Category: Workplace Violence

Training to develop CNAs and paraprofessionals for all types of healthcare organizations
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Improve Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Care. Additionally, provide theoretical and clinical treatment guidelines and recommendations for mental health clinicians
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Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that causes no illness in some people, and mild to moderate illness in others, lasting about a week; the vast majority of those infected with Zika virus do not become seriously ill.This course discusses the discovery, transmission, symptoms, diagnoses, treatment, risks, and prevention of Zika virus.
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This CE course is designed to encourage health care facilities to consider how to better prepare for an active shooter incident and provides emergency planners disaster committees executive leadership and others involved in emergency operations planning with detailed discussions of unique issues faced in a health care facility. In addition discussions on information sharing psychological first aid and law enforcement / security are included.
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This course presents information on the threat that terror organizations may use biological agents to kill people and cause chaos.  Biological warfare is regulated and denounced by world governments.  Terrorists are increasingly likely to use biological agents for the fear it creates in others.  Companies, families, and individuals can prepare by learning about bioterrorism, preparing for attacks, and learning how to mitigate the effects of an attack.  This course gives learners practical information they can apply at work and at home.
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Repeated and unwanted actions by an individual or group intended to intimidate, harass, degrade, or offend one or more persons is bullying. In organizations, bullying has a negative impact on the emotional health and well-being of employees and affects the performance of the entire organization. Bullying has become a serious and growing problem affecting a significant proportion of healthcare professionals compared to other industries. Therefore, it is important for administrators, supervisors, and rank-and-file employees to understand the factors that contribute to the development of bullying, and to take actions to prevent it. This course discusses bullying in healthcare organizations, along with strategies to help workers recognize and prevent bullying behavior.
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This course provides a thorough discussion of trauma-informed prevention and treatment objectives along with practical counselor strategies. Specific treatment issues related to working with trauma survivors in a clinical setting are discussed as well including client engagement pacing and timing traumatic memories and culturally appropriate and gender-responsive services. This course also gives guidelines for making referrals to trauma-specific services.
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Supervisorsare teachers coaches consultants mentors evaluators and administrators; you provide support encouragement and education to staff while addressing an array of psychological interpersonal physical and spiritual issues of clients. This TIP (Treatment Improvement Protocol) focuses primarily on the teaching coaching consulting and mentoring functions of clinical supervisors. This particular course contains valuable information and is pertinentto clinical supervisors in 'all' fields even though the research and clinical findings discussedin this 'best practice' manual are referring to the field of substance abuse counseling. This course is recommended for Social Workers and Therapists seeking to become supervisors in California.
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This course focuses on key workforce development activities such as: recruiting hiring and retaining trauma-informed staff; training behavioral health service providers on the principles of and evidence-based and emerging best practices relevant to TIC; developing and promoting a set of counselor competencies specific to TIC; delineating the responsibilities of counselors and addressing ethical considerations specifically relevant to promoting TIC; providing trauma-informed clinical supervision; and committing to prevention and treatment of secondary trauma of behavioral health professionals within the organization. Addressing each of these areas is essential to building a trauma-informed workforce and an organizational culture that supports TIC
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Extracted from a guide created by the National Center on Trauma-Informed Care as a technical assistance document to help make trauma-informed peer support available to women who receive or have received services in behavioral health or other human service systems. This course provides basic information about how cultural considerations impact the meaning a person makes of their experiences and can affect both the experiences of trauma and the development of peer support relationships. This course also explores how assumptions about others can affect peer support and how services sometimes fail women of color refugees and immigrants people who live in rural areas and women viewed as "different" because of sexual orientation religion or other cultural factors.
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This CEU course provides useful strategies for building capacity developing partnerships and seeking grant opportunities. Topics of focus are: building capacity within faith-based organizations; partnering with organizations to prevent crime; and effective and efficient grant acquisition and management.
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Patient care often goes beyond general medical support. When a patient becomes emotionally upset, displaying aggressive physical behavior, it is not only disruptive but can be harmful to healthcare workers, family members, and other patients and interfere with necessary medical care. Aggressive physical behavior occurs in 30% to 50% of those people who suffer from dementia, and aggressive behaviors might include punching, kicking, biting, grabbing, pushing, throwing objects, or spitting. Healthcare providers working in retirement homes, eldercare facilities, and home care agencies often have to care for patients that exhibit aggressive behaviors. Understanding the causes behind these behaviors, how to identify triggers that cause the behaviors, and knowing how to interact effectively with an aggressive patient will increase safety for all around and improve overall care.
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