – gaining the invaluable insights and perspectives of a patient/family living (and thriving) with chronic disease.

Continuing Education Credits Offered: 5 CE Credits

Social workers: 5 CE credits (ASWB ACE)
Case Managers: 5 clock hours (CCMC)
Nurses: 5 contact hours (CA Board of Registered Nursing)
Counselors: 5 contact hours(NBCC ACEP)

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit.

ODL 217: A Closer Look at Home Bound Patients: Options for Care, Access to Care, and a Documentary Film

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Revised on 11/16/2023

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

Overview:

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. 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, from the living conditions of the elderly poor and end-of-life care to the soaring costs of hospitalization, the complexity of insurance and over prescription of opiates. To supplement the eye-opening information from the film, we will also delve into gaps in the continuum of care, barriers to quality care in the home, best practice models, and considerations and guidance for providers working in healthcare. Clinicians will have a better understanding of the overlapping barriers and challenges that many homebound patients face, and gain the valuable tools necessary to enhance practice, advocate for programs and services that meet needs, and connect patients/caregivers to those resources. Together, providers can shine a light on the most vulnerable in our communities and ensure that their health and wellness does not go unseen.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  • List two examples from the film that highlighted a gap in the care continuum
  • Name one emerging trend in home healthcare
  • Summarize the resources available to homebound patients and their caregivers

Presenter:

Patrick O’Connor, a writer, producer and director

Patrick O’Connor, a writer, producer and director who primarily works in marketing for healthcare systems, as well as numerous non-profit organizations, through his company o’connor/creative. His feature film writing credits include Ricochet River, produced by Gigi Pritzker and starring Kate Hudson, and the independent feature Sacred Hearts, which he also directed.  Sacred Hearts premiered at the Boston Film Festival and subsequently played at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival (awarded Best First Feature) and the Lincoln Center in New York. His screenplay, ZOO, was purchased by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.

2 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 2 CE Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 2 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 2 Contact Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 2 Contact Hours
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 2 Contact Hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 2 Contact Hours

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit for an asynchronous course. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

ODL 221: Preventing Readmissions – A Primer for Helping Professionals in Healthcare

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This course will be decommissioned on 3/4/2023
Please ensure you have completed the course by that date.

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

Overview:

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. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals are financially penalized if they have excessive readmissions rates. With this increased awareness of the prevalence of hospital readmissions coupled with the new financial penalties, health systems have employed intense and widespread efforts to reduce early hospital readmissions. Research suggests that the particular strategies chosen should be based on quality data, and with the oversight of a multidisciplinary team within a well-connected care delivery system. Furthermore, all strategies must be coupled with a system-wide commitment to supporting the patient’s capacity for self-care. 

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  • Summarize the impact readmissions have on the healthcare system and its clients
  • Name 3 potential strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions
  • Describe the importance of supporting patients’ capacity for self-care

2 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 2 CE Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 2 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 2 Contact Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 2 Contact Hours
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 2 Contact Hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 2 Contact Hours

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

ODL 218: Through the Eyes of a Veteran: Navigating the System – Supporting Service Members with Programs, Benefits, Resources

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This course will be decommissioned on 3/4/2023
Please ensure you have completed the course by that date.

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

Overview:

Veterans can often feel like “unsung” heroes. For many, after they’ve served our country they return home only to experience a gap in resources and opportunities. As healthcare professionals, we may set out to help the veterans we encounter in our daily work, but soon we too face scarcity in resources for our veteran clients. This online course will highlight the challenges our veterans face with a personal experience speaker who share his experience as a United States Air Force Veteran. Tyler Bowser, Veteran Community Ambassador with the Veterans Empowerment Organization (VEO), will set the tone with an inspiring story of trial and triumph. The course will also provide an overview of the U.S. veteran population, and the service and benefit systems available to them.  The importance of coordinated, trauma-informed care, as well at the opportunities and challenges facing providers will be outlined.  Finally, participants will receive a comprehensive list of Federal and local resources to reference in their work with our veteran heroes.  Participants will leave inspired, empowered, and better equipped to help our veterans!

Course Objectives: 

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  • Discuss challenges veterans face when returning home after service
  • Identify 2 federal programs that serve veterans
  • Name 1 program that provides benefits to veterans
  • Identify 2 local resources available for veterans 
  • List 1 way we can better support our veteran clients

4 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 4 CE Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 4 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 4 Contact Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 4 Contact Hours
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 4 Contact Hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 4 Contact Hours

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

ODL 214 Ethics of Self-Care

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Overview

Why is self-care so important? And who could imagine that you could be unethical for not practicing self-care? As helping professionals, we inform our clients/patients of the importance of self-care, while many of us are overworked and under-performing due to compassion fatigue or burnout. Through a TED Talk about The Power of Vulnerability by social worker, storyteller, and researcher, Brene Brown, and a conversation about self-care by Anne McSweeney, LMSW and Jenny Buckley, RN — participants will learn self-care strategies, ethical codes pertaining to self-care and the importance of self-care as a prerequisite for adequate patient/client care. Participants will leave with a take-away reminder that will keep you encouraged to care for yourself all throughout the year!

