Welcome to CEU By Net - Offering Unique Online Ethics Courses To Meet Everyone's Continuing Education Needs! We offer 2-Credit, 3-Credit and 4-Credit Non-Traditional Ethic Courses Approved by NBCC, California, Texas, Alabama, Florida, and Most Other States. Watch a Preview of One of Our Slide-Show Ethics Courses.
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Check Out Our New 'QUIZ ONLY' 2-Credit Ethics Course - Advance Directives: Assisting with Plans for End of Life Care.
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Two of our courses are FAST-PACED, SLIDE SHOW STYLE COURSES - that's 3D and 4D! And Course 2D is an online 'Quiz Only' publication accessed and printed FREE of charge (you pay only if you want to take the quiz).
These NBCC-approved ethics courses are geared to the PRACTICAL day-to-day treatment activities of Social Workers, MFTs, Professional Counselors, Pastoral Counselors, Substance Abuse and Addiction Counselors (including Texas LCDCs) and more.
Our ETHICS COURSES are accepted by ALL STATES which accept NBCC approved courses and/or our State Board certifications for online CEUs, and/or our numerous State Social Worker Boards approvals. Some states which we cover include Texas, Tennessee, Maryland, Utah, Delaware, Vermont, Montana, Oregon, Oklahoma, Alabama, California, Iowa, New Mexico, Nebraska, Georgia, Arizona, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wyoming, Maine, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Louisiana, Mississippi, Minnesota, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida, Illinois, etc..
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SEE A DEMO of Ethics Courses 3D and 4D here (3- and 4-credit hours, respectively). Course 4D simply expands on 3D, with several additional ethics issues in the third lesson.
Get our 3-Credit Hour 'Ethics Course 3D' for $24.00!
Or our 4-Credit Hour 'Ethics Course 4D' (it EXPANDS on Course 3D) for $28.00.
Get Our 2-Credit Hour Ethics Course 2D for $18.00
Click Here to Go to the Catalog for Ethics 4D - Only $28 "When Insurance and State Contracts Are Paying the Bill -- The Ethics of Treatment Documentation and Related Ethical Dilemmas in Today's World."
This 4 credit hour Ethics Course - in fast paced, colorful slideshow and bullet format - is an EXPANSION of our 3-credit hour course Ethics 3D, described below.
In Course 4D - in addition to the core ethics issues covered in Course 3D - we look at such ethical questions as the insurance company's focus upon YOUR effectiveness in the treatment process - i.e., is your approach to treatment effective (or not)? Is such scrutiny legitimate and ethical, or is it an invasion of your (and your client's) privacy?
And does the new emphasis upon YOUR EFFECTIVENESS have anything to do with your OWN ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY to your clients, as required by your licensure standards?
As in Ethics Course 3D (described below), the core focus in this 4-hour course is the issue of DOCUMENTATION of treatment in the client's clinical record - when insurance or other appointed administrators are paying the bill. What to say in writing, when payment may depend upon it? What not to say? How much MUST you divulge in the treatment record to assure that your client gets the continued treatment he needs? These questions can be MAJOR ETHICAL ISSUES for most of us. Check out the description of Course 3D below, for more details. Or go directly to the catalog.
Earn a certificate for 4 (or 0.4) credit hours immediately upon completion of this module.TO PURCHASE, GO TO THE CATALOG - PRICE $28.00!
Click Here to Go to the Catalog for Ethics 3D - Only $24 - 'When Insurance and State Contracts Are Paying For Treatment -- The Ethics of Treatment Documentation in Today's World'
This 3 credit hour Ethics Course focuses upon documentation in a client's treatment record - when insurance or other appointed administrators are paying the bill - which can be a MAJOR ETHICAL ISSUE for many of us.
Health Insurance Companies and State Behavioral Health Contracts are now paying for ever-shrinking services. Their criteria for AUTHORIZATION of services are tight, and may collide with a provider’s personal beliefs and ethics about what constitutes ‘NEED for services’. Furthermore, the payer's expectations for DOCUMENTING the client’s status, needs, and how and why you provided the treatment are more specific than many providers feel is ETHICAL.
So how DO you document these things in a client's record, when you disagree with so much? The primary purpose of this course is to demonstrate to providers how they can comply with these requirements, and do it within ETHICAL BOUNDARIES -- professional AND license-related.
We provide very specific examples of how to document the client's status and needs in a way that will SUPPORT THE APPROVAL (the 'authorization') that you have been given - professionally and ethically. And we describe precisely what the insurance company or other authorizing administrator is looking for when they audit your clients' treatment records, and the ethical issues which such expectations bring for most professionals.
Earn and download and print a CE certificate for 3 (or 0.3) credit hours immediately upon completion of this module.
TO PURCHASE, TO TO THE CATALOG - PRICE $24.00!
