Course Type: Course

  • Course 2: Core Competencies for Providing Direct Services

    Course 2: Core Competencies for Providing Direct Services

    Course 2: Core Competencies for Providing Direct Services includes the following modules

    • Module 6: Cultural Humility, Implicit Bias
    • Module 7: Guiding Principles for Community Health Workers
    • Module 8: Conducting Initial Client Interviews
    It should take approximately 5 hours to complete

  • Course 3: Enhancing Client Interactions

    Course 3: Enhancing Client Interactions

    Course 3: Enhancing Client Interactions includes the following modules

    • Module 9: Client-Centered Counseling
    • Module 10: Care Management
    • Module 11: Home Visiting
    It should take approximately 8.5 hours to complete this course.
  • Course 4: Enhancing Professional Skills

    Course 4: Enhancing Professional Skills

    Course 4: Enhancing Professional Skills includes the following modules

    • Module 12: Stress Management and Self-Care
    • Module 13: Conflict Resolution
    • Module 14: CHW Professional Skills
    It should take approximately 3 hours to complete
  • Course 5: Applying Core Competencies to Key Health Issues

    Course 5: Applying Core Competencies to Key Health Issues

    Course 5: Applying Core Competencies to Key Health Issues includes the following modules

    • Module 15: Chronic Conditions Management
    • Module 16: Promoting Healthy Eating & Active Living
    • Module 17: Trauma and Recovery
    • Module 18: Health Outreach & Navigating Community-based Resources
    • Module 19: Managing COVID Response & Recover
    • Module 20: Evaluation & Research
    It should take approximately 6.5 hours to complete
  • Fundamentals of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Clinical Laboratories

    Fundamentals of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Clinical Laboratories

    Safety is imperative when working with potentially harmful materials and other hazards in the laboratory. This course is designed to assist clinical and public health laboratory professionals with applying risk management strategies to identify hazards,
    assess risks, and select appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) options.

    Objectives

    At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

    • Describe how PPE helps protect laboratory professionals.
    • Recognize hazards and risks associated with laboratory procedures.
    • Identify PPE options, limitations, and considerations for selecting appropriate PPE.
    • Select appropriate PPE options for given clinical laboratory scenarios.

    Length

    1 hour

    Continuing Education Units (CEU)

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Laboratory Systems is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. This course is approved for 1.0 contact hour.
    P.A.C.E.® course number: 288-002-22.

  • Antibiotic Resistance and Laboratory Response in Iowa

    Antibiotic Resistance and Laboratory Response in Iowa

    Description and Objectives

    This webinar will review;

    • Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms (CPOs) that are trending in Iowa
    • reporting orders and healthcare-associated infection investigations
    • the difference between carbapenem resistant and carbapenemase producing
    • organisms
    • methods to detect CPOs
    • the isolate submission requirements and surveillance testing done at SHL

    Intended Audience

    The intended audience of this session are laboratorians and local health officials.

    Length

    50 minutes

    Continue Education Credit

    P.A.C.E. credit is available (details within presentation)

  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

    Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

    Goal

    This course is designed for local public health agencies and professionals who may be involved in public health disasters. The goals of the course are to:

    • Increase awareness of the importance of using PPE in public health emergencies and crises.
    • Reinforce appropriate PPE in different crisis situations and biohazards.

    Intended Audience

    The intended audience for this course is local public health employees/ agencies and “on site” professionals who may be involved in public health emergencies such as flooding, disease outbreak,  hurricanes and floods, debris cleanup, mass fatalities, or any other related public health emergencies.

    Length

    The length of time for participants to take this course is estimated to be one hour.

    Capabilities Identified:

    • Capability 14: Responder Safety and Health
      • Function 1: Identify responder safety and health risks
      • Function 2: Identify safety and personal protective needs
      • Function 3: Coordinate with partners to facilitate risk-specific safety and health training.
      • Function 4: Monitor responder safety and health actions

    Competencies Identified:

