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  • Promoting Self-Care for Healthcare Professionals

    An evidenced based program designed to inspire those who care for others to also take care of themselves. This program will explore the need for self-care and the research supporting it.

    The presenters will focus on behaviors that can improve the mental and physical health of both the caregiver and their clients. Join us in exploring simple lifestyle changes and resources that can be shared with your friends and co-workers to improve workplace wellness.

    Topics Include

    • The evidence for self-care: Take good care of your-self: understanding the evidence and applying it to your life.
    • Mindful meditation: A guided practice and techniques to reduce stress, enhance focus and well-being. Perfect for people who think they can’t meditate.
    • Tai Chi: Explore the numerous benefits and take part in a brief introduction to the movements.
    • Self-defense basics: Develop a mindful approach and awareness to your surroundings and observe simple strategies that can be applied in any setting.

    Wear comfortable clothes and shoes! Participants will take part in a mindful meditation and participate in the gentle practice of Tai Chi. Self-defense techniques will be demonstrated.

    Presenters

    • Cynthia O’Connell is a recently retired Specialist Professor from the Educational Counseling graduate program at MU. She received her training in teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Integrative Medicine Center in Philadelphia.
    • Andrea Garcia, OTD, MSW, OTR/L is a specialist professor and doctoral capstone coordinator for Monmouth University’s occupational therapy program. She specializes in upper extremity rehabilitation. Dr. Garcia is a master teacher in reiki.
    • Shoshanna Katzman, M.S, L.Ac is the founder of Red Bank Acupuncture & Wellness Center. She has been practicing Tai Chi and Qigong since 1974. She also specializes in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
    • Brianna Wesley, RN, B.S. is a registered nurse in the emergency department and current graduate student at Monmouth University. She has a fourth degree black belt in Tae Kwan Do Chung Do Kwan and has been practicing for 22 years.

    Successful Completion: Participants will attend 95% of the program, and complete an online evaluation to receive contact hours. None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no commercial support for this activity.

    For additional questions, email bpaskewi@monmouth.edu

    The Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies at Monmouth University is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation Provider Number: P242-10/21-24

  • Age-Friendly Principles of Older Adult Care: The 4Ms

    Hosted by: The Center for Professional Development in Nursing and Health

    Fee: $20 MU Alumni and Preceptors $15, MU Students may register free of charge.

    1.5 Nursing Continuing Professional Development contact hours will be provided This program will provide information about the Age-Friendly Health System movement’s 4Ms Framework: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility. Resources will be provided with links to evidence-based guidelines and tools for use in providing age-friendly care to older adults, caregivers, and families.

    Key topic areas include: Introduction to Age-Friendly Health Systems and the 4Ms Framework

    • What Matters: Align care with the older adult’s health outcome goals
    • Medication: Ensure medications do not interfere with What Matters, Mobility, or Mentation
    • Mentation: Prevent, identify, treat, and manage dementia, delirium, and depression
    • Mobility: Ensure older adults move safely every day to maintain function and do What Matters

    Speaker: Sherry Greenberg, PHD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN Professor, Hess Endowed Chair in Nursing Education Monmouth University, The Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies.

    Successful Completion: Participants will attend 95% of the program, and complete an online evaluation to receive contact hours. Planners, content experts and speakers have declared no conflict of interest. There is no commercial support for this activity.

    Register online! https://www.monmouth.edu/school-of-nursing-health/continuing-education-programs/

    Pre-registration is required so please register early! Visit our website to view registration and refund policies. For additional questions, email bpaskewi@monmouth.edu

    The Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies at Monmouth University is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation Provider Number: P242-10/21-24

  • Supporting Systems and Communities in Achieving Racial Equality: A Groundwater Analysis – presented by Joyce James

    Voices for Change: Voting, Advocacy, and Action

    In this presentation, Ms. James will share her journey in developing the Texas Model for addressing Disproportionality and Disparities and the Groundwater Analysis for Addressing Racial Inequities© as the foundation for creating antiracist organizational cultures for undoing institutional and structural racism and improving outcomes for all populations. Participants will gain an increased understanding of the importance of cross systems collaborations and building partnerships with poor communities of color to remove the barriers that contribute to racial inequities. The session will include discussion of the pitfalls of well-meaning and well-intentioned leaders, who in isolation of an analysis of institutional and structural racism, and a racial equity lens, continue to unconsciously contribute to sustaining and often perpetuating racial inequities in the design and delivery of programs and services.

