Course Description
Global Uncertainty Amidst COVID-19: Impact On Health Outcomes explores our present climate of global uncertainty, increased anxiety, profound loss of life and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on behavioral and medical health outcomes. The curriculum examines the epidemiology, prevalence rates and community spread. Furthermore, evaluates how COVID-19 exacerbates pre-existing racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and leads to increased morbidity and mortality rates. Practitioners will learn to identify Self-Care Strategies (mindfulness, meditation, breathing and progressive muscle relaxation) to manage distress during these uncertain times.
Course Title: Global Uncertainty Amidst COVD-19: Impact On Health Outcomes
Instructors: Trélan Nicole Holder, MS, LCSW & Terri-Ann O’Sullivan, MS, LCSW, CCRN
Contact Hours/CEUs: 4-Hours
Format: Online Self-Study Course (Text-based Readings and Videos)
Process: Register and pay for course. Read content online. Pass online post-test and print certificate of completion. Registrants can access course for 2 years from date of registration.
Learning Objectives:
- Acquire an understanding of virology
- Define the medical term—virus
- Define the term—pandemic
- Explore the etiology of viral infection, specific to the colony of coronaviruses
- Identify the novel characteristics of COVID-19
- Recognize the criteria for diagnosis, treatment regimen and prevention methods
- Examine the global impact of COVID-19
- Acquire knowledge specific to epidemiology, prevalence rates and community spread
- Examine The United States National Pandemic Response To COVID (Surging Death Toll and PPE Crisis)
- Evaluate how COVID-19 exacerbates pre-existing racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and leads to increased morbidity and mortality rates
- Explore COVID-19 public health guidelines, healthcare policies and government legislation (CARES Act)
- Evaluate how COVID-19 impacts mental and behavioral health
- Assess Secondary Trauma and Moral Injury in Frontline Healthcare Workers
- Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse
- Approaches to managing the family system and talking to children about COVID-19
- Explore approaches to managing COVID-19 imposed telecommuting and work-life balance
- Identify Self-Care Strategies (mindfulness, meditation, breathing and progressive muscle relaxation)
Course Features
- Lectures 76
- Quizzes 5
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 49
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Self