Description

This online speech therapy CEU course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs.

 

Course Format: Text.

 

This e-course was designed to provide participants with strategies that facilitate emotional stability while working in a healthcare environment. Specific techniques and strategies are presented to help healthcare practitioners successfully address common difficult and potentially stressful situations that could cause loss of job focus and unsatisfactory patient care. The stressful situations discussed include productivity issues, ethical concerns, loss of employment and other situations that could cause emotional instability and negative outcomes at work....and at home.

 

Please note:  This eCourse is set up to be flexible to accomodate all schedules.  You do not have to complete this program in one sitting.  You can access the course materials as many times as you need to in order to complete all the sections. 

Testimonial:

"I have taken courses from NSS for over 15 years. I have never been disappointed. The online course "Managing Your Emotions in a Healthcare Environment" came at a time when I most needed it — a low point in my career. The perspectives and suggestions given helped me reflect upon the aspects of my work environment that were in my control and those that were not. I was able to look at my thoughts and actions and review them in a different light. Thank you for providing this course."

—A. Ross, SLP
Kamloops, B.C.

 

OT Content Focus
Professional Issues: Supervision

Course Objectives

At e-course conclusion, participants will be able to:

1. List negative emotions that result in loss of focus and unsatisfactory patient care.
2. List three characteristics of a person demonstrating emotional instability.
3. State five beliefs that promote emotional stability.
4. List three characteristics of a person demonstrating emotional stability.

A score of 80% or better must be received on the post-test in order to
receive a certificate of completion.


 

Author Profile

Thomas J. Slominski, MA, CCC-SLP, is a Speech-Language Pathologist who has been in private practice since 1972. Mr. Slominski is a nationally recognized expert regarding third-party documentation issues. For the past 15 years he has presented documentation seminars to SLPs and other healthcare professionals. Of the over 8,000 participants who have attended Mr. Slominski's seminars, 96% said they would recommend his seminar to a colleague. Also, Mr. Slominski is the author of Medicare Guidelines Explained for the SLP and editor of two other Medicare documentation manuals: Medicare Guidelines Explained for the PT and Medicare Guidelines Explained for the OT.

Location & Lodging

 

Intended Audience

• BCBA
• Teach/Educ
• Student
• Rec Therapist
• Nurse
• Psych
• PTA
• PT
• OT
• SLPA
• SLP

Accreditation

This course is offered for .2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level; Related area.)

First Content Focus: Professional Issues: Supervision

 

Per our longstanding procedures with ASHA, we submit CEU information to ASHA quarterly, so your CEUs will be reflected as completed on the last day of that quarter.  For instance, if you complete a course on December 7th, 2011, it will be reported to ASHA in January 2012, and it will be reflected in your ASHA account as completed on December 31st, 2011.  However, for submitting to your state board or for your own records, you will receive a certificate of completion with the actual completion date. 

AOTA: Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. #4095.
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.