Trainings
Want to learn new, practical skills that will help you play a role in improving the Nation’s health? Take one of our interactive eLearning courses for health professionals, students, and community leaders.
Partnering to Heal is a computer-based, video-simulation training program on infection control practices for clinicians, health professional students, and patient advocates. The training highlights effective communication about infection control practices and ideas for creating a “culture of safety” in healthcare institutions. Learn more about the training.
Defining Success in a Systems Approach: The San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative shows how San Diego County is learning to evaluate its systems approach to childhood obesity and create healthier environments. Find out more about this Healthy People eLearning lesson.
Preventing Adverse Drug Events: Individualizing Glycemic Targets Using Health Literacy Strategies trains health care providers to reduce hypoglycemic adverse drug events (ADEs) in older adults. The course describes how to apply current evidence-based guidelines for individualized glycemic target goals and how to use health literacy strategies. Learn more about the course.
Pathways to Safer Opioid Use is an immersive, interactive training tool that allows users to assume the role of 4 playable characters — a nurse, physician, patient, and pharmacist — and make decisions about preventing adverse drug events related to opioid use. The training promotes evidence-based prevention strategies outlined in the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention that integrate principles of health literacy, chronic pain, and safe opioid use. Learn more about the course.