ATTENTION ACUPUNCTURISTS: COMPLETE YOUR COMPULSORY CPD IN PROFESSIONAL ISSUES FOR 2016 - 2017
Professional Issues: Safety and Ethics Is Not Only Mandatory, It Is the Foundation of Excellence in Clinical Care
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Because the most important person in your acupuncture practice is you, our Professional Issues Safety and Ethics (PISE) program focuses on the challenges you face in your practice and how to overcome these. Gain confidence, increase your clinical outcomes, attract new patients and be part of a new movement towards professional recognition so that you thrive in your livelihood.
What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
Being an acupuncturist is not just about seeing patients. There are professional issues associated with clinical care; medico-legal obligations such as record keeping and taking care of yourself… so you can a healthy and balanced practitioner for your patients.
Your practice success starts with you being happy, confident and content.
What You'll Get
When you enrol today, you'll receive instant access to the exclusive AcuPro Professional Issues: Safety and Ethics program
- 2 Core modules
- Course hand outs
- Plus 3 FREE BONUS modules
- 5 Quizzes and certificates
- Total 8 hours video training CPD
Course Details
Tuition: Limited Time Special Just $197 USD (Normally $297 - Save $100 USD)
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Setting: Online / Virtual
Course Length: 8 hours (choose when and where you learn)
Completion Time: You Have 12 months to complete the program
Get Your "Professional Issues" Safety & Ethics Requirements Sorted Out Today
Program Cost Is $197 USD - Reduced from $297 USD
(GST is in addition for Australia residents and charged in USD)
Time Limited Enrolment Opportunity
Closing on 7th October 2016
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Course Details and Description
Course Contents
Module 1 (Saftey): Burnout Prevention Strategies for Acupuncturists with Isobel Cosgrove
- Understanding definitions; burnout represents a yin xu energy in practice
- How to identify early warning signs of burnout
- Developing strategies to change your working life
- How to overcome the challenge of developing new strategies and behaviours that will enable the forming of a sustainable and satisfying practice
- Growing your acupuncture practice according to your needs
- Responding to different life stages, and different levels of energy in later life
Module 2 (Ethics): A Review of Ethical Clinical Practice - Running a Successful Acupuncture Business with Amanda Shayle
- Understanding what is ethics and how it applies to us as Acupuncturists
- Understand what is required to providing an appropriate environment to practice
- Upskill in appropriate therapeutic boundaries
- Gain an insight into how the internet has changed the way we need to work
- Understanding confidentiality and the law
Bonus Modules = 4 Hours
Bonus Module 1: Duality and Oneness - Overcoming Professional Struggles Panel with Angela Hicks, Dr Yair Maimon, Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, Dr Yaron Seidman and Debra Betts PLUS Guided Meditation hosted by Satyen Raja.
- Understand how to better serve your patients by working from a place of authenticity and completeness
- Learn how to engage with patients to build rapport - even when you don't feel confident in yourself
- Gain an insight into how your internal voice affects how you practice – your relationship with true yourself is the foundation of your practice and the essence of attracting new patients
- Overcome dualities and experience a balancing technique “The Universal Process”to equip you to be a better, more balanced and happier practitioner
Bonus Module 2: What to do when you don’t know what to do? With Dr Yair Maimon
- Learn strategies of how to deal with those challenging times when you don’t know what is going on and have no idea how to proceed
- Develop skills to build rapport and ‘create a space’ to allow an open expression of your patient’s deep or suppressed feelings
- Understand how to feel more confident even in situations where you don't have all of the answers
- Gain an insight into how to create a deeper level of communication with the Shen - both yours and your patient's
- Develop confidence from knowing how to manage challenging situations
- Gain an instant strategy for reaching a more accurate diagnosis on which to base your treatment plans
Bonus Module 3. Adrenal Fatigue, Kidney Deficiency and Burnout With Dr Dan Keown
- Understand the interrelationships of embryology, endocrinology and TCM
- Explore the fundamental role of the Kidneys and Dopamine production and how this afects mental health, motivation and the Zhi aspect (will power)
- Gain an insight into the role of the Spleen in the Yi (thinking aspect) as it relates to Serotonin, a chemical mood-stabilizer that is often associate with depression
- Learn about how to apply this greater understanding to ‘self-care’ to avoid burnout
Course Description
CORE MODULES
Module 1 (Safety): Burnout Prevention Strategies for Acupuncturists
Instructor: Isobel Cosgrove (UK)
Duration: 2 hours
Category: Professional Issues: Safety
The professional journey of an acupuncturist is not clearly mapped out. Working for ourselves can be exciting and inspiring. We can form our own agendas, use our own creativity, and build our own individual dreams. At the same time we need to use this excitement to move in the right direction, and at the right speed for us. Too quickly can lead to burnout, too slowly can mean fadeout. How do we stay motivated, maintain an even pace that works for us, individually? How can we stay connected to others, and avoid isolation, which undermines good, ethical practice management? This webinar offers practical guidance in building sustainable, nourishing practices while helping you lay foundations for a successful lifelong acupuncture practice.
