The DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s National Emergency Communications Plan will present an October 21, 2020 webinar on Money Talks: Funding Your Emergency Communications Capabilities. The webinar will help facilities find grant guidance and opportunities, partners to help prioritize needs and coordinate applications for assistance, and diverse funding sources to sustain emergency communications. Find details and register at https://www.cisa.gov/necp-webinars.
NKF will present an October 6, 2020 webinar on Flu & COVID-19 – how to tell them apart, whether you can have both at the same time, increased risk of serious illness with CKD, how to protect yourself, and Q&A. Find details at https://www.kidney.org/content/flu-covid-19-webinar-facebook-live, and register at https://kidney.secure.force.com/rc_connect__campaign_designform?id=7013a000002DtitAAC&form=00P3a00001XCi6zEAD&. NKF also has a Q&A-format web page on Flu & COVID-19. Find it at https://www.kidney.org/coronavirus/flu-covid-19.
Resources for [Medicare-Medicaid] Integrated Care will also present an October 13, 2020 webinar on Promising Practices for Promoting Flu Vaccinations for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries During COVID-19. Dually-eligible patients are those who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, who may be even more vulnerable to serious illness from flu and COVID-19. Find details and register at https://www.resourcesforintegratedcare.com/2020_Webinar/Promoting_Flu_Vaccinations_During_COVID-19.
The California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care has removed fees from 19 of their online palliative care courses until June 30, 2020, in order to help make healthcare workers better prepared for the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic. The courses include continuing education credit. Their many offerings are grouped into these categories:
Find more information at https://csupalliativecare.org/covid-19-resources/?mc_cid=6ff90d657e&mc_eid=67e1ad4c31.
NCC has created an internet “hub” for patient education information, their ESRD NCC Patient Web Tool, to help people find resources created by patients for patients. It’s major subsections include COVID-19. transplant, home dialysis, infection prevention, well-being, new patient information, and the Kidney Community Emergency Response Coalition or KCER. Find it at https://thekidneyhub.org/.
A number of organizations are hosting weekly webinars on COVID-19. These include:
RSN KidneyTalk has published two new podcasts on:
The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California will hold it’s next free COVID Conversations and Patient-Centered Care webinar May 21, 2020, on the subject of CCCC Decision Aids, Ventilators, CPR, Transfers, And Comfort Care. Find details and register at https://mailchi.mp/coalitionccc.org/no-one-should-die-alone-on-the-street-746012?e=67e1ad4c31.
Upcoming weekly sessions will be announced at https://coalitionccc.org/covid-conversations-education/, and recordings of earlier sessions can be found there. CCCC also provides a COVID Conversations Toolbox at https://coalitionccc.org/covid-conversations-toolbox/, with conversation tools, forms and resources on advance directives and POLST, and links to COVID-19 resources and news updates. They also have a blog post on The Vital Importance of Advance Care Planning Amid COVID-19, which explains the difference between POLST and Advance Directives, and recommends specific actions. Find that at https://coalitionccc.org/2020/04/covid-19-conversation-toolkit/.
We apologize for being about six months late on this, but we didn’t discover it till today.
The CDC Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) program deals with communication in emergencies. CERC trainings are based on lessons learned during public health emergencies, evidence-based practices from the fields of risk and crisis communication, and psychology. The CERC trainings are offered in online, webinar, and in-person formats.
We’ve missed the webinar that they offered this morning on CERC Overview for COVID-19, but the slides are available, they look excellent, and reviewing them will take less time than the webinar would have. Find them at https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/training/webinar_20200406.asp. They will post video and transcript within a week.
Recordings of previous webinars include Introduction to Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication, Psychology of a Crisis, Messages & Audiences, Community Engagement, Spokesperson, Communication Channels, and Zika CERC Discussions. Find these at https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/training/archives.asp?deliveryName=USCDC_964-DM25112.
CDC’s Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) will present a 29 January, 2020 webinar on Communication Partnerships for Public Health Emergencies. Topics will include how to plan and build partnerships, how to make partnerships mutually beneficial, and how to work with partners to share information with the people who need it most. Getting life-saving information to the people who are hardest to reach often requires knowing which intermediaries can do the job. For more information and registration, see https://emergency.cdc.gov/epic/learn/webinar_20200129.asp.
CDC will present an October 23, 2019 webinar on Overcoming Message Resistance. During public safety emergencies, community leaders and emergency responders share advice that they believe will help reduce harm and save lives. People often receive and understand these messages but don’t take the “recommended” actions. The industry jargon for this is “message resistance.” While the webinar is about emergency communication, is message resistance really any different from the instruction given to patients every day by doctors and nurses, who refer to this tendency as non-adherence, nee noncompliance? This webinar uses communication science, behavioral science, and the experience of emergency responders to share best practices for overcoming message resistance. Find more information and register at https://emergency.cdc.gov/epic/learn/webinar_20191023.asp.
