Florida Mental Health CE Requirements for License Renewal One

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CE Broker #: 10-437334
CE Credits: 5.00

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CE Broker #: 10-437338
CE Credits: 5.00

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Combination Course Overview:

This is a board approved combination course meeting Florida license renewal CE requirements for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. This version contains Behavioral Health Practice Errors and Ethics and Boundary Issues: Ethical Decision Making.

Note: Florida psychologists need to take combination courses with psychology in the title. If you have purchased this course in error contact us and we will switch out this course for the one your board approves for license renewal.

CE Broker #: 10-437338, 10-437334

Behavioral Health Practice Errors Description:

Florida Board approved combination course to meet required curriculum for Florida licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors. This 2-hour medical errors class provides information on root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention and patient safety in behavioral healthcare practice. The offering will include factors that contribute to the occurrence of behavioral healthcare practice errors, how to recognize at-risk situations, protocol to improve patient outcome, reporting responsibilities, and patient safety. Patient rights and other public education concerns will be addressed.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to list the most common practice errors/situations in behavioral healthcare.

2. Participants will be able to discuss the causes for these practice errors.

3. Participants will be able to identify safeguards for avoiding medication errors with patients on psychotropic medications.

4. Participants will be able to implement patient education and safety planning.

5. Participants will be able to describe reporting and documentation responsibilities in the event of practice errors.

CE Credits: 2

Agenda:

Hour One: Overview of purpose, Root-cause analysis: Common errors and causes/situations

Hour Two: Using Patient Outcome Information to Improve Patient Care, Patient Education and Safety Planning, Reporting and Documentation

Methods: Study guide, Pre and Post-test, Q and A by email.

Purpose: To provide pratitioners information about reducing practice errors.

Ethics and Boundary Issues: Ethical Decision Making Description:

The course meets the Florida CE Requirements for Ethics. The purpose of this study is to acquaint practitioners with decision-making steps for evaluating ethical dilemmas. The course discusses the principles underlying all codes of ethical conduct in the behavioral health professions. Distinctions are made between terms as they pertain to ethics. Several models for making decisions in ethical dilemmas are presented and discussed.

The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling require a 3 CE Credit continuing education course on topics concerning ethics and boundary issues. This course is the first of several that will be available through Program Services Continuing Education.

Note: Florida Psychologists need to order the version of this course with psychology in the title. (Florida Ethics and Statutes Affecting the Practice of Psychology Module One: Ethical Decision Making).

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to define ethics.

2. Participants will be able to identify five sources of ethical standards.

3. Participants will be able to identify four areas of common unethical behavior.

4. Participants will be able to discuss ten barriers to ethical decision making.

5. Participants will be able to describe and utilize five decision making models for resolving ethical dilemmas.

6. Participants will be able to list nine common excuses for unethical behavior.

CE Credits: 3

Agenda:

Hour One: Definitions and principles informing counseling ethics,Five sources of ethical standards, Four areas of common unethical behavior.

Hour Two: Ten barriers to ethical decision making, Decision making models.

Hour Three: Decision making models, Excuses for unethical behavior.

Methods: Study guide, pre and posttest, and evaluation, Q & A by e-mail.

Purpose: To provide licensed professionals with decision making models for use in resolving ethical dilemmas.