Module 2 (Ethics): A Review of Ethical Clinical Practice - Running a Successful Acupuncture Business
Instructor: Amanda Shayle (UK)
Duration: 2 hours
Category: Professional Issues: Ethics
Many countries around the world require acupuncturists to undertake compulsory training in ethics. A code of ethics is a framework for approaching patient care and best clinical practice, while fulfilling legal obligations. While good conduct is a given for any health professional, the reality is that working in the community can lead to situations where the best way to proceed may not be clear. This webinar covers a huge range of situations that an acupuncturist may face, and how to approach it – in accordance with the NCCAOM’s code of ethics.
BONUS MODULES
Bonus Module 1: Duality and Oneness: Overcoming Professional Struggles Panel
Instructors: Angela Hicks (UK), Dr Yair Maimon (Israel), Mary Elizabeth Wakefield (USA), Dr Yaron Seidman (USA), Debra Betts (NZ) and Guided Meditation hosted by Satyen Raja (Canada)
Duration: 2 hours
Category: Professional Issues: Safety
Acupuncturists often work in isolation and can sometimes take better care of their patients than themselves. To find out solutions to working safely and effectively, we asked five international experts about their journey to success. Our experts share their insights and advice about how to thrive as an acupuncturist - and struggles they have had to overcome including self doubt, financial stress and juggling work and family life.
Satyen Raja takes you through a guided meditation so that you tap into your true essence so that all the work you do comes from a place of authenticity and confidence. This is how you will practice safely and evolve as an acupuncturist. This webinar is extremely powerful. One not to miss.
Bonus Module 2: What to do when you don’t know what to do?
Instructor: Dr Yair Maimon (Israel)
Duration: 1 hour
Category: Professional Issues: Safety
Working with patients is immensely satisfying, especially when you feel confident in your diagnosis and approach. But what do you do, when you don't know what to do? This is a question that Dr Yair Maimon, an internationally renowned cancer specialist in the field of Integrative and Chinese Medicine with over 25 years of clinical, academic, and research experience - helps to answer. This webinar addresses the more challenging aspects of working as a clinician. Learn about “holding a space” so that you can talk “shen to shen” and get to the root of the problem and have deep and profound shifts in just a few treatments. Diagnosis is the key to success. Learn how to reach this quickly and accurately to increase your treatment confidence and enhance your clinical outcomes.
Bonus Module 3: Adrenal Fatigue, Kidney
Instructor: Dr Dan Keown (UK)
Duration: 1 hour
Category: Professional Issues: Safety
Author of the Spark in the Machine Dr Keown brings a unique view to TCM based on his western medical training and work as an Accident and Emergency Doctor. By understanding the hormone relationship with the organs – in particular the Kidneys role with Dopamine and the Spleen and Serotonin, Dr Keown explains how illness and disease can be prevented. His vision extends beyond helping patients to achieve better health outcomes to supporting practitioners in self-care strategies. Being an acupuncturist can be challenging, issues of isolation and burn out are rarely discussed but essential to address in order to work safely and thrive in our clinical practice.
