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. |