A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
September 13, 2021
8:00 am–9:00 am ET
Geared towards to staff at Community Health Connections. This training will describe key harm reduction techniques that promote wellness in vulnerable populations
Via Zoom
Geared towards to staff at Community Health Connections. This training will describe key harm reduction techniques that promote wellness in vulnerable popluations. The training will also discuss substance use disorder and evidence based strategies to best support patients in their recovery.
Please note that camera use is required in order to be eligible for continuing education credits, meaning you must have your camera turned on and we must be able to see you during the training.
Staff and affiliates of Community Health Connection
Vanessa is a Clinical Nurse Educator for Boston Medical Center's OBAT Technical Assistance Team with clinical interest and expertise in management of substance use disorders in primary care, chronic mental illness, and infectious diseases. She is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner receiving her Masters of Science in Nursing at Simmons College, and board certified in Advance Practice Addictions nursing through the Addictions Nursing Certification Board (CARN-AP). Prior to joining the OBAT TTA team, she was the Administrative Director of the Addiction Services Department at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, formerly the South End Community Health Center, developing their multidisciplinary nursing led addiction program and where she practiced as a nurse practitioner managing a high risk patient panel. Vanessa also worked as a registered nurse in acute treatment services and medical stabilization programs.
- Participants will be able to describe harm reduction as a set of practical skills to reduce harms associated with substance use.
- Participants will be able to describe Harm Reduction as a philosophy to create equity in healthcare and promote wellness throughout populations of vulnerable people.
- Participants will be able to integrate harm reduction into clinical practice.
- Participants will be able to identify medication treatment as an evidence-based strategy
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS).
Boston Medical Center grants 1.00 hours to all nurses who attend and complete the evaluation. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.