Why This Will Help You
CORE MODULES
Module 1 (Safety): Burnout Prevention Strategies
Benefit 1. Understand how isolation and the demands of clinical practice can lead to burnout
Benefit 2. Gain an insight into how to overcome professional challenges
Benefit 3. Refresh your perspective so that you better plan your business activities to suit your personal goals based on your capacity
Module 2 (Ethics): A Review of Ethical Clinical Practice
Benefit 1. Have a clear framework for dealing with the challenging ‘grey areas’ of practice
Benefit 2. Achieve a higher level of understanding about your obligations as a primary care clinician
Benefit 3. Become skilled at facing challenging situations
BONUS MODULES
Bonus Module 1. Duality and Oneness: Overcoming Professional Struggles: Expert Panel& Guided Meditation
Benefit 1. Reflect on who you are and where your business is going
Benefit 2. Receive great advice from experts who have overcome personal struggles
Benefit 3. Grow your business by being authentic and truly present, having experienced the Universal Process guided meditation
Bonus Module 2:. What to do when you don’t know what to do?
Benefit 1. Quickly build patient rapport by learning how to ‘hold a space’
Benefit 2. Understand the essential elements to become an expert practitioner
Benefit 3. Build your acupuncture practice through better results and meaningful relationships because you feel more confident facing challenging situations
Bonus Module 3: Adrenal Fatigue, Kidney Deficiency and Burnout
Benefit 1. Understand biochemistry and the western and TCM understanding of adrenal fatigue and burnout
Benefit 2. Know what burnout signs may look like so you can identify these in yourself, colleagues or patients
Benefit 3. Gain an insight into lifestyle approaches to avoid burnout
Get Your "Professional Issues" Safety & Ethics Requirements Sorted Out Today
Program Cost Is $197 USD - Reduced from $297 USD
(GST is in addition for Australia residents and charged in USD)
Time Limited Enrolment Opportunity
Closing on 7th October 2016
Enrol Now While This Offer Is Available
About Your Presenters
Isobel Cosgrove: Burnout Prevention Strategies for Acupuncturists
Isobel is one of the UK’s leading professional mentors. She runs the BAcC’s Supervision and Mentoring ‘train the trainer’ program, teaching other established practitioners how to offer supervision and mentoring to peers and new graduates
Isobel’s acupuncture career, which spans over three decades, has been punctuated by several changes in geographical location, the birth of her two daughters, being a mother and grandmother and now moving into a later phase of life. She believes that burnout can occur at different times – and in this candid webinar she shares her deeply personal experience with it.
Isobel has always been committed to maintaining high standards of practice and professional codes of ethics. Isobel taught Human Sciences in the United States, and then at Newcastle and Oxford Universities in the 1960s and 70s.
In 1978 she studied Yoga and Tibetan Medicine in Canada, then Chinese Medicine in the UK, and has been in practice since 1981.
Isobel is one of the most inspiring practitioners you will ‘virtually’ meet. A webinar not to be missed.
Amanda Shayle: A Review of Ethical Clinical Practice
Amanda is deeply passionate about acupuncture being recognised as an integral part of primary healthcare. She believes professional recognition will be achieved when all practitioners can demonstrate that they adhere to high levels of professional standards through established codes of ethics.
When she is not working as a TCM Practitioner in private practice or a senior lecturer for the College of Chinese Medicine in London, she dedicates her time to The Acupuncture Society, of which she is the Vice Chairperson. Much of her work has been to promote integration of acupuncture into commissioned medical treatment pathways and to represent Acupuncturists in potential regulation in the United Kingdom.
Amanda is one of those women that will not stop until she has changed the world. Her knowledge and passion are inspirational and her gift is an innate ability to teach and share. Amanda puts spice into this topic – making it compelling and relevant to anyone in clinical practice.
Dr Yair Maimon (Israel)
Yair is an internationally renowned figure in the field of Integrative and Chinese Medicine with over 25 years of clinical, academic, and research experience in the United States, Europe, and Israel.
He is best know as a cancer specialist, working clinically with patients as well as heading the Tal Centerfor integrative cancer researchat Sheba hospital. As well as being Head of the Israeli center for research in complementary medicine, he is Chairman of the International Congress of Chinese Medicine in Israel. He holds current posts in a number of medical departments and research facilities in Israel.
Dr. Maimon’s teaching is inspired from a deep understanding of Chinese medicine and insights to the Shen’s influences on suffering and healing. Yair’s authenticity, warmth and kindness make him an exceptional practitioner and teacher.
Dr Daniel Keown: Adrenal Fatigue, Kidney Deficiency and Burnout
Dr Daniel Keown is a glowing figurehead for our profession having trained as a Doctor and now a flamboyant advocate for TCM.
