Compliance And Regulatory CEU Courses for SLPs

This course focuses on the fundamental components of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): Standard Transactions and Code Sets, HIPAA 5010, National Identifiers, Privacy (including protected health information), Security, and Breach Notification. It also describes how to document HIPAA compliance and discusses the impact of HIPAA on marketing and telepractice.

This course addresses infection control precautions both broadly and as related to COVID-19. It discusses how to select personal protective equipment, hand hygiene products, and disinfectants that are appropriate for specific clinical situations and settings, as well as how to properly implement these and other infection control measures.

The purpose of this course is to educate allied health care professionals on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) fundamentals. Incidence, transmission, and prevention and infection control considerations relevant to patient management will be outlined.

This course will discuss pain definitions, pain perception, principles of quality pain management, including therapeutic communication about pain, and prevention of transition to chronic pain, in order to improve understanding of the relationship between the opioid epidemic and pain management. It will also review the literature discussing the relationship between hearing loss and opioid misuse.

Harassment, and more specifically, sexual harassment, is illegal. This course reviews the definition of sexual harassment, ways to prevent harassment, and what to do should harassment occur in the workplace.

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 course is designed to meet the requirements of biennial licensure renewal for healthcare licensees in Pennsylvania. Content includes the nature of the child welfare system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the aspects of child abuse in Pennsylvania law, potential indicators of child abuse, the provisions and responsibilities for reporting suspected child abuse, and how to make appropriate referrals to the child welfare system.

The course addresses the health disparities of individuals who are LGBTQ (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender) based on the social determinants of health, including barriers to accessing care, lack of routine sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection, discrimination, and lack of provider knowledge about LGBTQ health.

Engagement of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) populations is critical to providing culturally responsive care and population-based health to reduce health disparities. This course provides an overview of LGBTQ health disparities, demographics, and terminology, as well as key strategies for bringing high quality care to LGBTQ people at health centers and other health care organizations. Participants will also learn about inclusive and effective communication with LGBTQ patients.

This course provides practitioners with introductory information regarding the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Participants will gain knowledge of the law and will be able to discern how the law applies to their practice.