Overview

The goal of this course is for all Care Team Members to learn engagement tools/skills in order to have productive conversations with patients about their health including basic motivational interviewing skills. The Care Team Member will build upon this foundation in order to apply their skills in different situations, such as Medication Assisted Treatment, (MAT) and Palliative Care.

The objectives of this course are:

• Describe the patient-centered approach of MI.
• Explain the conversation style that is the Spirit of MI.
• Demonstrate basic MI skills.
• Discuss how to use patient language cues (change talk and resistance) in the application of MI skills.
• Explain how to engage the patient in the four processes in MI necessary for health behavior change.
• Identify barriers to patient engagement and behavior change.
• Identify how to make cultural adaptations to MI.

Who should attend?

• Care Managers
• Nurses
• CHWs
• Medical Assistants
• Social Work/Behavioral Health Staff
• Pharmacists

Presenter

• Candy Vertalka, Clinical Performance Consultant, MPCA

Continuing Education

Continuing education will be through Michigan Institute for Care Management and Transformation (MICMT)

CE’s offered…Certification of Completion, Nursing CE, Social Work CE

Zoom Registration

To register and receive your Zoom link, click here.

Questions??

Contact Candy Vertalka, [email protected].