Illinois Required Hours Bundle

Description

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Training – Credit Hours: 1Clinical

Alzheimer’s dementia affects over 6 million people in the US today and is expected to double by the year 2050. This course will explain the different types of dementia and especially Alzheimer’s disease dementia and how it may affect the Chiropractic patient. This course will cover the following topics:

• Dementia defined.
• The different types of dementia and their characteristics.
• The difference between dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Alzheimer’s Disease characteristics, stages, and statistics.
• Theories of Cognitive Decline: Amyloid Protein Theory, Tau Hypothesis, and Cholinergic Hypothesis and genetic link.
• Pharmaceutical treatments used for Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Nutritional treatments for Cognitive Decline including:
• Lifestyle changes to decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

This course satisfies the Illinois Chiropractic continuing education mandated requirement.

Implicit Bias Awareness Training – Credit Hours: 1Risk Management

We all have biases, unsupported assumptions we make about people or groups. Implicit bias refers to the various social stereotypes and judgments that people unknowingly assign to others based on a variety of factors. There is no place that bias training is needed more than in our current healthcare system. This 1 hour seminar will give you the understanding of how to make yourself, office, and staff more compliant in cultural diversity.  You will understand the differences between implicit and explicit bias and what cause us to be biased to our patients and community. This seminar will give you the tools to change your office’s policie, communications, and services to be more culturally competent and avoid both implicit and explicit bias.  This course is approved for Implicit Bias state requirements for Illinois Chiropractic continuing education and is sure to enlighten you.

Sexual Harassment Prevention Training – Credit Hours: 1Risk Management

The purpose of this course is to train the Chiropractor on strategies to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace especially with patients and staff. Case studies and Illinois laws relating to understanding and avoiding ethical and sexual harassment issues in the Chiropractic setting will be used. The following topics will be covered:

• Defining Sexual Harassment
• Reporting Sexual Harassment based on the state laws of Illinois
• The Basis for the Doctor / Patient Relationship
• Terminology Associated with Sexual Harassment Prevention
• How to Reduce Exposure
• Boundary Violation vs. Boundary Crossing
• Preparing for High Risk Situations
• Case studies
• Issue Warning Signs
• Guidelines for Prevention

This course satisfies the Illinois Chiropractic continuing education requirement for sexual harassment prevention training.