    • 1.4 Maintain situational awareness.
      • 1.4.3 Use information and resources that identify changes in the situation and/or response.
      • 1.4.7 Distinguish between critical and non-critical elements of the emergency.
      • 1.4.9 Develop a method for realigning response actions as crisis events evolve.
    • 4.2 Employ protective behaviors according to changing conditions, personal limitations, and threats.
      • 4.2.1 Discuss the need to protect worker health and safety in emergencies and disasters.
      • 4.2.2 Categorize potential threats and emergencies.
      • 4.2.3 Promote taking protective actions in response to current and changing threats.
      • 4.2.4 Describe the relationship among protective measures, behaviors, and reduction of worker risk of injury or illness.
      • 4.2.5 Describe the hierarchy of control measures.
      • 4.2.6 Describe how the selection of control measures may evolve as conditions change.
      • 4.2.8 Discuss public health worker’s roles and responsibilities in designing, implementing and evaluating engineering, administrative, work practice and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) control measures.
      • 4.2.9 Organize a system for reporting injuries, illnesses, and potential emergency harmful exposures to protect workers.
      • 4.2.10 Apply decontamination procedures as necessary during the emergency or disaster response
      • 4.2.11 Employ practices to minimize exposures to agents and hazards during an emergency.
      • 4.2.13 Exhibit personal hygiene practices that minimize exposure to chemical, biological, or radiological agents that may be present during emergencies and disasters.
      • 4.2.14 Demonstrate proper use and maintenance of assigned Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in an emergency.
      • 4.2.15 Demonstrate correct donning of chemical protective clothing, respiratory protection, protective eyewear, protective footwear, hearing protection, gloves, and any other assigned Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
      • 4.2.16 Apply the proper methods to maintain, store, decontaminate and dispose of different types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

    Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Adopted Oct 21,2021 Version)

    Domain 1: Data Analytics and Assessment Skills

    1.8.5 Identifies public health programs and organizations with authority to address specific community health needs (e.g., lead in housing, water fluoridation, bike lanes, emergency preparedness, infectious disease outbreaks)

    Course Content

    There are four sections in this course:

    Section 1: Incident, Hazards, and PPE
    Section 2: Donning and Doffing PPE
    Section 3: Importance of Personal Protective Equipment
    Activity: PPE Challenge!

    There are review questions at the end of  Sections 1 through 3. These review questions provide you with an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills presented in these sections. There is a Posttest at the end of the course.

    Learning Objectives

    Section 1: Incidents, Hazards, and PPE

    After completing this section, participants will be able to:

    • Identify different types and levels of PPE.
    • Match the hazards, risks, and the recommended PPE.
    • Describe the limitations of PPE in protecting yourself and others from injury.
    • Explain the appropriate use of PPE and other protocols (standard precautions, expanded precautions, and hand hygiene) in protecting yourself and others from infectious disease.

    Section 2: Donning and Doffing PPE

    After completing this section, participants will be able to:

    • Describe how to properly don, adjust,  wear, and doff the most common types of PPE.
    • Explain how to maintain PPE properly.

    Section 3: Importance of PPE

    After completing this section, participants will be able to:

    • Explain the importance of PPE.
    • Describe lessons learned when personal protective equipment (PPE) is not used.

    Activity – PPE Challenge!

    After completing this section, participants will be able to:

    • Select the appropriate PPE for the given incidents.

    Certificate of Completion

    A certificate of completion is awarded on successful completion of this course. In order to successfully complete this course, you MUST score 70% or higher on the Posttest.

    If you do not receive 70% on the posttest, you may review the material and re-take it. The posttest will become available for a re-take 2 days after your first attempt.

    Modality/Format

    Online Self-Pace

    Length

    1 hour

    Technical Requirements

    • Adobe Acrobat Reader 
    • Speakers

    Course Redesign and Redevelopment (June 2023)

    Subject Matter Expert & Narrator

    • Douglas Rierson

    Instructional Designers & Developers

    • Christine McQuillan 
    • Dena Fife
    • Alyssa Azhari 

    Audio/Video Production

    • Melissa Richlen

    LMS Coordinator

    • Tim Beachy

    Course Creation and/or Update

    June 2023

    Acknowledgements

    The following organizations collaborated on the development of this course: Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH); University of Iowa College of Public Health, Institute for Public Health Practice (IPHP).

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  • Pandemic:  A Critical Thinking Scenario

    Pandemic: A Critical Thinking Scenario

    Goal

    The goal of this scenario is to assess and train mid-level public health professionals in the application of critical thinking as a means of solving problems related to community preparedness for public health emergencies, such as an Influenza Pandemic.

