High Sierra AHEC provides accredited continuing education programs and professional support to meet the needs of health care professionals, especially those practicing in underserved areas.

• Programs are designed to enhance clinical skills and help maintain professional certifications.
• High Sierra AHEC focuses on recruitment, placement, and retention activities to address community and state health care workforce needs.
• High Sierra AHEC provide information dissemination on health care issues and participate in collaborative community-based research.

Past events offering continuing education credits:

• Nevada Statewide Evacuation Conference and Workshops
• Mens Health Conference
• Statewide Sheltering Worshops and Conference
• WIC Conference
• Oral Health Conference
• Worked collaboratively with Southern Nevada AHEC to provide the following courses to several hundred health care workers throughout the agency’s service area:
  
  • Disaster Preparedness
  • Forensic Epidemiology
  • National Incident Management System/Hospital Incident Command System
  • Basic Disaster Life Support
  • Pandemic Flu preparedness
  • Disaster Exercise Design
  • Waepons of Mass Destruction training
  • Hazardous Materials/Decontamination
  • Disaster Mental Health Screening
  • Medicare Part D

Current FY 2009-2010 Educational Opportunities:

• Basic Tobacco Intervention Skills
• Basic Tobacco Intervention Skills, Maternal and Child Health Specific
• Tobacco Dependence Treatment

Presented by:  Operation Tobacco-Free Nevada and Tobacco-Free Babies Project

Operation Tobacco-Free Nevada offers a proven approach for the integration of tobacco-related assessment and intervention into healthcare practice featuring:

A systems approach that involves the entire practice
Easy methods to follow-up and document patient progress
Free CME / CEU for staff who undergo training

Please contact High Sierra AHEC if you are interested in coordinating a FREE workshop training for your staff.