The challenges presented by novel coronavirus (COVID-19) make it important for healthcare workers to find new ways to work and interact while also caring for themselves. This course provides strategies, exercises, activities and considerations for addressing health and wellness, including stress management, sleep behaviors, and social connectedness. Additionally, trauma symptoms are reviewed along with techniques supervisors can utilize for effective, empathic management.

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.

In order to treat the whole patient, we need an understanding of how stress and trauma impacts their treatment, as well as the importance of self-care to keep us sustained. Participants will be able to identify rising levels of stress, understand trauma, and employ self-care tools to bring them back to effectiveness and wholeness.

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.

Interested in offering accent modification, but don’t know where to start? This course will provide the basic building blocks of what you will need to establish/grow an accent modification business, some potential challenges to be aware of, and resources/tools to help you get started.

This course will describe how to reduce and manage job-related stress by rethinking daily routines and schedules. New strategies and techniques for managing stress and finding balance will be discussed, along with alternatives to multi-tasking.

Leaders are not only found at the top of the organizational chart, but also throughout every level. You likely know people that influence you in a remarkable way without a "Boss" title. This course will explore the ways that you can be a game-changing leader and positive influencer, regardless of your official title.

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 about 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.

This case-based Pearson EBP Brief examined the clinical question, "Do preschool and kindergarten teachers who participate in professional development programs that focus on emergent literacy skills with built-in individualized coaching compared to those who do not participate in professional development programs show enhanced knowledge and/or practice in the classroom environment? The related literature search & analysis, along with the resultant clinical decision & application to clinical practice, will also be discussed.

This course will describe the Triple Aim, an initiative by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which focuses on improving population health, improving patient experience and care, and lowering costs. This is part of the evolving healthcare landscape which focuses on value vs. volume. We will also discuss how SLPs can advocate for their important role in this value-based world.