Faculty

Needs Statement

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the increased use of telehealth to provide patient care. In addition, social isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the mental health of many individuals, especially the elderly. This module will explore the role of telehealth in the management of COVID-19 and mental health and how social isolation has affected mental health in the elderly.

Target Audience

Registered Nurses

Objectives

After completing this module, the participant will be able to:

1. Discuss the role of telehealth in the management of COVID-19.
2. Explore the role of telehealth in reducing the mental health burden of COVID-19.
3. Describe the impact of social isolation on the elderly and review recommendations to avoid mental and functional decline.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

CNE
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 0.50 nursing contact hours.

Faculty Disclosure

All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include a discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Acknowledgement

In collaboration with UK College of Nursing Continuing Education Office.