Engaging & Practical Cultural Competence Courses for Nursing, Psychologists, Therapists, and any other Health Care Providers. Your choice of Live, Virtual Classes on Zoom and On-demand recorded class.
Vision & hearing loss can progress with age and can make for awkward interactions and miscommunication. As a nurse, MH provider, Dr., or therapist, it may be hard to know how to know how to help in a way that empowers and allows your client to feel connected and cared for. This course will prepare you for the best interactions to help you promote outcomes that benefit everybody. You will be encouraged to do the experiential exercises, in order to actually experience the viewpoint of someone with limited sight or hearing. Learn solutions that are low-cost and simple to implement.
If you need your credits soon, as in today or whenever. Check out the OHA-approved Understanding the Diversity of Legal Blindness, Its Impacts & Solutions 3HR CE class $97 HERE
This course 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 access to documents and care in a way that will be safe and effective. See the objectives listed below. 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”.
Live Virtual, totally interactive, experiential 2HR OHA approved Classes: Ensuring Effective Communication with Clients Who are Hard of Hearing is a class that will not only provide your required CE hours, but will provide you with practical tips you can use everyday in your work and life to mitigate vision or hearing loss in your patients.
Friday, May 17, 2024 10:00AM-12:00PM PT
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. Come learn why just yelling does not work, and implement effective strategies. Make your message kind and clear.
https://adaptabilityforlife.thinkific.com/collections/cultural-competence
On-demand course
Understanding the Diversity of Legal Blindness, Its Impacts & Solutions
A practical and experiential course for anyone. Designed for people with vision loss, health care providers (3HR Cultural Competence CE), and families/educators.
$97 Available 24/7 - whenever you are ready! After completing the quiz at the end, you will get your certificate automatically..
Learn where and how you can provide valuable support—helping them understand that prejudice and injustice do not need to dictate their path. And providing that space for the pain of not being understood or believed in.
Legal blindness does not equal the inability to read or work. So much technology and skills have opened doors to printed materials. Yet, things like facial cues that change the remark from serious to silly or friendly to menacing are missing. Miscommunications abound and can often get in the way of making a good connection. Don’t let this happen in your work!
Become aware of different presentations of legal blindness, and the negative impacts of not understanding their needs on relationship building and safety. Save yourself that stress of feeling inadequate. Gain practical skills and tools that will let you feel competent, with a culture that is unfamiliar to you.
Practice asking culturally appropriate questions.
Learn how to provide emotional support that empowers your vision-impaired clients.
Discover low-cost resources that make your forms readily accessible.
Objectives for the Understanding the Diversity of Legal Blindness, It’s Impacts & Solutions: Part 1 Basics. course:
Upon completion of the The student may be able to know:
How to assess what size font works best
How to ask questions that empower the client
How loss of clarity or field of view differ in functional limitations and needs.
Easy & low-cost ways to make forms accessible
Skills to safely assist clients around your office
Resources to improve function & independence
Class resources include:
Printable Signature Guide Template
Size of Font Assessment PDF
Printable vision simulators for AMD, Glaucoma, Cataracts or Corneal Issues, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Stargardt’s, diabetes, TBI and macular degeneration
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.
See the following link to a research project by a cooperative agreement with 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). for more information.
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 10K are dog guide teams.
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Approved Cultural Competency Continuing Ed. CCCE for all licensed Health Care Professionals.
Formal Objectives:
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 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.
Get your free tools by clicking on the links here: Free Download Signature Guide Template
Language is everything and it can heal or harm.
If you have a group and prefer to set up a personalized Zoom CE training for your team, please email me at Deb@adaptaptabiltyforlife.com to discuss your options.
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About the Instructor:
Deb Marinos, MS is a licensed MH counselor in Oregon and holds a national certification in rehabilitation counseling from CRCC. She has also provided training & coaching for the past 30 years to electricians, people with disabilities & healthcare providers. Her experiences in a nontraditional career path allow her to be more open & -sensitive to others’ needs for inclusion, regardless of their uniqueness. She has both lived and professional experience with legal blindness with much diversity.