Compliance And Regulatory Issues CEU Courses

Elder abuse and neglect and child abuse and neglect are harsh realities. This course will identify the physical, clinical, and behavioral indicators of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse needed to identify and report to appropriate agencies. Participants will gain an improved awareness of warning signs of abuse, the clinician's role in reporting abuse, and the steps for reporting abuse and getting proper assistance.

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was created to develop regulations protecting the privacy and security of certain health information. Currently, there is a lot of confusion amongst professionals about how to appropriately use the Protected Health Information (PHI) of our patients. This course will go through some of the basic fundamentals of HIPAA, current regulations & penalties.

Medical errors are a continuing concern for healthcare providers, including audiologists. This presentation will identify common clinical errors in audiology practices and review steps to minimize adverse outcomes.

As new diseases emerge and society becomes more mobile, the threat of disease spread in our professional workplaces is real and serious. By nature, hearing healthcare professionals interact frequently with vulnerable individuals, namely the elderly and very young. These individuals present in our practices with health conditions and other factors that place them at high risk for contracting or spreading infection. It is critical that hearing professionals are practicing in a manner that ensures the safety of themselves, staff and especially patients. This course will focus on how disease may spread in the professional workplace, the development and most importantly implementation of an exemplary infection control protocol, including ways to manage patient connections in times of outbreak.

The course addresses the health disparities of LGBTQ individuals, based the social determinants of health, including barriers to accessing care, lack of routine sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection, discrimination, and lack of provider knowledge about LGBTQ health.

This course will review the health impacts of domestic violence, how to build a trauma-informed practice, and strategies for handling survivor disclosures. An effective, evidence-based approach designed for use in healthcare and clinical settings, the CUES model, will be highlighted to promote universal education of healthy relationships. Signs of domestic violence and mandatory reporting will also be covered. This course is designed for healthcare practitioners such as audiologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists.

The services of a dispensing practice are sought out by patients who range in age, socioeconomic status, health condition and many other factors that can directly impact their health and that of those around them. It is imperative that the dispensing practice ensure the safety of all involved, both patients and staff alike in the prevention of the potential transmission of disease. As new harmful microbes arise and diseases thought to be eradicated return, the dispensing practice must be diligent in practicing proper and consistent infection control. This course will focus on the risk of infection control in the dispensing workplace as well as the development and implementation of an office infection control protocol.

This webinar is designed to meet the requirements of biennial licensure renewal for healthcare licensees in Pennsylvania. Content includes the nature of the child welfare system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the aspects of child abuse in Pennsylvania law, potential indicators of child abuse, the provisions and responsibilities for reporting suspected child abuse, and how to make appropriate referrals to the child welfare system.

This presentation will focus on aiding clinicians in becoming effective preceptors. Foundations for effective precepting will be reviewed as well as strategies and techniques clinicians can implement to support graduate clinicians.

This course provides general considerations for clinical education for audiology students, and is written in an engaging Q & A format.