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Partners on the CHW Specialty Training Work Group:
Avery Health Education and Consulting, LLC
Carolina Community Tracing Collaborative
Central Piedmont Community College
CommUnity Healing through Activism and Strategic Mobilization (CHASM) Institute
Durham Tech Community College
Duke AHEC
Mountain AHEC
NC AHEC
NC Community Health Center Association
NC CHW Association
NC DHHS Office of Rural Health
North Central Carolina University
NorthWest AHEC
Piedmont AHEC
Saint Augustine's University
South Piedmont
Southern Regional AHEC
Wake AHEC
UNC Pembroke
Approximate time to complete the course: 90 minutes
Learner content includes: Video, corresponding course handout, exercises and a brief post test
Participants have unlimited time to complete this course and access course materials.
This course is part of the online NC AHEC Community Health Worker courses of recorded content.
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Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
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Describe the role that accurate and effective documentation plays in providing high quality, safe, effective, timely, and culturally appropriate care |
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Identify specific tools and resources to guide and capture key information from client interview |
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Describe the role that client record documentation has played in causing harm to individuals (e.g., terminology used, stigma, implicit bias) |
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Describe the key components of HIPAA regulations that apply to the work of CHWs (e.g., client record documentation, social media, texting, email, computer passwords) |
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Describe additional roles that documentation plays in promoting effective care and CHW sustainability (e.g., data collection used to demonstrate impact and for guiding care for clients, billing, coding, and quality performance that all align with payment) |
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Describe the basic competencies needed by CHWs in order to be successful in client record documentation |
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Define "HIPAA" and implications of HIPAA violations |
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List culturally responsive terminology to use and terminology NOT to use |
The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire online continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.20 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.
MAHEC designates this online continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 1.50 Contact Hours.
Community health workers, lay health workers, outreach workers, and other frontline public health workers improving the health of their communities, and the supervisors, colleagues and allies of the CHW workforce.
8/31 10:00 AM – 10:00 AM
MAHEC has a pay-up-front policy for all CE programs. The only exceptions will be for pre-approved programs where an individual payment plan is appropriate. Registrations received without accompanying payment will not be processed and participants who have not paid the course fee will not be admitted into the program.
Unless otherwise noted in course materials, the following cancellation policy applies to all programs: