Functional Access Support Team Training

Oklahoma County Functional Access Support Team Training

Location:
Northeast Regional Health and Wellness Campus
2600 NE 63rd
Oklahoma City , OK

Date/Time:
November 18, 2014
8:30 am to 12:30 pm

Class Limit:
40 students (31 seats left)

Description:
The Human Approach to Access and Functional Needs Training is a "hands on approach" to people who have access and functional needs. This training will provide experiences with vision reduction (low-vision) and blindness (blind-folds), and other visual disabilities, walking with white-tipped canes, mental health (hearing voices), cognitive and intellectual disabilities, seniors in age, and mobility disabilities (wheel chair). The training focus is to allow each person to experience "access and functional needs" that occur in our society. With these experiences, the trainers hope that each person will be more accepting of providing assistance to people who have disabilities or mental health issues in our society.

Additional Information:

Dear Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses in Oklahoma County,

OKMRC and our public health and disability service partners are offering to OK County RNs and LPNs the first Functional Access Support Team training for the state. This training will encompass the types of disabilities you may see in a shelter setting and how best to assess and meet the needs of these clients in a holistic, comprehensive manner. You will be introduced to not only the types of disabilities you may see, but to the durable medical equipment, communication techniques and best practices for helping these clients acclimate and be comfortable in a shelter situation. Once you have completed this training, you will receive 4 hours of Cultural Competency CEUs. RNs and LPNs who complete this training may also have an opportunity in the future to participate in Funcational Access Support Teams in OK County who will deploy to activated shelters and assess the physical shelter setup and shelter residents to determine if any unmet Access and Functional Needs exist within the shelter and how to best accomodate these individuals in the shelter.

Space is limited so sign up now!!  Please see the November Calendar at www.okmrc.org.

Who: OK County MRC RNs and LPNs

When: November 18th, 2014, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm

Where:  Oklahoma City-County Health Department, Northeast Regional Health and Wellness Campus Auditorium, 2600 NE 63rd Street OKC, OK 73111.

Partners:  OKMRC; Oklahoma State Department of Health—Emergency Preparedness and Response Service; Oklahoma City-County Health Department - Emergency Preparedness, OK Developmental Disabilities Council, Oklahoma Library for the Blind and Physcially Handicapped, OK Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Progressive Independence, Department of Health and Human Services - Aging Division, Oklahoma Disability Legal Council.

The University of Oklahoma is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

For questions contact Loren Stein, OKMRC Education Coordinator at Loren-stein@ouhsc.edu