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  1. Discuss the paradox of self-care for helping professionals
  2. Discuss ethical codes pertaining to self care for helping professionals
  3. Determine the importance of self care as a prerequisite for adequate patient/client care
  4. Identify Self Care practices for helping professionals

Continuing Education Offered:

Social Workers: 4 Ethics CE credits (ASWB ACE); 4 Contact Hours (New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work )

Nurses: 4 Contact Hours  (California Board of Registered Nursing)

Case Managers: 4 Ethics CE Credits (CCMC)

Counselors: 4 Contact Hours (NBCC ACEP and  New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners )

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit for an asynchronous course. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.

Board Information

Target audience: Social workers, case managers, discharge planners, nurses, counselors, and other healthcare professionals.

SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: [11/22/21-11/22/24]. Social workers completing this course receive 4 Ethics continuing education credits.

CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616.  This activity is approved for 4 contact hours.

NURSES: 4 Contact Hours – CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number: CEP16563. Nurses completing this course will receive 4 Contact Hours through the California Board of Registered Nursing. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of the CE credits.

Check Certificate: CEU Creations is a Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP16563. This certificate must be retained by the licensee for a period of four years after the course ends. Nurses will receive X contact hours through the California Board of Registered Nursing.

COUNSELORS: 4 Contact Hours – CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199.  This activity is approved for 4 contact hours.

HC 106: Telemental Health – A Critical Overview for Clinicians

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Overview:

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. We will also dive into specific strategies for “picking the low-hanging fruit” of keeping confidential client information secure.  Please bear in mind, we are only able to cover a small sample of the necessary information to ensure an informed telemental health practice.  An Informed consent form, practice checklist, and documentation checklist are included with registration of this course.  We encourage helping professionals to review the ancillary handouts and resource list to continue your learning and enhance your knowledge.

Continuing Education Credits Offered: 1 CE Credit

Social workers: 1 CE credit (ASWB ACE)
Case Managers: 1 clock hour (CCM)
Nurses: 1 contact hour (CA Board of Registered Nursing)
Counselors: 1 hours (NBCC ACEP)

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit.

ODL 224: American Nurse: An Overview for Helping Professionals and Clinicians

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THIS COURSE WILL BE RETIRING 3/26/2024

NOTE: This video contains images that may be upsetting to some viewers

Revised on 05/16/2023

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, case managers, nurses, and counselors.

Overview:

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.  In addition, with the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 – the front lines of healthcare (many of whom are nurses) are strained emotionally – suffering from severe psychological trauma.  As clinicians and helping professionals – it is imperative that we have a deeper understanding of what they go through “on the front lines” as we provide them with counseling, social work and other services.   From award-winning filmmaker Carolyn Jones, the film will leave you informed and inspired by the amazing nurses that serve our communities every day.  Supplemented by an overview of the profession — with demographics, historical considerations, and challenges and opportunities, this online course will provide participants with a better understanding of the nursing profession, its vital role in our healthcare system, and the critical linkage nurses play in building and sustaining healthy communities.  In viewing this eye-opening documentary film, the clinician/helping professional will gain better insights into what healthcare professionals go through on a day-to-day basis and thus, gain insights into being able to provide better treatment and resources to these clients in need. 

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session – the participant will be able to:

  • Describe the roles of a professional nurse and how these roles may come under strain. 
  • State the difference between compassion fatigue, burnout and vicarious trauma. 
  • Discuss the challenges the nursing profession may face in the modern age – specifically the huge strain that COVID-19 has placed on the front-line workers. 
  • Identify at least two resources to help counselors, social workers and other helping professionals when dealing with a nurse (or front-line worker) as a client.

Presenter:

Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Jones, an award-winning photographer and filmmaker who specializes in telling stories that shed light on issues of global concern. Her first book, Living Proof: Courage in the Face of AIDS, was published by Abbeville Press and accompanied by shows in Tokyo, Berlin, the USA, and at the United Nations World AIDS Conference. She directed a television series for Oxygen Media called Womenshands as well as Women… on Family, a program for PBS. Carolyn founded the non-profit 100 People Foundation which creates educational films and curricula for school children worldwide. She has spent the last two years interviewing nurses from all over the country for the book and documentary film: The American Nurse.

2 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 2 CE Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 2 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 2 Contact Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 2 Contact Hours
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 2 Contact Hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 2 Contact Hours

Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.