19NE011 - MAHEC Project ECHO® for School Nurses - 11 Part Video Teleconference Series

Description

Project ECHO® is a lifelong learning and guided practice model that revolutionizes nursing education to provide best-practice specialty care and reduce health disparities. ECHO is led by an expert team that uses multi-point videoconferencing to conduct virtual learning sessions comprised of a short didactic followed by case presentations provided by participants.

Module 1 Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Module 2 Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Module 3 Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Module 4 Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Module 5 Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Module 6 Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Module 7 Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Module 8 Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Module 9 Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Module 10 Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Module 11 Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Login time for every Module is 7:50 am. Each learning session is one hour from 8 am to 9 am.
The snow date for each module will be the following Wednesday, when feasible.

This tele-videoconferencing series guided by experts takes place bi-monthly over eleven modules and will cover topics specific to school nurses including:

Diabetes Management in Schools
Pediatric Seizure Disorders
Hypertension: New Pediatric Guidelines
Asthma
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) + CFRAFFT 2.0
Mental Health: Depression & Suicide Prevention
Dermatology: Safe at School? When to refer
Return to Learn: Concussion Management
Brief Negotiated Interviews (BNI)
Motivational Interviewing (MI) Skills
Practice Sessions: Using Motivational Interviewing (MI) Techniques

NOTE: School nurse participants will be assigned a case that they will present to faculty and peers for direct feedback. Nurses must attend 80% of this education series (9 out of 11 webinars) for CNE credit.

Please see the PDF Brochure for more details. Coming soon!

Target Audience

School Nurses in North Carolina

Objectives

• Identify interventions for assessing and managing dermatological conditions, hypertension, diabetes, mental health disorders, asthma, seizure disorders and concussion
• Implement the Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and CRAFFT 2.0 screening tools in schools
• Develop skills to conduct Brief Negotiated Interviews (BNI) and use Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills in student interviews, healthy behavior reinforcement conversations, brief interventions, and referrals during the SBIRT process

Faculty

• Susan Alexander, MD, FAAFP
• Annie Fahy, RN, BSN, MSN, LCSW
• Suzette M. LaRoche, MD
• Josh Schactman, MSW, LCAS, LCSW
• Aaron Vaughan, MD, CAQSM