Clinical Telephone Seminars

Understanding and Addressing Non-Suicidal Self Injury in Adolescents and Young Adults ... live audio conference is intended to help youth serving, clinical, and medical professionals understand basic NSSI epidemiology, contagion factors, and intervention strategies. It will emphasize the relationship between NSSI and suicide, common treatment approaches, and basic guidelines for detecting NSSI and productively intervening. NSSI is often hidden and is a source of shame for youth who  more...

The WE in Wellness--5 Skills Every Case Manager Should Know for Effective Case Management ...ry teams within and between organizations and systems. As clinical case managers become central to a client's experience with their health, they are usually in the position to evaluate a client's level of wellness and to either directly provide education or to put together an individualized plan for attaining wellness. This live audio conference will define and describe 5 skills that are  more...

Principal Diagnosis Selection: Ensure Compliance with Official Coding Guidelines ...rrors and medical necessity errors were vested based upon clinically inaccurate and improper principal diagnosis selection. Inaccurate assignment of principal diagnosis contributes and exposes health care facilities to unnecessary compliance and financial risk. By attending and participating in this teleconference, you will gain an understanding and appreciation for textbook versus practical  more...

15- Minute Expert Adult Patient Assessments: Practical Strategies, Tips, and Updates for Health Care Professionals ...hese days and patient care is no exception. The patient's clinical acuities and complexities are increasing and the amount of available time to be hands-on with each patient seems to be decreasing. That is why every health care professional needs to be proficient in assessment skills. This teleconference, '15-Minute Expert Adult Patient Assessments: Practical Strategies, Tips and Updates for  more...

Health Information Exchange: The Impact of the Stimulus Code ...to law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act known more commonly as the Stimulus Act. The legislation for a large part included tremendous new legislation, but brings to the forefront, the first time in history, incentives for American doctors to revamp their paper charts to electronic health records format. Behind the graceful parallelism to reform  more...

Suicidology: Your Responsibilities for Protecting Your Clients and the Public ...ient safe constitutes not only the most important initial clinical objective, but is at the core of good risk management. Research continues to help clinicians predict suicidal behavior in the individual with increasing accuracy. However, there is no single test or method of assessment. Therefore, it is necessary to identify, quantify and manage those factors that constitute clinical risk.  more...

Fitness for Duty Psychological Evaluations nThis teleconference will help you make decisions when requesting and evaluating risk and fitness for duty evaluations. You'll hear a discussion of common reasons to refer an employee for a FFDE, information initially needed by the evaluating doctor and how to write appropriate questions for the psychologist or psychiatrist to answer. You will also learn about evaluating doctors' credentials,  more...