Upcoming Medical Conferences in Sacramento

3-Day Intensive Training: Advanced Mindfulness Certificate Course is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Apr 24 - 26, 2019 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 19 Credits. Course Description: In this comprehensive, three-day certificate course, international mindfulness teacher and best-selling author Donald Altman will share powerful clinical tools that will help you create a clear roadmap to wellness. From grounding and attention-focusing skills to metacognitive awareness, Donald will deliver detailed demonstrations and instruction on over a dozen mindfulness practices you can use to improve treatment outcomes.  Best of all, you will learn to embody mindfulness as you help your clients overcome clinical anxiety, depression, chronic pain, PTSD, addictive cravings, and stress related symptoms!  Spend three experiential days with Donald and learn to: • Alter clients’ habitual and conditioned reactions to anxiety, chronic pain, and depression with practical evidence-based mindfulness techniques • Apply mindfulness to pain and improve mental and physical functioning in your clients • Reduce anxiety by mindfully managing transitions through movement. • Creatively adapt your newfound mindfulness tools to work with a variety of client populations Donald is known for his compelling and entertaining presentations, and this 3-day workshop will get you excited about using mindfulness with your clients. Return to your practice with a wide range of tools to use in your next session!  Course Objectives: • Evaluate how understandable explanations of mindfulness’ impact on neurological processes involved in common mental health disorders can be used to promote engagement in treatment. • Explore the effect of diaphragmatic breathing on the parasympathetic nervous system and communicate how mindful breathing techniques can be incorporated into therapy. • Assess the latest research analyzing mindfulness, attention and depressive symptoms. • Connect how clinical tools based in mindfulness and grounding can be used to impact the biological stress response in clients with trauma. • Consider how treatment plans for depression can incorporate mindfulness interventions that clients can use to counter automatic patterns of thoughts. • Communicate the clinical implications of research regarding the health benefits of nature and exposure to the natural world. • Plan how mindfulness strategies focused on impacting the neural pathways associated with fear can be incorporated into treatment to help alleviate symptoms in anxious clients. • Articulate how mindfulness techniques that impact the areas of the nervous system associated with stress can be used in clinical practice. • Analyze the state of research on the use of mindfulness as an intervention for the management of chronic pain. • Scrutinize how barriers to implementing mindfulness can be overcome using practical informal techniques clients can easily and naturally incorporate into their lives. • Appraise the latest research on the efficacy of mindfulness as an approach to aid in relapse prevention for alcohol and substance use disorders. • Characterize how clinical tools that increase self-awareness can be used in therapy to help clients better manage their thoughts, emotions and behaviors. • Communicate how self-compassion and feelings of safety, trust and forgiveness impact the therapeutic process. • Analyze the latest research regarding the biochemistry of laughter and the connection between laughter and mental and physical health. • Evaluate research on gratitude, it’s impact on depressive symptoms, and how easy to implement gratitude exercises could be beneficial to clients. • Assess how mindfulness’ ability to shift awareness can be used to positively impact relationships and help clients to recognize their strengths. • Establish how mindfulness can be taught to clients as a skill they can employ to ease the anxiety associated with transitions. • Evaluate the role of compassion in treating clients suffering from high levels of shame and self-criticism.

Safe Patient Handling is organized by UC Davis Center for Professional Practice of Nursing (CPPN) and will be held on Apr 25, 2019 at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America. C.E. contact hours: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 1.0 contact hours. Attendees will not receive C.E. credit if they are more than 20 minutes late; no partial credit can be awarded. Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide staff with the skills to implement safe patient handling concepts in their clinical area. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

New Grad Nursing Orientation, Day 3 is organized by UC Davis Center for Professional Practice of Nursing (CPPN) and will be held on Apr 25, 2019 at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Course Description: The goal of nursing orientation is to ensure that orientees receive consistent information regarding policies, procedures, standards and documentation to support practice and familiarize them with the UC Davis Health vision, mission, values, goals and organizational structure. In addition, each orientee is shown how to independently access online polices, procedures and competencies. Policies covered include infection control, emergency response and the work environment. In keeping with the UC Davis Health vision, mission, values and goals, the objectives of nursing orientation are geared toward creatively using existing resources to meet the new demands of a constantly changing health-care environment. Nursing orientation provides advanced technological presentations including a learning management system for computerized examinations. An overview of the Center for Professional Practice of Nursing’s website familiarizes the orientees with nursing education, patient and employee education, health education and resources. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Reiki, Level II is organized by UC Davis Center for Professional Practice of Nursing (CPPN) and will be held on Apr 25, 2019 at UC Davis Health Facilities Support Services Building, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Target audience : This class is intended for health-care providers and employees of UC Davis Health. Parents of UC Davis Children's Hospital patients are also encouraged to attend. C.E. contact hours : Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 11.33 contact hours. Participants must attend all four days to receive C.E. credit.  Attendees must attend all 4 days to receive C.E. credit. Attendees will not receive C.E. credit if they are more than 5 minutes late on any day; no partial credit can be awarded. Course description : This workshop will demonstrate the use of reiki as a technique for relaxation, stress reduction and pain management. This type of touch therapy can be used as an adjunctive tool to alter the perception of pain. This class will include the demonstration and return demonstration of the reiki exercises and how to use reiki to improve patient comfort. Benefits include : • Reiki is a great stress reducer. • Reiki is easy to learn and easy to use. • Reiki recharges & rebalances the body’s energy. • Reiki can be used as a pain management tool. Prerequisite : Participants must have completed a Reiki, Level I class. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

