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Goal and Learning Outcomes

Working with adolescents is an exciting and challenging opportunity for nurses. An understanding of the basic concepts of adolescent health provides a framework for effective care for adolescents. This continuing education course includes a review of pubertal growth and maturation as well as normal psychosocial development of the adolescent. This framework forms the basis for understanding the importance of adolescent nutrition. The course concludes with guidelines for effective communication, with a focus on reducing risk through enhancing resiliency.
The goal of this educational program is to provide nurses in acute care with information about  adolescents.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Discuss the parameters of normal pubertal development in terms of sequence and tempo.
  • Identify the developmental tasks of adolescents.
  • Describe the effects of physical changes on psychosocial development.
  • Discuss the cognitive changes that occur during adolescence.
  • Describe the nutritional requirements to support adolescent growth.
  • Identify the principles of resiliency in promoting healthy development.
  • Describe the parameters of consent and confidentiality in adolescence.
  • Identify communication techniques that are effective with adolescents.
  • Describe how to take a social history.
  • Discuss the parameters of normal pubertal development in terms of sequence and tempo
  • Identify the developmental tasks of adolescents
  • Describe the effects of physical changes on psychosocial development
  • Discuss the cognitive changes that occur during adolescence
  • Describe the nutritional requirements to support adolescent growth
  • Identify the principles of resiliency in promoting healthy development
  • Describe the parameters of consent and confidentiality in adolescence
  • Identify communication techniques that are effective with adolescents
  • Take a social history

Course Termination Date: 01/06/24

Course Originally Released On: 05/01/19

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Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

 

CEBroker

Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and  West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses

 

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.