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National Association of School Nurses for the Deaf Conference (July 29-31, 2024)
Program Information
The National Association of School Nurses for the Deaf Conference brings together dedicated nurses from health centers at Deaf schools across the country for three days of connection and learning. Join us in-person from July 29-31, 2024, to enhance your knowledge and skills in providing culturally sensitive and effective care for Deaf and hard of hearing school-age children.
Continuing education for the conference is made possible through Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc. (MWHS) and its Weitzman Institute, the research, education, and policy arm of MWHS. For every CME/CE-eligible session you attend and evaluate, you will receive the appropriate CME or CE credit amount. There is an opportunity to earn a maximum of 7 total CME/CE hours.
Please register only if you attended the conference.
Target Audience
This conference is for nurses from health centers at Deaf schools across the country.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Better understand Deaf culture, and incorporate that understanding into daily nursing care.
- Improve language access to Deaf patients through nurses learning ASL, and knowing when to utilize interpreters.
- Advance health literacy among Deaf patients by promoting early health education with Deaf children.
Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
Faculty and Planners
No faculty or planners indicated any relevant financial relationships.
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by National Association of School Nurses for the Deaf and Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc./Weitzman Institute. Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Additional credits are available for Physician Assistants/Associates.
By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).
Please note that continuing education credit requirements differ by state, jurisdiction, and licensing agency. It is your responsibility to confirm if your licensing/credentialing agency will accept the credits offered by this activity.
Available Credit
- 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
- 7.00 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 7.00 Participation Hour(s)You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
Registration Instructions
- Select the Register button to register for all conference sessions, regardless of your attendance.
- Select the presentations you attended. Within each activity, select the Continue tab to complete session evaluations and claim your credits.
- Once you have attended all sessions in which you intend to participate and completed the session evaluations:
- You can claim credit commensurate with your total attendance for the conference as a whole.
- You will then be able to download a certificate appropriate to your credentials.
Required Hardware/Software
Completing session evaluations and claiming credits for this conference requires use of a device connected to the Internet, such as a computer tablet or mobile device.