Welcome to the 2012 Supervising Public Health Nurse 2 (SPHN) Continuing Education Program (CEP). This NEW version of the SPHN CEP is an update and replaces previous SPHN CEPs.
Background:
Changes made to the State Sanitary Code in 2008 require Local Health Department staff hired to the Public Health Nurse 2 (PHN2) and Supervising Public Health Nurse (SPHN) titles to complete 15 hours of continuing education within their first year of employment. PHN2 and SPHN Continuing Education Programs on the NYLearnsPH.com LMS were developed to assist these staff in meeting this requirement.
Intended Audience for SPHN CEP:
- SPHN hired after August 20, 2008 , who have not yet completed a previous version of the SPHN CEP.
- ALL PHNs are encouraged to take the program.
The Continuing Education Programs cover key competency domains of public health nursing, including:
- Basic Public Health Science
- Community Dimensions of Practice
- Cultural Competency
- Analytic Assessment
- Communication
Notes:
- The Program must be completed within the individual’s first year of employment.
- ALL Supervising Public Health Nurses are encouraged to take the Core Curriculum.
- If a newly hired Supervising Public Health Nurse should have any difficulty completing the program within the first year of employment, they should contact LMS Administration at edlearn@health.ny.gov.
Courses:
This program consists of six (6) interactive online courses (~14.5h), one (1) archived webinar on the New Quad Council Nursing Competencies (~1h), and nine (9) short format videos (~2.5h) that discuss valuable Community Assessment Data and Information Resources. The webinar and Data videos are passive learning and are not seen as contributing equally to the 15 hours of continuing education required by the Sanitary Code; the video resources are set-up with self-certify quizzes that can be accessed through the activities column in the MY Courses _Current Courses or Current Programs views. These passive resources have been included to ensure that you are aware of, and can benefit from, them. You will need to mark yourself complete for these resources in order to complete the SPHN-CEP2012 program.
Enrolling in the Program:
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Scroll down to the bottom of the program description page, you will find a Course Status Table displaying your status for each course in the program.
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To enroll in the program you must click on the “Begin Program Enrollment” button below the course status table.
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On the resultant page you must scroll down beneath the course status table and enroll (choose section and continuing education credits, if applicable) for each program course that you are not yet enrolled in or have not yet completed.
If you have completed any of the constituent program courses outside of the LMS, it will not displayed as complete on the LMS. To correct this, please contact the LMS administrator at edlearn@health.ny.gov
and include electronic copies of any relevant completion certificates.
If you have any questions about the Continuing Education requirement, program/course enrollment or completion email edlearn@health.ny.gov or call 518-473-4223 and ask to speak with Tom Reizes or Abbey Greenbaum.