Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Managing Diversity Begins with You
  • Behavioral Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of this intermediate course is to acquire a conceptual framework with tools to manage diversity in the workplace as a way of improving service delivery, quality, and accessibility. It is expected that each participant will be able to identify their role in their own organization with respect to diversity and cultural competency and to position their organization as a leading organization in the delivery of cultural competent services.
Mosquito Abatement in Louisiana Post Katrina and Rita
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:On August 31, 2005, the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and its associated storm surge resulted in the destruction of large areas of Louisiana, which included Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes and the cities of Slidell and New Orleans. Three weeks later, Hurricane Rita pushed a second record storm surge over the western coast of Louisiana, destroying huge areas of Cameron and Vermillion Parishes. Vector control became an issue of utmost importance.
Needs Assessment and Evaluation
  • General Public Health
  • 8.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course targets any level public health professionals who are involved in project or programmatic design and implementation. This course provides public health professionals with the planning cycle of a public health program, including the assessment of needs and resources, the development and implementation of solutions to perceived problems, and the monitoring and evaluation of activities. The course will focus around the Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (PIE) model.
Needs of Our Children: Pediatric Care Before, During and After Disasters
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The expectation during emergencies is that the care provided for adults is also appropriate for children. However, children have unique healthcare needs. In 2004, more than 25 percent (approximately 73 million) of the total U.S. population was under age 18. Of those 73 million, 20 million were under the age of 5. Although a significant proportion of children under age 18 may have a physiologic composition similar to that of adults, younger children have special requirements related to physical needs.
New York State Department of Health - Managerial Communications for Supervising Public Health Nurses
  • New York State Department of Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:NOTE: THIS TRAINING IS INTENDED FOR NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LEARNERS ONLY.
Newborn Screening for Inherited Disorders of Metabolism
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:All states have newborn screening (NBS) programs, but many practitioners are unaware of what disorders their state/territory screens for via NBS.  Additionally, despite newborn screening having existed for 50 years, many parents are unaware of this life-saving health service.  This course will enable the learner to describe a general overview of the history of newborn screening, discuss the expansion of newborn screening and testing methodologies, and understand the scope of newborn screening and the role of healthcare providers.
Nuclear Power Plant Safety and the Public Health Response
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Japan’s Dai-ichi nuclear power plant crisis in 2011 impacted countries thousands of miles away.  The crisis shed light on several issues including protective action measures and population monitoring. Globalization and the large number of nuclear reactors around the world underscore the need to educate all members of society, particularly healthcare providers, about nuclear power plant emergencies.  Program faculty will discuss methods to solidify preparedness for such rare, yet devastating events.
Orientation to the Essentials of Public Health - Intermediate Level
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of this course is to focus on the basic principles and core elements of public health and trace its evolution. The course reviews the public health system and its roles and responsibilities. It is also important to understand the challenge to measure health and address the nationally recognized core public health competencies. Lastly, participants are given a glimpse at public health issues that face us today and ones that are on the horizon.
Orientation to the Essentials of Public Health - Advanced Level
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of this course is to focus on the basic principles and core elements of public health and trace its evolution. The course reviews the public health system and its roles and responsibilities. It is also important to understand the challenge to measure health and address the nationally recognized core public health competencies. Lastly, participants are given a glimpse at public health issues that face us today and one that are on the horizon.
Overview of Community Management of Patients in Disaster
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Disaster imposes adverse consequences upon community populations in several different but synergistic ways. The physical infrastructure of the community may be disrupted and it’s capability in providing basic elements of the population at risk’s Hierarchy of Needs may be impaired. Vulnerabilities inherent in the community population may be revealed as compensatory day to day practices for their mitigation are weakened or become impossible.

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