Southern NH Area Health Education Center

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1 Southern NH Area Health Education Center September 2017 Upcoming Conferences, Workshops, and Programs Conferences and Workshops Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center s Commission on Accreditation. The Southern NH Area Health Education Center, accredited by the NH Medical Society, designates live activities for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Note: Please check each individual program brochure for more information about education credits

2 October September MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Class: the Hidden Culture 19 SBIRT In NH Medication Safety Workshop 22 CHW Professional Development- Patient Engagement Hour Health Interpretation Training Manchester 4 5 Chronic Disease Self Management Leader Training Program - Lebanon 6 Chronic Disease Self Management Leader Training Program - Lebanon Class: the Hidden Culture NE Bone Club 20 NE Bone Club UNH - HPV PAGE DOWN to see more details about these programs!

3 Patient and Family Engagement What is it? A Professional Development training for CHWs September 22, :00 am - 2:00 pm Catholic Medical Center 100 McGregor Street, Manchester, NH Agenda 9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introductions 9:15-10:45 What s Patient Engagement? 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Where can you practice it? What gets in the way? Solutions? 12:30-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:00 Tell me your story Faculty: Tanya Lord PhD, MPH Director, Patient and Family Engagement Foundation for Healthy Communities Lunch will be provided. There is no cost for this training. To Register: Go to and click on Upcoming Events. Contact Paula Smith at psmith@snhahec.org or call x 1 with questions.. Community Health Workers play a key role in working with patients and families. Patient and Family Engagement is important in the development of strong medical homes. Patient Family Engagement (PFE) is defined by the CMS national Partnership for Patients program as persons, families, their representatives, and health professionals (clinicians, staff and leaders), working in active partnership at various levels across the health care system and in collaboration with communities to improve health, health care, and health equity. ad Join in this professional development opportunity to share your knowledge and build your skills in creating more opportunities for patients and families to engage with health care systems and have their voice heard. Target Audience Community Health Workers Learning Objectives After this session, participants will be able to: 1. Define the concepts of Patient and Family Engagement at the direct care, organizational design and governance levels. 2. Understand how effective bedside engagement promotes safer care. 3. Identify barriers to better engagement and explore potential solutions and opportunities. 4. Practice storytelling as a method to share healthcare experiences.

4 64-Hour Health Interpretation Training 22 Bridge Street, 2 nd Floor Manchester, NH Tuesdays & Thursdays Training in NH October 3 December 12, 2017 Since :30 9:00 pm This is a comprehensive 64-hour program that teaches interpreters to work in health care, educational, social services and some legal fields. The curriculum includes: language access law, the role of the interpreter, the protocol of interpretation, the national code of ethics & standards of practice, memory development, basic anatomy and medical terminology, vocabulary development in both languages, impact of culture on interpretation, resources for interpreters, assisted role-plays, groundwork preparation for the national certification, and more. The cost for the class is $750. There is a partial scholarship of $300 for students who register & pay $100/fee before September 20, 2017 (total cost = $450). Registration fee, language proficiency screening, the manual and exercises/role plays are included in the cost. It is recommended that students bring to the class bilingual medical dictionary/glossary and atlas of anatomy or have a good on-line bilingual resource. Each applicant will be screened for English and target language proficiency. Attendance at all classes is mandatory in order to receive a certificate of completion. For more information, please contact Florentina Dinu at or her at fdinu@snhahec.org.

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6 The National AHEC organization and the SNH AHEC are pleased to provide you with this free continuing education opportunity to learn more about HPV vaccination safety. This presentation includes information about vaccine safety systems in the United States; HPV vaccine safety data; and safety monitoring and evaluation for the 9-valent HPV vaccine. Click here to register. Jointly provided by Postgraduate institute for Medicine and the National AHEC organization. Funding for this self-study guide was made possible by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Grant No. NH231P to the National AHEC Organization. The views expressed in this written document do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government.

7 october 19 & 20, 2017 portsmouth harbor events, 100 deer st., portsmouth, nh Lawrence Raisz Memorial New England Bone Club 2017 OCTOBER 19 & 20 Click here for the brochure. Go to Upcoming Events to register. a program of maine medical center research institute southern nh area health education center exeter hospital northern ne clinical translational research

8 October 25 th :30pm to 8:00pm Elliott Alumni Center Registration information to come soon. Nurses Southern NH AHEC is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the Northeast Multistate Division (NE-MSD), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center s Commission on Accreditation 2.0 contact hours. Activity Number: 1134 Physicians The Southern NH Area Health Education Center, accredited by the NH Medical Society, designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

9 SAVE THE DATE! Join the Granite State Diabetes Educators for 2 Presentations: Diabetes on a Shoestring & Diabetes and the Homeless When: Wednesday, November 8, :00 pm to 8:00 pm Where: Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Dover, NH More details to come!

10 Enhancing COPD Management in Primary Care Thursday, November 16 th, 2017 Manchester Country Club 180 S River Road, Bedford 6.25 CME course copd@breathenh.org SAVE THE DATE! Click here to register.

11 For leaders of organizations from health, healthcare, human, social service, people-serving, education, and non-profit organizations

12 Ethical Decisionmaking in an Integrated Behavioral Health Environment When: December 6, am to 1 pm Where: Epping Fire Department

13 Stanford s Chronic Disease Self-Management Program: Better Choices, Better Health Do you have patients with a chronic disease? Are you looking for resources to help them take better care of themselves? The NH CDSMP Network is offering Stanford s Chronic Disease Self-Management Program: Better Choices, Better Health as a resource to providers and residents of New Hampshire. The program gives patients with chronic diseases and the people who care for them an opportunity to learn how to put life back into their lives. For more information please contact Gina Savinelli at gsavinelli@snhahec.org x2 As a series of workshops: Classes are offered in community centers across NH. Upcoming trainings can be found at SNHAHEC, under the BCBH tab Lunch and Learn An introductory one-hour session can be brought to your practice by SNHAHEC to help your staff understand what can be done to help patients with chronic diseases manage their lives.

14 Carbohydrate Counting a key strategy to managing diabetes a key Want to be able to help your DM patients keep their blood glucose levels within their target range? This 45 minute narrated power point presentation, available online, provides carbohydrate counting tips you can share with patients and clients. Learning Objectives: State what carb counting is and why it is important to manage diabetes State carb targets for meals and snacks Identify resources to learn carb content of foods Explain how to calculate insulin to carb ratios Presented by Della Flanagan, RD, CDE, MEd, BC-ADM, LD Della has been a CDE since She has been the manager of the Diabetes and Nutrition Program at Concord Hospital, which sees patients of all ages and with all types of diabetes. Click here to learn more about the webinar.