Engaging & Practical Cultural Competence and Ethics CEU Courses for Social Workers, Nurses, Dental Staff, Psychologists, Therapists, Counselors, and many other Healthcare Providers.

As a healthcare professional gaining continuing education that is experiential and accessible is important as you strive to give the best care. CE education needs to help you gaining the tools and resources to achieve your goals.

Currently there are three different on-demand options for CEU’s to choose from.

The current statistics and impacts are significant if health care professionals are not aware of barriers created by vision and/or hearing loss. Awkward, anger laced interactions and miscommunication are common. Learn how to assess in the moment and help in a way that empowers client success and allows your client to feel cared for. These engaging and practical courses will prepare you for the best interactions to help you promote outcomes that benefit everybody. The experiential exercises allow you to actually experience the different viewpoint of someone with limited sight and/or hearing.

6HR Providing Culturally Competent Health Care for Those Aging with Dual Sensory Impairment Course - $139.00
Addresses the unique needs of the older adult, who may just isolate, and give up agency - hope. They can easily find that adapting is too frustrating if not encouraged by healthcare providers. Learn easy ways to screen for both mild progressive hearing and vision loss. Provide hope and pathways for better outcomes, regardless of client’s income level. So many resources are available to improved their daily living. Course is This course is OHA approved for 6HR CE Cultural Competence, NASW - OR approved for 6HR CE Cultural Competence CE and 6HR Ethics CEUs by CRCC (Commission for Rehabilitation Counselor Certification)

4HR Understanding the Diversity of Legal Blindness, It’s Impacts & Solutions Course - $79.00
Provides you with a holistic viewpoint of the many different ways that vision loss can occur and what to do about it. The same solutions don’t work for everybody. You will learn the importance of providing care and access to documents in a way that will be safe and effective. This course is OHA approved for 4HR CE Cultural Competence and 4HR Ethics CEUs by CRCC (Commission for Rehabiliation Counselor Certification)

2HR Ensuring Effective Communication with Clients Who are Hard of Hearing Course - $69.00
Will not only provide your required CE hours but will provide you with practical tips you can use every day in your work and life to mitigate vision or hearing loss in your patients. OHA and CRCC Approved for 2HR Cultural Competence CE Credit.

Many positive comments have been captured in the course evaluations by nurses, counselors, psychologists, and others who say:

“I wish everybody had to take this course.” “I really enjoyed the course and it was thorough and clear.
“Great Course!” “Course was better than expected, informative and enjoyable”
“I learned so much.” “I really enjoyed the course and ability to do it at my own leisure.”

Not being understood is a frustration for all of us.  Just because hearing loss is part of the equation, does not mean miscommunication needs to be the norm. Shari Eberts in “Does Hearing Loss Cause Us to Misread Emotions?” states not paying attention to what is being missed, can change what is meant.

Come learn how to recognize when hearing loss might be present and why just yelling does not work, and implement effective strategies. Make your message kind and clear.

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Formal Course Objectives

4HR Understanding the Diversity of Legal Blindness, It’s Impacts & Solutions Course
Upon completion of this CE opportunity, participants should be able to:

Objective 1: Upon completion of this CE opportunity, participants shall be able to describe the term “legal blindness” based on federal laws and list at least three types of diversity in both degree and different types of needs for accommodation in order to meet emotional challenges, access the environment, consider transit challenges, need for non-verbal cues, or printed materials that impact this populations’ ability to fully participate in healthcare decisions and treatment.

Objective 2: Upon completion of this CE opportunity, health care professional may learn be able to consider the subtle signs of narrow field loss in their patients and be able to use culturally appropriate questions to determine what would help the patient feel supported and able to ask for supports in the professional’s office to improve safety and trust.

Objective 3: Upon completion of this CE opportunity, participants should be able to tactfully ask questions and probe for needs in a kind and respectful manner so that they may problem solve ways to provide a relationship based in trust and respect for both patient and provider.

Objective 4: Upon completion of this CE opportunity, participants should be able to access ways to provide accommodation through technology and tools and be aware that resources exist and give access to patient’s printed information to meet informed consent rules in an equitable manner per federal and state laws.

2HR Ensuring Effective Communication with Clients Who are Hard of Hearing Course

Upon completion of this CE opportunity, participants should be able to:

Objective 1: identify, assess and change information delivery options when miscommunications could be a factor or result of hearing loss, to prevent lack of informed consent or compliance with instructions.

Objective 2: be aware of the controllable elements of providing best options for effective communications for anyone, but especially for those with mild to moderate hearing loss who do not prefer or know ASL.

Objective 3: to help staff and self to build skills/compassion to address fear/avoidance of people who are loud or often reacting to what they thought they heard.

Objective 4: be able to understand culturally appropriate use of assistive technology, communication cards, helpful apps, and access a list of qualified health care interpreters and other options when an interpreters are requested or best means of clear communication.

About the Instructor: Practical Training Rooted in Real-World Experience

Deb Marinos, MS, CRC, LPC is  a professional teacher and counselor passionate with over 30 years of experience working with her own and hundreds of other clients with hearing and/or vision loss.  Courses are  practical and hands-on with  experiential learning strategies that help health care professionals, educators, and families better connect and navigate needs.

All on-demand courses are delivering immediately usable skills in culturally competent, ethical care for those with vision and/or hearing loss.

Live courses are available for groups upon request. Contact deb@adaptabilityforlife.com

Statistics

If you are wondering how big this population of significant vision loss is?

The newest research is showing a striking number of 10% of all Americans over 40, and 23% of those over 85, have uncorrectable vision loss impacts. Though, not all are "legally blind.” They may just have a diagnosis of going blind or significant difficulty seeing. The following link is to a research project by a cooperative agreement with the CDC's Vision Health Initiative (VHI), NORC at the University of Chicago is leading a 4-year effort to develop the national Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS): https://www.norc.org/Research/Projects/Pages/vision-and-eye-health-surveillance-system.aspx

About 100K in OR are listed "legally blind" by 2010 Census (nfb). According to the Perkins School for the Blind only 2%-8% use a white cane, and only 10% are dog guide teams.

Resources

Title: Oregon Health Authority: Cultural Competence Continuing Education PDF

OHA provides reference page of currently approved cultural competence CE Providers

Title: New Study Links Hearing Loss With Dementia in Older Adults

“This study refines what we’ve observed about the link between hearing loss and dementia, and builds support for public health action to improve hearing care access,”

Source: John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Do you know the signs? Come learn what you need to know to improve your outcomes and communication. There are many myths and misperceptions about sensory loss, especially hearing loss. For example yelling will help. It does not. And yet, there are many adjustments that will make your interactions smoother for all. Here is an article that talks about myths:

Title: Perceptions of hearing loss and hearing technology among the general public and healthcare providers

“Hearing and vision impairment are highly prevalent in ageing individuals and are significant public health concerns given their meaningful impacts on individuals and society. Yet, many cases of both visual and hearing impairment remain unidentified and thus, unaddressed.”

Source: PubMed Central (PMC), part of the NIH’s NCBI digital archive

Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Approved Cultural Competency Continuing Education

CCCE for all licensed Health Care Professionals.

NASW-OR pre-approved 6HR Providing Culturally Competent Health Care for older adults with dual sensory loss provides cultural competence for social workers.