Upcoming Virtual Trainings.
Event
Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) – Suicide Prevention
Event Date: March 13, 2025
2 - 3:30 p.m. ET
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FULL
ACCME & NAB CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE
QPR training will offer strategies to support your work in providing suicide prevention and mental wellness to your residents. This 1.5-hour evidence-based instructor-led training is held virtually and will provide a comprehensive review of a three-step approach anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. This session will provide a two-year certification to attendees.
Key components covered in the training:
- How to Question, Persuade and Refer someone who may be suicidal
- How to get help for yourself or learn more about preventing suicide
- The common causes of suicidal behavior
- The warning signs of suicide
- How to get help for someone in crisis
Registration is limited.
Speaker: Marti Vogt
LinkedIn for social media – https://www.linkedin.com/in/marti-vogt-317b0a12/
Event
An Overview of Bipolar Disorders for Nursing Facility Staff
Event Date: March 18, 2025
2 - 2:30 p.m. ET
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False
ACCME & NAB CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE
This half-hour training will introduce staff to a basic understanding of bipolar disorder, its onset, symptoms, and treatments. Participants will leave with an understanding of this mood disorder and able to identify its symptoms and approaches to help residents experiencing challenges from bipolar disorder.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will gain an understanding of bipolar disorder.
- Participants will be able to recognize and understand signs and symptoms of mania and depression.
- Participants will learn appropriate responses of engagement with residents.
Speaker: Bryan G. Stephens, MA, MBA, CPCS, LPC
LinkedIn for social media – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryangstephens/
Event
Addiction 101—What It Is and What It Isn’t
Event Date: March 20, 2025
2 – 3 p.m. EST
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False
ACCME & NAB CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE
This session will provide an introduction to addiction, its effects on brain functioning, and how it fits into the chronic disease model. We will review DSM-5-TR criteria and the placement dimensions from ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) to support care planning.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will gain an understanding of how addiction impacts the brain; consequences of addiction and behaviors residents dealing with addiction might exhibit.
- Attendees will gain an understanding of DSM-5-TR criteria for addiction to support treatment referrals.
- Attendees will gain an understanding of basic addiction screening tools.
Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Horn, LCSW, MAC, SAP
Event
Managing Substance Use Disorders (SUD) in Nursing Facilities Office Hours
Event Date: March 21, 2025
1 - 1:30 p.m. ET
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Interested in receiving expert answers to substance use challenges you are facing in your nursing facility?
Join subject matter experts, Dr. Jenn Azen and Dr. Swati Gaur, during monthly office hours as they answer questions to your complex cases. No question is too big or small.
Monthly office hours are held on the 3rd Friday of each month from 1-1:30 p.m. ET.
Subject Matter Experts:
Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, AGSF
Medical Director, Alliant Health Solutions
Medical Director, Post Acute Northeast Georgia Health System
Jenn Azen, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Attending Physician, UW Medicine Post-Acute Care Service Medical Director, UW Medical Center Addiction Medicine Consult Service
Primary Care Physician and Physician Educator, UW Medicine Primary Care Clinics
Event
Changing Behaviors from a Rolling Boil to a Simmer: De-escalation Strategies to Defuse Difficult Situations
Event Date: March 25, 2025
2 - 3 p.m. ET
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False
ACCME & NAB CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE
This training will outline factors that contribute to escalating behaviors and strategies to safely defuse situations. In addition, we will discuss how staff’s behaviors and communication style can affect desired outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify what contributes to escalating behaviors and how appropriate staff responses can positively impact outcomes.
- Recognize how communication skills are important for building rapport with residents in crisis.
- Learn strategies and techniques to help manage crisis situations.
Speaker: Barbara Bull, RN, BSN – bbull@jaghealthcare.com
Event
CARES Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Office Hours
Event Date: March 26, 2025
2:30 - 3 p.m. ET
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The COE-NF is making the CARES® Serious Mental Illness™ Online Training Program available to CMS-certified nursing facilities at no cost. CARES SMI focuses on how to develop care strategies for individuals diagnosed with a serious mental illness and how it differs from dementia. Interested in learning more about CARES SMI before committing or have general questions about the program? Join our monthly office hours meeting on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 2:30-3 p.m. ET for an open discussion on implementation, benefits, case studies and successes.
Event
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
Event Date: March 28, 2025
11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET
False
FULL
ACCME & NAB CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training provides skills to contact and provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use challenge or experiencing a crisis.
This session provides a MHFA certification for three years.
The training covers:
- Common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges and substance use challenges.
- How to interact with a person in crisis.
- How to connect a person with help.
- Expanded content on trauma, substance use and self-care
The training is divided into three (3) parts:
Part 1 starts AFTER initial registration has been APPROVED by the instructor. Approved registrants will be emailed instructions on how to create an on-line profile using MHFA Connect and completing a pre-survey/quiz followed by a 2-hour self-paced online course. Registrants MUST complete Part 1 no less than 48 hours (two business days) prior to the scheduled Part 2 session.
Part 2 is a 5.5-hour live instructor led virtual training. Participants are required to be on camera the entire time.
Part 3 participants will return to MHFA Connect to complete the post test and evaluation, required to receive a certificate of participation.
7.75 NAB credits and 5.5 ACCME credits will be offered after completing this live training.
Registration is limited.
Speaker: Holly Pounders
Event
Managing Substance Use Disorders (SUD) in Nursing Facilities Office Hours
Event Date: April 18, 2025
1 - 1:30 p.m. ET
False
False
Interested in receiving expert answers to substance use challenges you are facing in your nursing facility?
Join subject matter experts, Dr. Jenn Azen and Dr. Swati Gaur, during monthly office hours as they answer questions to your complex cases. No question is too big or small.
Monthly office hours are held on the 3rd Friday of each month from 1-1:30 p.m. ET.
Subject Matter Experts:
Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, AGSF
Medical Director, Alliant Health Solutions
Medical Director, Post Acute Northeast Georgia Health System
Jenn Azen, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Attending Physician, UW Medicine Post-Acute Care Service Medical Director, UW Medical Center Addiction Medicine Consult Service
Primary Care Physician and Physician Educator, UW Medicine Primary Care Clinics
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