Dan developed an interested in Chinese medicine in his teens from his grandmother's exploits in China. After finishing his degree in medicine he worked for over a decade as an Emergency doctor. Before returning back to college to complete a degree in Chinese medicine.
Realizing that aspects of Chinese medicine remained poorly understood from a biomedical standpoint,he travelled to China to study under the masterful tutelage of Dr Wang Ju-Yi. It was this study that provided the impetus to write 'The Spark In The Machine’ - a book which was an instant hit because of its ground-breaking work linking eastern and western medicine.
Dan holds strong views about the world and our role as acupuncturists. He is a visionary for a new world order – one that recognizes acupuncture and other TCM techniques and our role as lead clinicians in the healthcare landscape.
Duality and Oneness: Overcoming Professional Struggles Expert Panel and Guided Meditation
Dr Yair Maimon
Dr Maimon is driven by a desire to understand human suffering – why illness occurs, why we inflict suffering on others and most importantly, why we inflict suffering on ourselves?
Dr Maimon believes that every patient has a deep-seated belief in why they have their condition, and that until we identify what that is, we will only ever be guessing ourselves. Meaningful shifts can only occur when you have reached the patient on a deep Shen level, engaging with their subconscious belief about their health and illness.
He has developed strategies for getting to the root of the issue within a few short minutes. These techniques have evolved after years of concurrently holding the Head positionsin several research and teaching hospitals.
He is the former Dean and Co-founder of the largest TCM collage in Israel, Director of a program in Chinese medicine for Medical Doctors at a University; Lecturer of Medical Psychology at Tel Aviv University; Head of the complementary medicine unit at the Tel Aviv hospital, and involved in research and the treatments in an in and outpatient hospital setting.
Dr. Maimon’s teaching is inspired from a deep understanding of Chinese medicine and insights to the Shen’s influences on trauma, anguish, pain and healing.
Dr Yaron Seidman
Yaron is a Chinese Medicine fertility specialist, having practiced and researched in the field for the past 25 years. He is an international teacher and lecturer, and founder of the Hunyuan Fertility Method which now has branches all over the world.
In addition to his teaching commitments, he is an author as well as an associate researcher at Harvard University. Despite accolades as long as your arm, Yaron is deeply humble about his success. He is driven by a true desire to evolve traditional medicine and integrate it into contemporary society. His desire to unearth the truth has lead him to continue to dig deeper into the richness of Chinese Medicine, back to its original roots. This knowledge and insight he shares openly, which is how he has come to be so well know and well liked.
Mary Elizabeth Wakefield (USA)
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Mary Elizabeth is one of the world's leading teachers of facial renewal techniques and has trained close to 4,000 acupuncturists and body-workers on five continents.
Being passionate, vibrant and oozing contagious positive energy, Mary Elizabeth is an inspirational leader and one that we are privileged to have on the panel of experts and an Acupuncture Professional educator.
Angela Hicks (UK)
Angela is a world authority in Five Element Acupuncture as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is joint Principal and co-founder of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading, UK one of the leading teaching schools in Europe.
In addition, Angela is the author of The Principles of Chinese Medicine, 88 Chinese Medicine Secrets and The Acupuncture Handbook, and co-author of Healing your Emotions and the textbook Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture.
Her acupuncture career started in 1976 and she was a lecturer and clinical supervisor at The College of Traditional Acupuncture from 1979 until 1987. She studied TCM and completed postgraduate clinical training in China at the Nanjing College of TCM and in 1988 she co-founded Acupuncture Training Courses, a postgraduate course teaching TCM theory to Five Element acupuncturists.
Angela is also a Chinese Herbalist and a Focusing teacher and she regularly practices qigong. Angela’s calm and wise demeanor make her one of the most likable and highly revered teachers you will ever meet.
Dr Debra Betts
Debra is one of the most gifted educators in the field of acupuncture. She has a background in nursing and graduated from the London College of Acupuncture in 1989.
Returning to New Zealand she established a private practice specialising in pregnancy and women’s health care. She began specifically developing and teaching acupuncture courses to midwives in 1997.
This led to the publication of articles on the use of acupuncture and acupressure in obstetric practice and later the publication of her book “The Essential Guide to Acupuncture in Pregnancy & Childbirth” in 2006.
Debra completed her
She is also a clinical supervisor at a hospital antenatal acupuncture clinic Wellington New Zealand, and lectures internationally on the use of acupuncture in obstetric care.