Click Here to Go to the Catalog for Ethics 2D - Only $18 - Advance Directives: Assisting with Plans for End of Life Care.
This 2-credit hour ETHICS COURSE is a PDF document accessed FREE OF CHARGE through a publicly accessible internet link to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) website. The AHRQ includes this document in its search list of publications which deal with the ETHICS of healthcare, and state that, "This research can help providers offer end-of-life care based on preferences held by the majority of patients under similar circumstances."
This course earns 2 ETHICS CEU Credits. It is also a COUNSELING INTERVENTION course for those who work with the elderly, with cancer and AIDS patients and their families, and with others who are facing death from illness or work in life-threatening situations such as our deployed MILITARY. Clients may be residents and family members of nursing facilities, hospitals, hospice, the military, or any other situation where end of life is a potentially immediate or circumstantial issue.
If you wish to earn CE CREDIT and an instantly downloaded CE Certificate after you read this well-documented material, you may do so by paying the $18 fee and taking and passing an ONLINE QUIZ here on our website. There is no limit to the number of times you can attempt to pass the quiz. You may view and print a COPY of the online quiz now, without charge, and use it as a guide as you read the study materials. This free internet-accessible publication is funded and published by the federal AHRQ. Authors are Barbara L. Kass-Bartelmes, M.P.H., C.H.E.S., and Ronda Hughes, Ph.D.
CEU By Net has included this material in our ETHICS section because helping patients and families to make choices regarding END OF LIFE CARE is a potentially vulnerable area of PROFESSIONAL ETHICALITY. Such activity falls within the area of Professional Ethics generally referred to as CLIENT WELFARE .... including the elements of 'Acting in the Best Interest of the Client' and 'Informed Consent'. These activities also involve PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES, in terms of differentiating between our desires for a client at the end of life, and the client's own preferences.
Materials such as this study published by the AHRQ also serve to enhance and support Professional Competence and SCOPE OF PRACTICE, for those who have responsibilities involving Advance Directives. The information contained herein serves as a ‘KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORK’ for behavioral health practitioners in the area of assisting their clients/patients with ADVANCE DIRECTIVES or LIVING WILLS. Such research-based knowledge is important to ensure that we understand ETHICALLY APPROPRIATE ways to assist clients and family members or representatives with this important activity. Such knowledge also helps to protect practitioners from being the focus of disciplinary action and legal complications.
Earn and download and print a CE certificate for 2 (or 0.2) credit hours immediately upon completion of this module.
TO PURCHASE, GO TO THE CATALOG - PRICE $18.00
GOALS OF THE ETHICS COURSES
Ethics Course 2D:
1. Learn terms that should be understood related to individuals' LEGAL RIGHT to make End of Life Care Decisions.
2. Awareness of the research-verified need for more effective Advance Directives (end of life care planning), and differentiation between the categories of individuals for whom Advance Directives are an issue.
3. Understanding of the BENEFITS of addressing end of life preferences with persons who are terminally ill or are in a life threatening situation, as well as with their surrogates (family or representatives).
4. Learn a five-part, research-supported PROCESS for structuring discussions about end-of-life preferences, which inherently supports our ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY for assuring the welfare and legal rights of the client.
5. Based upon research findings, understand the FACTORS which typically affect individuals' choices about End of Life Care in various situations - thus enhancing ability to ETHICALLY GUIDE DISCUSSIONS about end of life care.
Ethics Course 3D:
1. Understand the ETHICAL AND PRACTICAL impact of CARE MANAGEMENT upon WHO gets treatment, WHAT treatments they may receive, and HOW MUCH of each treatment is allowed. 3. Learn how we can ETHICALLY accommodate these new treatment and documentation requirements, while simultaneously meeting the requirements of our Provider Agreements.
2. Identify the ETHICAL ISSUES faced by providers due to this new approach to authorization - in both the delivery of treatment services AND in the DOCUMENTATION of the treatment provided.
3. Learn how we can ETHICALLY accommodate these new treatment and documentation requirements, while simultaneously meeting the requirements of our Provider Agreements.
Ethics Course 4D:
1. Understand the ETHICAL AND PRACTICAL impact of CARE MANAGEMENT upon WHO gets treatment, WHAT treatments they may receive, and HOW MUCH of each treatment is allowed.
2. Identify the ETHICAL ISSUES faced by providers due to this new approach to authorization - in both the delivery of treatment services AND in the DOCUMENTATION of the treatment provided.
3. Learn how we can ETHICALLY accommodate these new treatment and documentation requirements, while simultaneously meeting the requirements of our Provider Agreements.
4. Identify additional ETHICAL DILEMMAS encountered in treatment of mental health and substance abuse clients, including the ethics of the Quality Management - Treatment Effectiveness scrutiny which HMOs and other such contract managers place upon the work we do. Is it ethical activity, or is it invasive?
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