Programs

Gain knowledge and increase awareness and sensitivity of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Learn about how neurocognitive disorders impact behaviors related to dental care and skills that can be used to reduce care-resistant dental behaviors.

Gain knowledge about how to identify and screen for sleep apnea and sleep disordered breathing.

Learn about strategies to promote and positively impact oral health of the aging population.

Gain knowledge about the need for dentures and how to provide education on the expectations of dentures and denture care.

Gain information about how oral health impacts the patient’s quality of life. Members of the healthcare team will learn of the physical and mental impact of cancer care on oral health-related quality of life, the challenges a person faces to achieving oral health, and resources available to healthcare professionals when working with clients and their families. Jointly provided by CCRI and the Partnership to Reduce Cancer in Rhode Island.

During this enduring continuing education activity, nurses and healthcare workers will learn about advanced directives and increase their confidence in advance care planning. Advance directives and advance care planning are both important to ensure patients' healthcare wishes are honored. This educational activity will provide education about how to have conversations about advance care planning, complete advance directive forms, and provide care that aligns with the patient's wishes regarding illness and end-of-life care.

Debriefing with students following simulations and other educational activities is an important component of the learning experience. But following the COVID-19 Pandemic and a transition to virtual and remote learning, in-person debriefing has not always possible. During this virtual enduring continuing education activity, learn about the importance of post-simulation debriefing and strategies to facilitate an effective virtual debrief that encourages reflection, promotes student knowledge, and improves clinical judgment.

Learn about trauma, secondary trauma, and the difference between the two terms. Learn about how trauma effects workplace relationships and the warning signs of a mental health crisis and risks for suicide. Review concepts of how to manage secondary traumatic stress and the ABCs of self-care, and learn about the goals of de-escalation, how to identify de-escalation tools, and local and community resources.

Learn about trauma, secondary trauma, and the difference between these two terms. Learn about how trauma effects college relationships and the warning signs of a mental health crisis and risks for suicide. Review concepts of how to manage secondary traumatic stress and the ABCs of self-care, and learn about the goals of de-escalation, how to identify de-escalation tools, and local and community resources.

Learn how to provide gender-affirming care, improve the patient-provider relationship, and recognize barriers faced by the transgender community.

Learn to provide nursing and health care to patients and clients in the community through a fully online interactive continuing education simulation that takes place in the home health setting.

During this virtual, enduring continuing education activity, learn about the evidence base for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services, how autism and developmental disabilities impact both the client and their family, and steps you can take to provide an environment conducive to the safety and well-being of a client with autism and developmental disabilities.

Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.

The Virtual Dementia Tour (VDT) enables community members to step into the shoes of those with dementia and gain an understanding of their experiences in order to better care for them. To schedule a VDT for your organization, please contact [email protected].

Learn definitions and key terms related to trauma and trauma informed care, recognize warning signs of a mental health crisis and the risk factors for a mental health crisis, learn management techniques for a mental health crisis, and practice applying new knowledge to a case study.

Learn about trauma, trauma informed care, and the impact trauma has on patients and clients. Gain knowledge of the prevalence and incidence of trauma, practical applications of trauma informed care, and how to avoid re-traumatization.

During this enduring, online presentation, learn about self-care and resiliency, the role of stigma in adopting self-care strategies, benefits of self-care and the costs of avoiding self-care, various strategies of self-care, and how to develop and apply your own self-care plan.

Learn about interprofessional education and practice through this in-person Continuing Education activity, jointly provided by Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island! Learn about various systems of oppression in healthcare and how these impact the social mission in health professional education, gain knowledge of the efforts among health professional trainees to resist these structures in their efforts to reform health professional training, and gain information about how interdisciplinary collaboration can advance reforms.

Learn how CCRI is continuing to meet the needs of the healthcare workforce during COVID-19 by transforming in-person programs into interactive virtual learning experiences. Jointly Provided By: Northeast Multistate Division and CCRI

Learn about influenza and how to be better prepared to educate patients about the influenza virus and methods to protect themselves from contracting influenza.

Learn about pre-simulation briefing, the pre-simulation briefing criterion, and the impact pre-simulation briefing has on simulation-based learning experiences.