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BIOLOGIX SOLUTIONS LLC

Sharps injuries pose a significant risk to healthcare professionals, exposing them to bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, Hepatitis B (HBV), and Hepatitis C (HCV). This comprehensive training course equips healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent sharps injuries, comply with regulatory standards, and respond effectively to exposure incidents. Participants will explore OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030) and CDC best practices for safe handling, disposal, and post-exposure management. The course covers engineering controls, work practice strategies, and proper sharps disposal methods to minimize risks in various healthcare settings. By the end of this course, learners will be able to implement evidence-based sharps safety protocols to protect themselves, their colleagues, and their patients.

Agents of Change

Free continuing education course on AI for mental health professionals, offering 3 ethics CEs

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course examines the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) Code of Ethics which was approved in May of 2023 and revised in August of 2023. The NBCC Code of Ethics establishes ethical standards for Counselors and is a resource for ethical decision-making and practice. The NBCC Code of Ethics offers 114 ethical standards in the areas of professional responsibilities; counseling relationships; supervision and consultation; testing, appraisal, and research; counselor education; and telemental health, social media, and technology.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course explores the ethical challenges experienced by social workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and offers a framework for understanding ethics during a time of crisis. Four broad responses to ethical challenges were identified and include ethical confusion, ethical distress, ethical creativity, and ethical learning.

Free State Social Work

This course offers an ethical analysis of the mitigation measures, restrictions, and social isolation of long term care residents during the Covid-19 pandemic. The course explores concepts of harm, proportionality, reciprocity, and transparency. Ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, maleficence, and justice are examined.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course highlights the political action and leadership of early African American social workers and their work challenging discrimination and injustice while advocating for systemic change. It uses Lane and Pritzker's five domains of political social work practice as a framework and includes the NASW 2021 Blueprint of Federal and Social Policy Priorities.

Free State Social Work

This course explores key stages of the evolution of social work ethics from the morality period to the digital period. Practical tools for managing ethics challenges in social work organizations are provided; strategies include informal ethics conversations, formal ethics consultations, agency-based ethics committees, and ethics rounds.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course explores the systemic problems that contribute to stress, trauma, and burnout in the social work profession, while examining the recent addition of self-care as an ethical mandate to the revised 2021 NASW Code of Ethics. The course highlights mezzo and macro factors affecting the profession that include workforce and employment conditions such as stressful working conditions, low pay, inadequate support, heavy workloads, and poor staffing. Instead of viewing self-care as a personal responsibility of social workers, the course reframes self-care as a social justice issue.

Free State Social Work

This course uses communication theory to explore the benefits and challenges of communication technology on the social worker-client relationship. The course examines the importance of resolving ethical issues related to ICT use, digital literacy, and social work practice. The following ethical issues are highlighted: boundaries, client well-being, professional competence, privacy, confidentiality, cultural competence, and social justice.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course explores social work boundary issues and ethical conflicts that result from a growing use of technology and remote contact with clients. The course examines three forms of boundary challenges encountered by social workers in the digital age: ethical judgments, ethical mistakes, and ethical misconduct.

Free State Social Work

This course explores ethical implications and challenges related to private equity investment in the field of social services. The course offers an overview of private equity in social services and uses the NASW Code of Ethics as a guide to address potential concerns. Ethical standards related to informed consent, conflicts of interest, professional integrity, administration and commitments to employers, dishonesty, fraud, and deception, and social injustice, anti-racism, and social and political action are highlighted.

Free State Social Work

This course explores the history of artificial intelligence, the use of algorithms, and the influence of algorithms on areas of healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice. The course highlights concerns related to the implementation of AI that include injustices to marginalized groups. The course outlines four ways for social workers to advocate for digital inclusion and social justice: resist, regulate, reimagine, and reinforce.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

Explores ethical and legal considerations for AI development in healthcare, examining principles of privacy, confidentiality, autonomy, informed consent, beneficence, and nonmaleficence, with emphasis on bias, responsibility, and liability.

Free State Social Work

This course examines key ethical considerations related to the use of mental health chatbots and highlights a 5-principle ethical framework that includes the principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, respect for autonomy, justice, and explicability.

Free State Social Work

This course explores the ethical challenges of conversational AI in mental health care. The course highlights a literature review and identifies 10 main ethical themes: safety and harm; explicability, transparency, and trust; responsibility and accountability; empathy and humanness; justice; anthropomorphization and deception; autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; and effectiveness. A bioethical framework is utilized to discuss findings.

Free State Social Work

This thought-provoking course explores the relationship between social work and the child welfare system and critiques the federal Title IV-E training program and the ethical conflicts involved in training MSW students to regulate families. The course examines the forces of racism, classism, misogyny, and injustice within the child welfare system.

Zur Institute