Full course description
CAPACITY offers free, self-paced courses designed to help RNs strengthen knowledge and skills to practice to the full scope of license in community-based primary care settings.
This module provides an introduction to the social determinants of health (SDOH) and how they relate to children. It also teaches you how to administer and interpret the SDOH screening tool, WE CARE. Finally, it provides guidance on how to promote healthy habits in children from families of all income levels.
Objectives
- Discuss the social determinants of health (SDOH) and how they relate to children
- Administer and interpret the SDOH screening tool, "WE CARE"
- Promote healthy habits with guidelines for including goals for healthy eating, physical activity, and limiting time spent on the computer, smart devices, and in front of the television
Contact Hours
Emory Nursing Professional Development Center (ENPDC) is accredited as a provider of nursing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Attendees to this CNE activity will be awarded 0.5 contact hours by ENPDC. To obtain contact hours participants must attend and participate in the entire activity, click onto all links, review all resources as well as complete the evaluation at the end.
ENPDC has evaluated everyone who has the ability to control content of this activity (planning committee members, subject matter experts, presenters) and found they have no conflict of interest.