    The scenario is based on the Critical Thinking course as well as using the established model of Critical Thinking that has six steps:

    1. Identify and Define the Problem
    2. Gather Information
    3. Develop Alternatives
    4. Select an Alternative
    5. Implement the Solution
    6. Evaluate the Solution

    Intended Audience

    The audience for this course consists of mid-level public health professionals and/or those responsible for community preparedness planning.

    Length

    The length of time for participants to take this course is estimated to be one hour or less.

    Learning Objectives

    After completion of the course, learners should be able to:

    • Identify the problem and resulting issues
    • Assess the information and resources to effectively address the problem.
    • Identify any constraints on possible solutions to a problem situation.
    • Employ an appropriate method to effectively generate alternative solutions to a problem situation
    • Develop an action plan for implementing a solution to the problem.

    Public Health Preparedness Capabilities 

    Capability 1: Community Preparedness

    • Function 1: Determine risks to the health of the jurisdiction

    Capability 2: Community Recovery

    • Function 1: Identify and monitor public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health system recovery needs

    PERLC Competencies (KSA)

    Domain I: Model Leadership

    1.1 Solve Problems under emergency conditions

    1. Recognize emergency conditions and the resulting problems
    2. Evaluate the level of hazard or risk
    3. Prioritize problems based on level of hazard and degree of risk
    4. Analyze dysfunctions within a public health emergency response system
    5. Assure responsibility for responding when needed in the event of public health emergency
    6. Summarize the means, methods, and processes for solving the problems
    7. Prioritize problems based on severity, urgency, and solvability
    8. Assess information, resources and procedures necessary to address the problems in emergency situations
    9. Implement action to solve the problems in timely fashion
    10. Differentiate among the consequences of specific decisions
    11. Assume responsibility for taking specific actions that further organizational mission or population health in the presence of a public health emergency
    12. Explain how different personality types impact performance during emergency situations
    13. Maintain awareness of one’s own tolerance for risk
    14. Recognize the ethical and moral implications of decisions made through a chain of command
    15. Refer problems that fall outside one’s scope of authority to the appropriate person in the chain of command.

    Course Navigation

    The course will be set up as an interactive scenario in which users are directed to answer various questions at key points in the story. Users can answer the question by using the information provided in a “Need Help” section.

    There will be options to help the user, such as “More Info,” which is content specific to the question, “Resources,” and “Tips,” are snippets of information, job aid tools and the course guide. These options are provided as a means to help the user answer the question.

    Certificate of Completion

    A certificate of completion is awarded on successful completion of this course. In order to successfully complete this course, you MUST score 80% or higher on the overall course module.

    Modality/Format

    Online Self-Pace

    Acknowledgements

    Voice Talent: David Freeman

    Length

    1 hour

    Technical Requirements

    • Adobe Acrobat Reader 
    • Speakers

    Course Redesign and Redevelopment (June 2023)

    Subject Matter Expert & Narrator

    • Tricia Kitzmann, MPH

    Instructional Designers & Developer

    • Alyssa Azhari 
    • Dena Fife

    Audio/Video Production

    • Melissa Richlen

    Video Voice Talent

    • David Freeman

    LMS Coordinator

    • Tim Beachy

    Course Creation and/or Update

    June 2023

    Acknowledgements

    The following organizations collaborated on the development of this course: Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH); University of Iowa College of Public Health, Institute for Public Health Practice (IPHP).

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    Technical requirements

    • Adobe Acrobat Reader 
    • Flash Player 
    • Speakers

    Registration requirements

    Register a free account

    Creation and/or update

    June 2023

  • Off-Road Vehicle Hazards

    Off-Road Vehicle Hazards

    Goal

    The goal of Off-Road Vehicle Hazards is to provide an overview of off-road vehicle used in agriculture and understand how to minimize and prevent injuries.

    Intended Audience

    The intended audience for this course is rural health professionals.

    Length

    The length for this course is approximately 60 minutes depending on the individual user. Upon completion of the course, you will get a certificate of completion from the Great Plains Center of Agricultural Health at the University of Iowa College of Public
    Health.

    Prerequisite Requirement

    NA, however, it is advisable that you have some basic understanding of agricultural environment.

    Learning Objectives

    At the end of this course, you will be able to:

    • Describe how off-road vehicles are used in agriculture.
    • Recognize the hazards that arise with the use of off-road vehicles.
    • Apply the hierarchy of controls to reduce the risk involved with the use of off-road vehicles.

    Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals

    Domain 3: Communication Skills

    • 3A2. Communicates in writing and orally with linguistic and cultural proficiency (e.g., using age-appropriate materials, incorporating images).

    Before you begin, please take the pretest. The
    pretest score will not be counted toward your final score.

    Content

    The content for this course is an overview of off-road vehicles and the hazards that can arise with the use of off-road vehicles.

    The course includes a learning module with interactivity and scenario application activities, a list of resources, and a post-test at the end of this course. A Certificate of Completion is awarded on successful completion of this course. In order to successfully
    complete this course, you MUST score 70% or higher on the post-test. If you do not receive 70% on the post-test, you may review the material and re-take it.

    Continuing Education Credit

    This course has been approved for continuing education credit for the following professions (details available in course materials):

    • Nurse/Nurse Practitioner – ANCC contact hour(s)
    • Pharmacist/Pharmacy Technician – ACPE contact hour(s)
    • Physician – AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)
    • Other Health Care Providers – A certificate of participation stating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ the course awards will be available after successful completion of the course. (It is the responsibility of licensees to determine if
      this continuing education activity meets the requirements of their professional licensure board.)

    A separate registration process will be required after successful completion of the course.

    Acknowledgements

    The following organizations collaborated on the development of this course: The Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health and the Midwestern Public Health Training Center, University of Iowa College of Public Health (MPHTC–UICPH).

    This project is supported by Grant Number 5 U54 OH007548-11 from the CDC – NIOSH for the Agricultural Medicine Core Course (Diane Rohlman, PI) a project within the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health (Renee Anthony, PI).  Course contents
    are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or NIOSH.

    Development Team:

    Charles Jennissen MD & Gerene Denning MD (primary content developers), Diane Rohlman PhD, LaShelle Morrison MS, Matt Nonnenmann PhD CIH, and Kay Mohling MA

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    provided by:
    Shutterstock and Getty Images.

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  • Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Agricultural Workers

    Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Agricultural Workers

    Goal

    The goal of this course is to provide a basic understanding of common musculoskeletal disorders that affect agricultural workers

    Intended Audience

    The intended audience for this course is rural health professionals.

    Length

    The length for this course is approximately 60 minutes depending on the individual user. Upon completion of the course, you will get a certificate of completion from the Great Plains Center of Agricultural Health at the University of Iowa College of Public
    Health.

    Prerequisite Requirement

    NA, however, it is advisable that you have some basic understanding of agricultural environment.

    Learning Objectives

    At the end of this course, you will be able to:

    • Describe common musculoskeletal disorders that affect agricultural workers.
    • Recognize hazards and work practices that increase the risk of musculoskeletal disorders.
    • Apply appropriate prevention strategies.

    Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals

    Domain 3: Communication Skills
    • 3A2. Communicates in writing and orally with linguistic and cultural proficiency (e.g., using age-appropriate materials, incorporating images).

    Before you begin, please take the pretest. The pretest score will not be counted toward your final score.

    Content

    The content for this course is about an overview of common musculoskeletal disorders as well as hazards and work practices that increase the risk of musculoskeletal disorders.

    The course includes a learning module with interactivity and scenario application activities, a list of resources, and a posttest at the end of this course. A Certificate of Completion is awarded on successful completion of this course. In order to successfully
    complete this course, you MUST score 70% or higher on the posttest. If you do not receive 70% on the posttest, you may review the material and re-take it.

    Continuing Education Credit

    This course has been approved for continuing education credit for the following professions (details available in course materials):

    • Nurse/Nurse Practitioner – ANCC contact hour(s)
    • Pharmacist/Pharmacy Technician – ACPE contact hour(s)
    • Physician – AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)
    • Other Health Care Providers – A certificate of participation stating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ the course awards will be available after successful completion of the course. (It is the responsibility of licensees to determine if this continuing education activity meets the requirements of their professional licensure board.)

    A separate registration process will be required after successful completion of the course.

    Acknowledgements

    The following organizations collaborated on the development of this course: The Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health and the Midwestern Public Health Training Center, University of Iowa College of Public Health (MPHTC–UICPH).

    This project is supported by Grant Number 5 U54 OH007548-11 from the CDC – NIOSH for the Agricultural Medicine Core Course (Diane Rohlman, PI) a project within the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health (Renee Anthony, PI). Course contents are solely
    the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or NIOSH.

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