14th Annual UC Davis Spine Care Conference is organized by UC Davis Health System - Continuing Medical Education and will be held from Apr 26 - 27, 2019 at Hilton Sacramento Arden West, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Accreditation: Physician Credit: The University of California, Davis, Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Nurse: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of re-licensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (report a maximum of 12.75 hours of credit and fill in “CME Category 1” for the provider number). Pain Credit: Up to 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Pain Management: California Business and Professions Code (Section 2190.5) requires physicians and surgeons to complete 12 hours of mandatory continuing education on pain management and the appropriate care of the terminally ill. Physicians licensed prior to January 2002 were to have completed this requirement by December 31, 2006. Physicians licensed on or after January 1, 2002 must complete this requirement within 4 years of their initial license or by their second renewal date, whichever comes first. Conference Highlights: • Multidisciplinary conference taught by UC Davis faculty in PM&R, Pain Management, Neurological Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery. • Hands-on training in physical therapy, acupuncture, orthotics, ergonomics and physical examinations. • Treatment options for patients with diverse spinal disorders and conditions. • Diagnose and conservatively manage cervical and lumbar pain. • Discuss pain control strategies including changes to improve quality of life. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

New Grad Nursing Orientation, Day 4 is organized by UC Davis Center for Professional Practice of Nursing (CPPN) and will be held on Apr 26, 2019 at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Course Description: The goal of nursing orientation is to ensure that orientees receive consistent information regarding policies, procedures, standards and documentation to support practice and familiarize them with the UC Davis Health vision, mission, values, goals and organizational structure. In addition, each orientee is shown how to independently access online polices, procedures and competencies. Policies covered include infection control, emergency response and the work environment. In keeping with the UC Davis Health vision, mission, values and goals, the objectives of nursing orientation are geared toward creatively using existing resources to meet the new demands of a constantly changing health-care environment. Nursing orientation provides advanced technological presentations including a learning management system for computerized examinations. An overview of the Center for Professional Practice of Nursing’s website familiarizes the orientees with nursing education, patient and employee education, health education and resources. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Mindful Self-Compassion is organized by UC Davis Center for Professional Practice of Nursing (CPPN) and will be held on Apr 26, 2019 at UC Davis Health Facilities Support Services Building, Sacramento, California, United States of America. C.E. contact hours : Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 28.0 contact hours. Attendees will not receive C.E. credit if they are more than 20 minutes late; no partial credit can be awarded. Course Description : What you practice becomes stronger! What mental states are you practicing? Do this for you, do this for your patients, do this for your family, do this to be more of who you want to be in the world. Learn how this warm-hearted connected presence with your own experience can be a powerful foundation in daily life. Further develop therapeutic interpersonal skills using Mindful Self-Compassion when working with patients. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

David Kessler On Grief and Grieving is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 29, 2019 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Target Audience • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Nurses • Case Managers • Marriage & Family Therapists • Chaplains/Clergy Hospitals • Palliative Care Services • Other Mental Health Professionals Course Description: Grief and grieving. It’s traumatic. It’s awkward. It’s painful. As professionals, we are expected to have the right words at hand, the right actions to recommend, and the right response. Most of us fail shamefully due to a lack of grief emphasis in our training. Every client we will see will experience loss in their life. Join David Kessler, international grief expert, author and practitioner and transform your practice, your life, and learn the art of caring for the grieving. You will then know the right words and actions to truly be of help to the dying and grieving. Course Objectives: • Explore the dynamics of different types of grief and the healing processes associated with each. • Specify age appropriate grieving milestones that occur across the lifespan. • Articulate the somatic response to grief and identify how to manage residual grief in the body. • Consider why children are often the “forgotten grievers” and identify strategies for helping this population. • Analyze the efficacy of positive psychology interventions in treating grief. • Ascertain the relationship between traumatic events and grief as it relates to the healing process. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available. 

Safe Patient Handling is organized by UC Davis Center for Professional Practice of Nursing (CPPN) and will be held on Apr 30, 2019 at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America. C.E. contact hours: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 1.0 contact hours. Attendees will not receive C.E. credit if they are more than 20 minutes late; no partial credit can be awarded. Course Description : The goal of this course is to provide staff with the skills to implement safe patient handling concepts in their clinical area. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

ELNEC End-of-Life Training for Critical Care Staff is organized by UC Davis Center for Professional Practice of Nursing (CPPN) and will be held from May 01 - 02, 2019 at UC Davis MIND Institute, Sacramento, California, United States of America. C.E. contact hours : Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 13.5 contact hours.  The University of California, Davis Medical Center is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.  Attendees will not receive C.E. credit if they are more than 20 minutes late; no partial credit can be awarded. Course Description : he ELNEC (End-of-Life) for Critical Care course was designed especially for critical care nurses, but is open to all inter-disciplinary health-care professionals involved with care at end-of-life. The emphasis on nursing is based on the fact that nurses spend more time with patients and families facing the end-of-life than any other health-care discipline. Critical care nurses have the potential to greatly reduce the burden and distress of those facing life's end and the ability to offer support for the many physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients and their families. Critical care nurses and other health-care professionals with training in end-of-life/palliative care, individually and collectively, have the unique opportunity to significantly impact the quality of care for terminally ill patients. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.