CDC Learning Connection: June's Featured Courses

[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]

Opioid, HIV, Epidemiology, & Infection Prevention Trainings

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. CDC Learning Connection Connect. Learn. Improve health. June 2019                                                                 Visit www.cdc.gov/learning/ CDC is switching to a new email platform to better serve our subscribers. Please take 30 seconds to resubscribe to ensure that you continue receiving the CDC Learning Connection e-newsletter. The CDC Learning Connection promotes quality learning opportunities from CDC, other federal agencies, and federally funded partners. Through monthly website features, social media, and this e-newsletter, we keep you informed about public health trainings, including many that offer free continuing education (CE). Hot Training Topic: Opioids Did you know a validated instrument such as the PEG Assessment Scale can help you quickly assess and monitor patients with chronic pain? Learn additional best practices with CDC's opioid prescribing training series. Earn free CE. Take opioid series HIV Prevention for Adults and Adolescents with HIV A goal of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative is to reduce new HIV infections in the United States by at least 90% in 10 years. This National HIV Testing Day (June 27), learn strategies nonclinical providers can use to help prevent HIV transmission with CDC's course. Earn free CE.   Take HIV course Cause and Effect in Epidemiology How do we know if something causes a disease or improves health? Take this training from the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice to learn seven guidelines that can help you determine causality.     Take epidemiology course Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections On any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients in the United States has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Learn how to apply infection prevention and control practices to stop the spread of HAIs with CDC's course. Earn free CE.   Take HAI course Additional Trainings & Resources • In honor of Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month, learn how blood pressure control can reduce risk of cognitive decline and dementia with CDC and the American College of Preventive Medicine's Brain Health course. Earn free CE. • This World Sickle Cell Day (June 19), watch the Reducing Complications of Therapeutic Blood Transfusion in Sickle Cell Disease video series to learn best transfusion practices for individuals with hemoglobin disorders. Earn free CE.

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