Healer' Healing and Resiliency in the Aftermath of Disaster: Emergency Readiness Rounds
On Demand
Course Overview
Course Quality Rating
TBD
Course Description
This course is provided by University of Minnesota Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach and will require a secondary login and/or registration.
As first responders, medical and mental health personnel, and public health professionals serving within the acute phases of a disaster transition to longer-term phases in recovery efforts (or back into their "normal" jobs), attention to these healers' own healing and resiliency is essential to maintaining balance and mental/physical health. Dr. Mendenhall introduces key manners in which to harness our resources across individual, family, and social systems' continua, contextualizing these foci within the 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, and Minneapolis 35-W bridge disasters.
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Target Audience
This course is designed for Allied Health Professionals, Mental Health Professionals, Physicians and Other Clinicians, Emergency Responders / Receivers,General Public Health Staff, Case Manager
Learning Objectives
Having completed this course, the learner will be able to:
Identify current issues and controversies surrounding emergency readiness and response
Discuss legal and ethical implications for health professionals
Identify the various roles health professionals perform in emergency response
Contribute to the development of a disaster response plan
Council of Linkages Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (COL)/COL Tier(s)
Tier One
Community Dimensions of Practice Skills
Describes the programs and services provided by governmental and non-governmental organizations to improve the health of a community
Recognizes relationships that are affecting health in a community (e.g., relationships among health departments, hospitals, community health centers, primary care providers, schools, community-based organizations, and other types of organizations)
Supports relationships that improve health in a community
Collaborates with community partners to improve health in a community (e.g., participates in committees, shares data and information, connects people to resources)
Engages community members (e.g., focus groups, talking circles, formal meetings, key informant interviews) to improve health in a community
Provides input for developing, implementing, evaluating, and improving policies, programs, and services
Uses assets and resources (e.g., Boys & Girls Clubs, public libraries, hospitals, faith-based organizations, academic institutions, federal grants, fellowship programs) to improve health in a community
Informs the public about policies, programs, and resources that improve health in a community
Describes the importance of community-based participatory research
Professional/Disciplinary Competencies
Public Health Preparedness Capabilities
Community Preparedness
Function 1: Determine risks to the health of the jurisdiction
Function 2: Build community partnerships to support health preparedness
Function 3: Engage with community organizations to foster public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health social networks
Function 4: Coordinate training or guidance to ensure community engagement in preparedness efforts
Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competencies
Model Leadership
Manage behaviors associated with emotional responses in self and others
Format
Online/Self-study
Credit /CEU
.15 CEU or 90 minutes or 1.5 Contact Hour
Duration
1.5 hrs.
Specifications
None listed
Course Publication Date
9/5/2007
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