For Autumn 2024 Continuing Education Program registration:
Members register by signing in to the MNA App/events section or sign in to the website https://mna.yourassociation.org, and click the CE Programs/Events button.
Non Members register by contacting: Liz Chmielinski at 781-830-5719 or echmielinski@mnarn.org
Addressing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC): A Public Health Issue
Description: CSEC is an ever-changing form of interpersonal violence impacting all communities across the Commonwealth. Nurses are in a unique position to identify and support patients who are experiencing this abuse and provide interventions that can connect survivors to services for a safe exit and healing trajectory. Hear from a survivor of CSEC, turned doctoral-prepared nurse practitioner, as she discusses strategies for identification and connection to youth experiencing or at risk of commercial sexual exploitation.
Presenter: Audrey Morrissey
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Time: 5:30 – 6 p.m., Registration/Dinner; 6 – 8:15 p.m., Program
Location: MNA Headquarters; 340 Turnpike Street, Canton
Fee: Member/Associate Member, free. However, a $25 placeholder fee, which will be returned upon attendance, is required to complete registration.
Non-Members: A $95 charge is required; call for registration.
Continuing Education Credits: Will be provided
Region 1, Virtual Offering
Management of Bloodborne Pathogen (BBP) Exposures
Description: Nurses, first responders, and other healthcare workers are at risk of contracting bloodborne diseases. The three most common bloodborne pathogens workers are exposed to during their daily activities while caring for patients are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV). This program will discuss the currently known best practices to effectively care for oneself and others following a bloodborne pathogen(s) exposure.
Presenters: Ann Zaia, PhD, CNP, ScM, MSN, MHA, CHE, COHN-S, FAA
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Time: Pre-Program Login, 5 – 5:30 p.m.; Program, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: This program is a live “Virtual Continuing Educational Program” offered via Zoom.
Fee: Member/Associate Member, free. However, a $25 placeholder fee, which will be returned upon attendance, is required to complete registration. Non-Members: A $95 charge is required; call for registration.
Continuing Education Credits: Will be provided
Note: Physical therapists who attend this program will be eligible to receive continuing education hours (CEH) following successful submission of program requirements and post-program evaluation. Information provided during this program should be used within the scope of practice for physical therapists.
Region 5 Virtual Offering
Gender-Affirming Care for a New Generation
Description: There are about 1.4 million transgender people in the United States, which is about the same as the prevalence of type 1 diabetes. Rates of transgender identity are increasing among youth, with 2.9% of Massachusetts high school students describing themselves as transgender or questioning their gender. Yet, many in healthcare have little to no formal education about how to provide appropriate care to transgender identity including the social, legal, and medical steps that transgender people may take to affirm their identities and how transgender people experience the healthcare system through the lens of minority stress. We will also talk about developmental perspectives on gender identity among youth and strategies for supporting transgender and questioning youth in school and primary care settings.
Presenter: Eli Goldberg, MD
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024
Time: Pre-Program Login, 5:30 – 6 p.m.; Program, 6 – 8:15 p.m.
Location: This program is a live “Virtual Continuing Educational Program” offered via Zoom.
Fee: Member/Associate Member, free. However, a $25 placeholder fee, which will be returned upon attendance, is required to complete registration.
Non-Members: A $95 charge is required; call for registration.
Continuing Education Credits: Will be provided
Note: Physical therapists who attend this program will be eligible toreceive continuing education hours (CEH) following successful submission of program requirements and post-program evaluation. Information provided during this program should be used within the scope of practice for physical therapists.
General Virtual Offerings
The Complexities of Nurse Licensure Compact: What Nurses Need to Know
Description: One of the greatest factors that can affect a nurse’s experience — with everything from nurse-practice standards and continuing education to patient safety and work satisfaction — is the state in which they are licensed. Yet, forty-one states have joined the “Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact” (NLC), which allows nurses who are licensed in one “Compact” state to practice in any other “Compact” state without having to obtain additional licensure. During this CE program, presenters and attendees will discuss the realities of Massachusetts possibly entering the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact and what it could mean for nurses’ licenses and practice.
Presenters: Megan Collins, MS; Elizabeth Turner, Esq., RN
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Time: Pre-Program Login, 5 – 5:30 p.m.; Program, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: This program is a live “Virtual Continuing Educational Program” offered via Zoom.
Fee: Member/Associate Member, free. However, a $25 placeholder fee, which will be returned upon attendance, is required to complete registration.
Non-Members: A $95 charge is required; call for registration.
Continuing Education Credits: Will be provided
