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The 13 courses offered include:

Each course $39.00

Order 2 $69.00

Order 3 for $89

Order all 4 for $99.00

NEW! THE Science of Shut-Eye: Sleep from A to ZZZZ
(a 4 part series)

BRN 7.5 contact hours per series; 30 contact hours if all four are done

Healthful sleep has been proven to be the single most important predictive factor in longevity, more so than diet, exercise, or heredity.

Unfortunately, a good night’s sleep remains an elusive dream for many. In the United States, sleep disturbance or insomnia is the third most common patient complaint after headaches and cold symptoms. The cost of accruing sleep debt is steep resulting serious chronic illness and injury.

According to Dr. William Dement, founder of the Stanford University Sleep Research Center “Unhealthy sleep remains America’s largest, deadliest and most costly health problem. Lack of awareness about sleep deprivation is a national emergency.”

This comprehensive 4-part series covers the gamut of sleep related topics and provides valuable information to optimizing one’s sleep hygiene and health.

Part One: The Biology of Sleep

Part Two: Sleep Disorders

• Insomnia: A sleep thief
• Snoring and sleep apnea: The midnight stranglers
• Narcolepsy, sleep waking, night terrors, and other sleep disorders
• Dazed and confused: The impact of sleep deprivation in daily life

Part Three: The Good “Snooze” About Sleep

• Impact on longevity and the immune system
• The biological clock and mood
• Sweet dreams: The mechanism and their meaning
• The late night muse: Creativity, productivity, and learning

Part Four: A Prescription for Healthy Sleep

• Assessing your sleep needs
• Learning to manage common sleep crises such as jet lag, shift work, and time changes
• Guidelines and resources for seeking medical attention
• Strategies for a sleep-smart lifestyle
• Sleep camp: A three week strategy for improving your sleep hygiene and regaining your vitality

Includes the text: The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night’s Sleep by William C. Dement MD, PhD and Christopher Vaughan

$69.00

NEW! Working with You is Driving Me Crazy: Sane Solutions for Managing Difficult Personalities in the Work Place

BRN 15 contact hours     

One of the toughest parts of any job is dealing with the people around you.

If you find yourself feeling frustrated, angry, disillusioned or a bit crazed by the people you work with then your best shot at improving your sanity and work satisfaction according to psychotherapist Katherine Crowley and business consultant Kathy Elster is by mastering your state of mind.

This course will help you uncover the common emotional traps managers and employees fall into and give you tools to get out.

Highlights:

• How to take charge of your reactions and unhook from emotionally charged situations.
• Protect your work territory from “boundary busters”
• The seven stages of a fatal attraction at work and how to escape the toxic effects
• Managing Up: Five pivotal practices of managing the people above you
• Dealing with difficult and extreme bosses
• Managing down: Four key principles for business parenting
• How to assess the corporate culture of your workplace and determine if it is the best fit for you

Includes the text: Working with You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster

$99.00

The Unfocused Mind:
Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adults

30 Contact Hours

Over the past decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the diagnosis and treatment research regarding Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), also referred to as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

This course explores the myths associated with ADD/ADHD, discusses current research, findings, diagnosis, and treatment options.

Highlights:

• Common misconceptions about focus, attention, and will power
• How ADD/ADHD syndrome affects executive functioning
• Development challenges during childhood, adolescent, and adulthood
• Associated ADD/ADHD disorders
• Medication and other treatment options

Includes the text: Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults by Thomas E. Brown, PhD

 $99.00

The Placebo Effect: Exploring the Science of the Mind/Body Connection 

30 Contact Hours

Since ancient times, humans have believed emotions and health were connected.

Research in the emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology has shown there is an inextricable chemical communication link between the mind-brain and health.

This course explores the interrelationships of the central nervous, neuroendocrine, and immune systems and how they, in turn, relate to the emotions’ and health.

Highlights:

• The biological origins of emotions and their impact on the immune system
• How the central nervous system and immune system communicate
• The power of belief and healing
• The influence social relationships have on health and well being

Includes the text: The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions by Esther M. Steinberg, MD

 $99.00

The Parent Trap: How to Form a Caring Partnership with an Aging Parent Without Becoming Their Parent

30 Contact Hours

25% of American Families are dealing with elder/parent care issues. It can be especially challenging when the parent is still competent and rational, but is being unreasonable around a particular issue.

For example a parent who:

• Refuses to stop driving
• Skimps unnecessarily on expenses
• Refuses to go to a doctor or ignores the doctor’s advice
• Antagonizes the home health aide

This course addresses these issues and more.

Highlights:

• How to talk to aging parents and have productive conversations
• How to break on impasse and achieve consensus
• How to S.U.R.V.I.V.E caring for an aging parent and stay sane
• How to solve problems that are common “crazy makers” using a simple,
  6-step model

Includes the text:  Are Your Parents Driving You Crazy?: Getting to Yes with Competent Aging Parents by Joseph A. Ilardo, PhD, LCSW and Carole R. Rothman, PhD

Each course  $49.00
Order 2 $79.00 Order all 3 $99.00

Menopause: The Mid-Life Metamorphosis (Three Part Series)

10 contact hours per series; 30 if all three are done

Menopause doesn’t have to be the dreaded curse of aging characterized by drenching hot flashes and wild mood swings.

According to best selling author Dr. Christiane Northrup, the “change” is not simply a collection of physical symptoms to be “fixed” bit a mind-body revolution that brings the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence.

This comprehensive three-part series covers the spectrum of health issues relevant to over 42 million American women currently in their midlife years.

