Providers Earn Free Continuing Education Credits
Unified Health Communication (UHC): Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency
http://www.hrsa.gov/publichealth/healthliteracy/
Unified Health Communication (UHC): Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency is free, on-line, go-at-your-own-pace training that has helped more than 4,000 health care professionals and students improve patient-provider communication.
Take the course any time, night or day, to improve your ability to communicate with patients and overcome barriers that can keep patients from taking their medications according to your instructions, going to the emergency room when they would be better served in primary care or otherwise preventing them from getting the full benefit of the quality care you provide.
Project ICE
http://www.indianaprojectice.org/web/index.php
Project ICE is a three-year program, funded through the Health Resources and Services Administration, designed to improve the health and well-being of persons with mental illness and or intellectual disabilities who also manage diabetes and reside in a rural Indiana county. It is directed by a consortium of service providers that includes Anthony Wayne Services, MDwise, ADVANTAGE Care Select, and ASPIN.
The goals of Project ICE are to improve health outcomes through enhanced diabetes management achieved through the cross-training of care-providers on best practices of diabetes management and strategies for working with the targeted population. The initial trainings will be a series of traditional face-to-face interdisciplinary presentations for care-providers on diabetes, mental illness and intellectual disabilities and how these delivery silos can support coordinated care for the targeted population. Care-providers include Direct Support Professionals, Mental Health Case Managers, Clinicians, Certified Diabetes Educators, Psychiatric Nurses and any other health care professional that touches those impacted by diabetes and a mental illness or intellectual disability.
Health Literacy
http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/registration/detailpage.asp?res_id=2074
http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/registration/detailpage.asp?res_id=2074
To help public health professionals respond to the problem of limited health literacy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have launched a free "Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals Online Training" program. The purpose of this training is to educate public health professionals about limited health literacy and their role in addressing it in a public health context.
This is a web-based course and can be accessed 24/7 by any computer with Internet access. It takes 1.5 to 2 hours to complete. Trainees can earn a variety of continuing education credits. You can access the training program from: http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/registration/detailpage.asp?res_id=2074.
For a link to CDC's and other HHS' agencies' health literacy sites, check out AHRQ's Health Literacy and Cultural Competence Resource Links at: http://www.ahrq.gov/browse/hlitres.htm.
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