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You see patients every day that have experienced psychological trauma... it is a major barrier to giving them the care they deserve.

Providing care to these patients can be time consuming and frustrating...

You sort through a laundry list of medications, diagnoses, and a complex history — all while trying to build rapport and understand your patients' immediate needs.

On top of it, you're often faced with challenging behavioral problems that can easily lead you to burn out.

Overcome these obstacles with this comprehensive trauma-informed care course — created just for healthcare professionals like you! You'll learn how to...

  •   Make sense of how trauma adds complexity to your patients' medical history
  •   Understand how trauma and co-occurring disorders impact the brain & prescribing medications
  •   Help distressed, angry, and frantic patients de-escalate so you can provide effective care
  •   Enhance communication with patients about mental health challenges, medications, & plan of care
Recapture the passion to help that brought you to the healthcare profession and deliver the highest level of care to your most vulnerable patients. Register now!

Trauma-Informed Care for Healthcare Professionals


$679.96 Value
Just $199.99 Today — Incredible Savings!
Plus, earn up to 17.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Just ask your colleagues...

"Loved it! It went beyond my expectations and gave me insight and answered other questions I have." — Eileen S., Physician Assistant
"I have already started applying new information." — Kathy L., Nurse Administrator
"Speaker was passionate, knowledgeable and gave very compassionate and practical advice for caring for elderly with dementia strategies. I will definitely use them at hospital." — Blanche S., Surgical Nurse
What You'll Learn...

After completing simple, self-paced modules, you'll deliver enhanced patient care for some of the most vulnerable patients that come through your office.
Managing Challenging Patient Behaviors: 101 De-escalation Strategies for Healthcare Professionals
Sonata Bohen, MSN, ARNP, CS, NEI Master | {193891_Sonata_BohenWithBio}

Gain practical tips and tools that you can use immediately when faced with challenging patient and family behaviors. You'll learn strategies to:

  • De-escalate acute crisis situations while maintaining patient and staff safety
  • Help patients experiencing intense withdrawals, toxicity from substance use, and other medical crises
  • Manage aggressive and violent behaviors, threats of serious harm, & other intense situations
  • Improve your standard of care with patients diagnosed with severe mental health conditions
  • Help patients that have unique risks associated with delirium, dementia, substance abuse, & developmental disabilities

Psychopharmacology of Trauma: Essential Training to Support Traumatized Patients
Stephanie L. Shafer, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC | Click here for information about Stephanie L. Shafer

Learn the ins and outs of psychopharmacology in one of the most challenging and common clinical presentations, trauma, and its comorbidities.

What You Need to Know about Mental Health Trauma
  • Types of trauma & clinical diagnoses
  • Symptoms, assessment & maladaptive coping
  • Development of trauma, influencing factors
  • Know co-occurring disorders

The Foundation for Medication: Trauma and the brain
  • Neurobiology of trauma
    • Stress and the developing brain
    • Personal narrative
    • Science of perception
    • Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD
  • Affected pathways/Brain regions affected by stress & trauma
    • Mechanisms
    • Neurotransmitters and neurotransmission as it relates to medications used in trauma & comorbid conditions
    • Serotonin, NE, DA, GABA, etc.
    • Easy-to-follow charts of pathways
    • Agonist spectrum
Medication: Adverse effects, Variations & More
  • Antidepressants — SSRIs & more
  • Anxiety medications
  • Anxiolytics
  • Mood stabilizers
  • Antipsychotics
  • Frequent manifestations of trauma and pharmacological treatments
  • Sleep & nightmare medications

Conjunctive Therapies
  • Self-care
  • Care Teams & coordination
  • Making appropriate referrals
  • Non-pharmacological therapies, modalities & more

Challenging Geriatric Behaviors
Steven Atkinson, PA-C, MS | Click here for information about Steven Atkinson

Gain valuable insights into the causes of challenging geriatric behaviors and learn innovative and practical intervention strategies to improve the care you provide to geriatric patients. You will learn strategies to manage challenging behaviors related to:

  • Dementia
  • Aggression
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Refusal of food and fluids
  • Inappropriate sexual advances
Trauma-Informed Care for Healthcare Professionals
Challenging Behaviors, Prescribing Meds & Co-Occurring Problems

$679.96 Value
Yours Today for Only $199.99 Today — Incredible Savings!

Plus, earn up to 17.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
BONUS! Full CE Session, Yours FREE!
Critical Variables When Identifying Psychological Trauma in Patients
Robert Lusk, PhD | Click here for information about Robert Lusk

Get the skills to identify key symptoms and warning signs of mental health trauma and other mental health vulnerabilities. Heighten your assessment skills for even the shortest client visits.

  • Use a trauma-sensitive framework to treat patients
  • Understand how mental health trauma impacts your patient's physical health
  • Learn how co-morbid conditions impact your patient's responsiveness to treatment
  • Know important diagnoses — what they mean and how they present in your most vulnerable patients
Frequently Asked Questions

Most healthcare professionals have limited time to see their patients. Applying a trauma-informed lens helps you to quickly identify patients with psychological trauma and other mental health problems so you can overcome barriers to treatment — and even prevent them. Psychological trauma can often lead to behavioral crises that need to be de-escalated for patient and staff safety. You'll gain training to respond effectively to substance use, self-harm, threats of violence, and other forms of aggression. You'll even learn special strategies to work with the unique concerns of geriatric patients.

The problems that arise with challenging patients don't have to be problems anymore... Don't let burnout get the best of you — Register now!

Immediately! Once you register for this self-paced course, you will have unlimited access to all the materials — including slides, handouts, worksheets, and more.
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Register for your Trauma-Informed Care for Healthcare Professionals course today — completely risk-free.

We're confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised. And maybe even more than you expected. But if you're not completely satisfied with the course, call us at 800-844-8260.
Trauma-Informed Care for Healthcare Professionals
Help Patients with Complex Mental Health Diagnoses, Medical Problems, Medications & MORE

$679.96 Value
Just $199.99 Today — Incredible Savings!
Plus, earn up to 17.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

NOTE: No additional discounts or coupons may be applied to this course.
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