Part One

• Menopause as a wake up call- recognizing and heeding its message
• The multiple roles of reproductive hormones
• A menopausal symptom time line
• Psychosocial issues woman often encounter at mid-life
• Hormone replacement therapy options

Part Two

• Five steps to midlife weight control- how to rebalance metabolism shifts and prevent middle-age spread
• A hormone balancing food plan
• Helpful food and herbal supplements
• Creating pelvic health and power
• Sex and menopause - myths and realities

Part Three

• Nurturing the Brain: sleep, depression, and memory
• Cultivating timeless beauty
• Breast health
• How to listen to and love the mid-life heart

Includes the text: The Wisdom of Menopause by Christiane Northrup M.D.

 $99.00

Follow the Leaders: The Habits of High Performance

30 Contact Hours

 According to Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, true success is a balance of personal and professional effectiveness.  In his research Dr. Covey noted that many highly successful people seem to have naturally developed similar habits or behaviors.

This program focuses on how perceptions and assumptions can hinder success and outlines a step-by-step approach for developing greater personal and professional effectiveness.

Highlights:

• How to develop one’s “proactive capacity” to get things done even under extraordinary circumstances
• The value of creating a personal mission statement to set and achieve goals
• How to organize and execute around priorities
• The five dimensions of a “Win/Win” paradigm of leadership
• Build skills of empathetic listening that inspires openness and trust
• Principles of cooperative creativity and value differences
• Four aspects of self-renewal essential to preserving and enhancing effectiveness 

Includes the text: 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D.

$ 99.00

No Time to Live:  Time Management Strategies for the Busy Professional

30 Contact Hours

Is your “To do” list doing you in? Does your workload feel insurmountable? Are you working longer hours at the expense of your personal life? According to the Wall Street Journal, the average U.S. executive wastes one hour per day searching for missing information in messy desks and files. Nearly half of all employees polled by LifeCare said time management was the number one source of stress in their life.  This program offers practical solutions for improving productivity and achieving a fulfilling balance between your personal and professional life.

Highlights:

• Finding and maintaining the work/life balance- the “PEP” prescription
• Take ownership of your career by developing an entrepreneurial mindset
• How to prioritize the most important tasks and handle conflicting priorities
• Techniques to boost your productivity and increase your value
• Self-defense moves for common distractions
• Organizing solutions to you can find what you need when you need it
• How to break the habit of total self-reliance and master delegation
• Improve your interpersonal relationships

Includes the text: Never Check Your Email in the Morning by Julie Morgenstern

$ 99.00

Leadership: An Inside Job

30 Contact Hours

According to best-selling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell, lead­ership is not an exclusive club for those who were “born with it”. Leadership is developed not discovered. This program will help you identify and develop your leadership skills. 

Highlights:

• Learn the difference between a manager and leader.
• The difference levels of leadership and the quickest way to gain it.
• Your most important leadership assets
• How to create positive chance and why people resist it.
• The “seven deadly sins" of leadership
• Principles of people development

Includes the text: Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell

$99.00

The Answer is No: Assertive Management

30 Contact Hours

Effective communication is a fundamental part of good management. The ability to be assertive is an essential skill to for a healthcare manager or executive to acquire and master. 

This program takes the basic principles of assertiveness and applies them to situations and challenges managers routinely face.

Highlights:

• The fundamentals of managerial assertiveness
• The key to getting employees to do what you want them to do
• Implementing unpopular policy changes
• Hiring and firing assertively
• Handling criticism
• Dealing with manipulative staff or colleagues
• Changing chronic negative behavior

Includes the text:  When I Say No, I Feel Guilty Volume II for Managers and Executives by Manuel J. Smith PhD

$99.00

The Problem of Pleasing: Understanding the People Pleasing Syndrome

30 Contact Hours

“People pleasing” is a serious psychological problem that is prevalent among healthcare providers.  The need to please others and addiction to their ap­proval can impact an individual’s health, relationships, and effectiveness in their personal and professional life.

Highlights

• Different types of people pleasers
• The mindsets, habits and feelings that are associated with this syndrome
• The high price of being too nice
• Skills and exercises to break the cycle of people pleasing

Includes the text: The Disease to Please by Harriet B. Braiker, PhD

$99.00

I’m Having a Senior Moment: The Aging Brain and Memory

30 Contact Hours

As we grow older, we experience some decline in memory function but what degree of forgetfulness is part of the normal aging process?

Recent advances in research have given scientists a better understanding of the changes that occur in an aging brain and the hope that these discoveries will lead to better treatments, cures, and prevention of memory loss in the decades ahead.

Highlights:

• How the memory works and changes that can be expected with aging
• Alzheimer’s disease: symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
• Risk factors for memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease
• Recent discoveries in the field of memory research
• How to protect the brain against memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease

Includes the text The Memory Cure: How to Protect Your Brain Against Mem­ory Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease by Dr. Majid Fotuhi, MD, PhD

$99.00

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Teaching and Were Never Taught

30 Contact Hours

Patient and family education is part of the essence of nursing. Yet lack of time and resources often makes it a challenge to maintain patient and family teaching as a priority. 

Learning difficulties due to cognitive deficits, dis­abilities, or language barriers, can be frustrating for both the student and the teacher.

Learn how to overcome your specific teaching challenges, increase your effectiveness as an educator, and provide high quality patient and fam­ily education.

Highlights:

• How adult learning differs from children
• Individualizing instruction to meet a patient’s needs
• The do’s and don’ts of teaching with written materials
• Teaching through an interpreter
• How to enhance compliance
• How to take advantage of teachable moments
• Time saving teaching tips
• Creative ways to make your teaching interactive and fun
• Evaluating the effectiveness of your teaching

Includes the text No Time to Teach: A Nurse’s Guide to Patient and Family Education by Fran London, RN, MS

To order your home study, use the registration form on page 16 of the linked version of the  Summer catalog. Certificates are mailed promptly after your home study post-test is returned.