Session Title: Substance Use Disorders (SUD)

Presentation Date: October 9, 2024

Presented By:

• Janine Lehman, RN, RAC-CT, CLNC

Course Description:   After having been long stigmatized as an “addiction” or as “substance abuse”, Substance Use Disorders are now recognized and identified as a collection of cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms, wherein an individual persists in using a substance despite experiencing significant problems and adverse consequences.  This session will review the characteristics of this disease, along with identifying who is at risk, what substances are included, intervention strategies, and how it impacts Long Term Care.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize the characteristics and symptoms of Substance Use Disorders.
2. Identify who is at risk for Substance Use Disorders.
3. Become familiar with intervention strategies for Substance Use Disorders

CE's are available for those that listen to the sessions LIVE.

Continuing Education Information

Nurses:  The Kansas Healthcare Association is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. Each offering is approved for 1.0 contact hour applicable for RN and LPN relicensure (KSBN LT0030-0338)

Administrators:  This course offering is approved for 1.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for the Kansas licensed adult care home administrators by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services.  KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number:  LTS-A0001.

Operators:  This course offering is approved for 1.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for the Kansas licensed operators in the core area of Resident Care by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services.  KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number:  LTS-A0001.

Social Workers: This course is approved for 1.0 hour of continuing education hour for each webinar for Kansas licensed Social Workers by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board.  Approval number: 17-006.

Dietitians: This course is approved for up to 1.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for Kansas Licensed Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADs Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship Number: LTS-A0002.

1.0 hours of CE's will be provided for each webinar in the series that you attend. CE's will be provided to those that complete a registration and the follow up attendance verification form. Webinar log in information and dial in information will be provided prior to the webinar.