  • The Strengths of Black Families, presented by Denise McLane-Davison

    Voices for Change: Voting, Advocacy, and Action

    The political era of the Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Gay Rights, and The Black Power Movement demanded the inclusion of rigorous research that centered racial and gender identity as significant narratives. The emergence of Black Studies and Women’s Studies, along with student-led and national organizations incorporating the same identity politics also demanded inclusion in intellectual landscapes. During this era Black social scientists blanketed the scholarship, theory, and treatment research that anchored African cultural values, traditions, knowledge, and generational behaviors as disruptive characteristics of pathologized Black family rhetoric. Collectively, cultural scholarship named the impact of adapting Black life to oppression and anti-Blackness policy. They declared the Black family as the fundamental source of strength of the Black community and as the defense for Black life from external threats. This session provides a historical and contemporary alignment on the Black strength perspective through racial pride, resistance, and resilience.

  • Commencement – Bachelor candidates in the School of Nursing and Health Studies and the School of Social Work

  • Commencement – Master and Doctoral candidates in the School of Nursing & Health Studies, the School of Social Work and the School of Science

  • Student Scholarship Week

    Monmouth University’s 6th annual Student Scholarship Week: Celebrating the Research, Creative, and Service Accomplishments of MU Students will take place virtually April 19-23, 2021. Student Scholarship Week is a weeklong conference that showcases and celebrates students’ academic work inside and outside of the classroom, as well as highlights faculty-student collaboration, across the University. This includes highlighting students’ scholarly contributions in research, writing, service learning, clinical experiences (i.e. study abroad, internships), musical and theater productions, art exhibits, student development and leadership, student clubs, etc.

    This year, Student Scholarship Week will be held virtually for the safety of our students and staff. Each day of the week will feature one theme with a variety of student projects showcased through a mix of live Zoom sessions and asynchronous posters and videos.

    Please visit the website for a list of the daily live sessions and to view the students’ posters and videos.

  • Introduction to Legal Nurse Consulting

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    The Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies is pleased to invite you to attend this program. Each semester we will present a series of professional development classes that feature our own Faculty and Alumni. Join us virtually to explore the field of legal nurse consulting with Tristan Ashly Wristen, graduate of the Forensic Nursing MSN program at Monmouth University, 2018.

    Desired Learning Outcome

    At the conclusion of the program participants will self-report knowledge gain on the role and responsibilities of the legal nurse consultant.

    This class will discuss the evolution of legal nurse consulting and will focus on the current state of the field. The lecture includes interactive case studies based on actual real-life circumstances.

    Key Topic Areas Include:

    • History and evolution of the field of legal nurse consulting
    • The basics of litigation and the legal system
    • Roles of the legal nurse consultant
    • Types of cases that benefit from legal nurse consultant involvement
    • How to develop a successful legal nurse consultant career

    Registration Cost
    Price ranges between $25.00 and $30.00 depending on the option selected at registration.

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  • Nurse Practitioner Skills Boot Camp

    Fee: $225/$200 MU Students/Alumni
    Instructional materials, continental breakfast and lunch are included in the program fee.

    8 contact hours for nurses will be provided. All participants receive a “Boot Camp” T-Shirt!

    Are you looking to enhance your advanced practice skills? Join us for an immersion program for Nurse Practitioners providing specialized training in key areas. The hands-on experience will be facilitated by content experts who will share knowledge, tips and techniques for practice.

    All participants will begin the program with Clinical Decision Making: Interpreting & Integrating Diagnostics (2 hour module) and select 2 from the following modules:

    • Radiographic Interpretation of Chest and Musculoskeletal System
    • Suturing and Wound Closure
    • Care of Common Orthopedic Injuries & Splinting Basics

    For more information, visit the School of Nursing and Health Studies Continuing Education site or contact Barbara Paskewich at bpaskewi@monmouth.edu  or 732-571-3694.

  • Writing Research Papers/APA Style

    Fee: $45/$35 for MU Students

    You have the knowledge and the words, but do you have trouble with American Psychological Association (APA) format, citation, or writing style? This program is designed to provide an introduction to writing research papers in APA Style.

    The instructor will take you through seven steps that will strengthen your APA-Style research writing. From the title page to references and tables, tips and techniques for academic writing will be explored.

    The American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual is required for this class. Participants should bring their own (6th edition) manual, copies are also available for purchase at the MU bookstore.

    Presenter: Patricia Sciscione PhD, RN, NJ- CSN – Assistant Professor (Marjorie K Unterberg School of Nursing Health Studies)

    For more information, visit the School of Nursing and Health Studies Continuing Education site or contact Barbara Paskewich at bpaskewi@monmouth.edu  or 732-571-3694.