SCCAPE 2022- Sickle Cell Care Coordination for Achieving Patient Empowerment Conference

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LIVEAMAANCCASWB ACE IPCE

Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 8:15 AM - Friday, April 1, 2022, 4:30 PM EST, Virtual event, NA, VA

This objective of this course is to provide the content needed for participants to function as a sickle cell disease health navigator (SCD HN) or work in a sickle cell medical care team. This is an interprofessional activity for allied health professionals and community-based staff or volunteers. This program includes topics in the US healthcare delivery system, sickle cell disease and its treatments, racism and health disparities, communication techniques, mental health, transition and community-based organizations and much more!

1. Review sickle cell disease pathology, complications, treatments and its impact on a person’s general health and lifestyle.
2. Review the impact of COVID-19 on the care and health of patients with Sickle Cell Disease.
3. Describe the role and responsibilities of a SCD HN or medical care team member working with patients diagnosed with sickle cell disease and the other comorbid conditions including psychosocial issues.
4. Demonstrate effective communication using techniques such as motivational interviewing based upon knowledge of models such as the Health Belief Model and the Trans theoretical Model.
5. Demonstrate effective communication techniques such as motivational interviewing, based upon knowledge of models such as Adult Learning Theory, Health Belief Model and Transtheoretical Model.
6. Discuss how racism, complicit and implicit bias and health disparities impact the health and healthcare of persons with SCD.
7. Describe the U.S. health care delivery system, including the roles of direct providers, allied health professionals, and members of the public health infrastructure
8. Identify the network of SCD services for referral and resources in the communities they serve.
9. Review the principles of HIPPA requirements, confidentiality and ethical boundaries between patients and HN as it relates to SCD healthcare.
10. Explore a variety of strategies of HN’s or medical team members which can use to assist patients to obtain healthy lifestyles and become more self-sufficient.
11. Discuss how a sickle cell medial home is developed and describe the critical components of a program.

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There is no registration fee to participate in this activity. 

Registration will close on March 28, 2022 at 12:00 PM

In support of improving patient care, VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 25.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

VCU Health designates this activity for a maximum of 25.5 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, VCU Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. VCU Health maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 25.5 live continuing education credits.

Disclaimers
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

Accommodation
All participants have the right to participate in this continuing education activity without discrimination due to age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex (sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and pregnancy), protected veteran status, marital status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.  If you need accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact us at [email protected] for more information. 

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (25.50 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (25.50 hours), ASWB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) (25.50 hours), IPCE - Interprofessional Continuing Education Credit (25.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (25.50 hours)