Audience: Physicians, APRNs, PAs, RNs, LPNs, MAs

Description: Each year, over 650 children in New Hampshire are poisoned by lead and experience blood lead levels known to impair academic performance and cause behavior challenges. Lead exposure has a significant negative impact on cognitive ability, speech, and language, hearing, visual-spatial skills, attention, impulse control, social behaviors, emotional regulation, and motor skills. Children with lead exposure cannot avoid the negative impact and once a child’s health or cognition has been harmed by lead, the effects can be permanent and continue into adulthood. 

Presented by: Gail Gettens, MS, ECMP Health Promotion Advisor and Child Development Specialist

Upon completion of the training, attendees will be able to: 

• Identify key outcomes from the Cincinnati Lead Study
• Review regional lead exposure and testing surveillance data 
• Describe legislation impacting pediatric health providers 
• Discuss NH's low pediatric blood lead level testing rates

Continuing Education

Physicians: The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is accredited by the NH Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is approved as a provider of nursing coninuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This activity was approved for 1 Nursing Contact Hour. Activity #482.

For Other Professionals: 1.0 Professional Hour of Continuing Education. 

Funding

This training was made possible by funding from the NH Division of Public Health Services. 

Register by April 21, 2021

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