Elderwerks Continuing Education Opportunities

External Professional

Elderwerks Education Team

Cultural Competency, Ethics, & Legal Topics

Guardianship and Advance Directives Learn about the different types of guardianships, when it is appropriate to have the court step in, and how a guardian can protect and manage an older adults’ estate. CC52 1.0 Nurse, SW, NHA Identifying Implicit Bias in Healthcare All people carry implicit bias with them. Defining implicit bias, explicit bias and other terminology related to culture and inclusion this program will help you understand why we all carry bias with us, where we learned it and how we can be more inclusive and work for equal outcomes for all our patients regardless of their culture. CC54 1.0 Cultural & Ethics/ Nurse, SW, NHA Obtaining Cultural Competency and How it Can Change Outcomes Looking at and learning about different cultures, generational differences and how they affect the workplace can help us better understand how our integration and inclusion as staff can create a happier workplace. In this program you will learn about the national response to the opioid crisis, and common opioids used by older adults. Also discussed will be characteristics of opioid use in older adults, pain management in older adults, as well as the type of pain older adults typically have. We will also discuss the benefits and risks of opioids used to treat older adults, and those age-related changes that impact use of opioids in older adults. CC56 1.0 Ethics/ Nurse, SW, NHA Looking at Opioid Crisis Through a Generational Lens The younger population is not the only generation that has an opioid addiction. Learn the ways different age groups takes the road to opioid addiction, how it affects their lives, the family fall out from addiction and how difficult it is to live “clean.” CC57 1.0 Ethics/ Nurse, SW, NHA CC55 1.0 Cultural/ Nurse, SW, NHA The Opioid Crisis and the Older Adult

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