CE-BHEA-3002 - Patient Empowerment to Activation: Shared Clinical Decision-Making

Course Description

While healthcare professionals are experts in medical and behavioral care, the patient is ultimately the decision-maker on their long-term goals. Initial treatment is only as effective and impactful as the patient’s willingness to maintain that treatment, and many times, it’s necessary to involve professionals for maintenance and future strategies. Whether you’re a visiting nurse, a facilitator for hospice care, or working nights at a nursing home, your patients need to feel empowered to make the decisions that impact the rest of their lives.

Is This Course For You?

This course is designed for practicing clinical health professionals in non-behavioral health roles whether you’re in a role that requires no prior behavioral health training such as nurses, physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, and medical technicians, or a role that requires some behavioral health training such as medical doctors, peer advocates, and helpline/crisis workers. If you want to learn more about empowering your patients to make informed medical decisions during and after their time spent with you, this course is for you.

What You’ll Learn

Through this course, you’ll learn how to develop care goals with patients and assist with activation and support towards achievement. Further, you’ll examine case studies and participate in interactive skills demonstrations, which will provide training in agile management that you’ll need to use when barriers to success appear. Through complex case management and clinical skills development, you’ll become an asset to your organizations through patient relationship building and familiarity with high-functioning continuous care models.

How You’ll Learn

??This six week intensive course includes 15 total hours of instructional time broken into six class modules. This instructional time is through pre-recorded interactive video lectures, so you can choose the most convenient times out of your schedule to do your coursework. These interactive lectures include video vignettes, interactive quizzes, and more to keep you engaged during each module so you can take in the key information that you need to build your patient relationships and help those you’re caring for make the right decisions for themselves.

Skills You Walk Away With

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

• Formulate long-term plans for patient empowerment around individual goals.
• Evaluate patient feedback for continuous improvement efforts.
• Practice value-shared decision making in healthcare management.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Mastery Certificate: Behavioral Health Foundations : Elective Courses