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.

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.

Because there is no recipe, managing chronic/persistent pain in home health can be challenging and daunting. This course will dive into the realms of neuroscience and best practice for helping clinicians aid their patient’s to better self-manage their pain based on current available research.

This training describes the required elements for responding to the emerging needs of long term care communities to provide sensitive and respectful services to LGBT elders. The training reviews definitions related to sexual orientation and gender identity challenges experienced by LGBT older adults, and strategies for communication and policies that honor residents' rights.

This course focuses on pain management programming in the long-term care setting from a therapist perspective as well as the interdisciplinary team approach. Participants will be able to define the classifications of pain, discuss how and why to implement pain management programming, understand the assessment process, identify skilled treatment options including a review of physical agents, and understand the components skilled documentation.

The goal of this course is to educate providers regarding Human Trafficking. The course will, along with providing the definition of Human Trafficking and explaining the various aspects of the definition, give providers tools in the recognition and care of potential victims of Human Trafficking.

This seminar offers an in-depth review of Medicare Part B coding and billing, including CPT coding, unit to minute conversion, appropriate use of evaluation codes, modifiers, and G codes is offered. Using multiple examples, therapists will learn how to be compliant with coding, thorough in documentation to support skilled interventions, and detailed to avoid common errors. A review of elements known to trigger medical review including coding and documentation to support the plan of care is offered and tips and strategies for successfully managing medical review will be explored.

This course is designed to cover the infection control compliance requirements for professionals in a healthcare setting.

This session discusses the benefits of social media and how occupational therapy practitioners can properly use social media to augment practice and patient/client care. It explains the difference between one’s professional social media profile and one’s personal social media profile. It also discusses case law and reports of legal blunders that have led to arrest, loss of license, and/or job termination because of poor judgment, lack of professionalism, and unknowing misuse of social media – and how to avoid these blunders.

This 5-module empirically supported training program will address suicide awareness, screening, intervention, and referral principles for allied health professionals. Age and population specific suicide assessment tools, management principles, and case studies will be presented. This course was designed to meet the training program requirements in suicide assessment, treatment and management for the state of Kentucky.