Without a doubt Debra is one of the most valuable assets to the profession because of her ability to straddle eastern and western paradigms including being well versed in science research and health politics.
A mother of three, Debra joins the panel to share her experiences about the pressure of juggling family life with a successful acupuncture practice.
Get Your "Professional Issues" Safety & Ethics Requirements Sorted Out Today
Program Cost Is $197 USD - Reduced from $297 USD
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Why You Should Get Certified
As a Professional
- You will have proof of your training in Professional Issues, Safety & Ethics to satisfy your professional requirements
- Learn how to identify signs of burnout and implement strategies to prevent it. Essential for you – and also so you can spot this early in your patients
- Understand that safe practice extends beyond clinical aspects of needling and that YOU are your acupuncture practice – you need to be fit and well to best serve your patients safely
- Gain a greater confidence in understandingethical practice, which is the foundation of good clinical care – especially when it comes to the “grey areas” of working with patients
- Hear about struggles that experts in the field have overcome, and their personal advice for you
- Learn what to do when you don’t know what to do
- Gain strategies for reaching a more accurate diagnosis on which to base your treatment plans
So, if you want to …
- Develop strategies to thrive in your practice while having your own needs met and best serving your patients
- Protect yourself from isolation, feelings of discontent and burn outLearn how to ‘hold a space’ when someone presents with a condition that you don’t know how to treat
- Hear from experts about their professional journey and advice they have to share as their legacy
… this course certification is for you.
For You Personally ...
- Know that you’re not alone, we all go through highs and lows in our practice. This course will give you a greater understanding of the lifetime journey of an acupuncturist
- Gain expert advice about how to deal with the discomfort of not knowing how to treat a patient – learn ‘what to do when you don’t know what to do’
- Get the professional validation from hearing from professional leaders about their struggles with confidence, juggling family needs and periods of self doubt
- Understand the complex ethical issues around being an acupuncturist and a framework for clear decision-making
- Feel the satisfaction of knowing you are abreast with current issues about the safe and ethical practice of acupuncture
- Get a framework for understanding your patient relationships and how to maintain healthy boundaries to achieve job satisfaction
- Learn how to communicate better so that retain patients
- Continue on your personal journey as someone who stands out, someone who pursues excellence, someone who values themselves as an asset to the community
So, if you want to …
- Feel confident in your practice
- Understand ways to approach complex situations
- Satisfy your requirements with inspirational leaders
... then this course is DEFINITELY for you.
How Does It Work?
Step 1: Take the Course
The AcuPro Professional Issues Series consists of two CORE modules, and three BONUS modules, plus reading material (details below).
In total, you get 8 hours of Professional Issues Safety and Ethics CPD including certificates to print for your records and a PDF print out of the presentation notes for your files.
The best part is that you have 12 months to watch the modules as many times as you like!
You can take part in this course from wherever you are and at any time you choose. All that is required is an internet connection and a device on which to watch the video training and take the quiz (e.g. laptop or tablet).
This represents the ultimate flexibility and convenience in learning and advancing yourself and your career. It is the future of professional learning, freeing you up to do the things you love.
Embrace this new technology and the convenience of accredited online learning.
Easy, cost effective, convenient and available RIGHT NOW.
Step 2: Pass Each Quiz
After each module there is a QUIZ to complete.
Each quiz consists of 10 multiple-choice questions that are taken directly from the module.
The pass mark for each quiz is 70% and you may re-sit the quiz as many times as you need before finalising your result.
After each attempt at the quiz, your answers will be displayed and compared to the correct answers.
You can use this direct feedback feature as a learning tool to enhance your knowledge and skills.
Step 3: Get The Certificate
The AcuPro Professional Issues Series consists of two CORE modules, and three BONUS modules.
After successfully completing each module and quiz you will receive a certificate confirming your CPD points. This certificate is in PDF format, that you can download and save to your computer, as well as print out for your records.
Why AcuPro is Different?
Acupuncture Professional believes that the continuing professional development isn’t just about fulfilling points or hours. It’s an opportunity to take stock of who you are and where you are going. Without this, we as acupuncturists may be steered off course, and not in tune with the Dao. So to stay on the path that is right for you, take advice from experts who have dedicated their life to our wonderful profession.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How does an online course work?
A: Acupuncture Professional is a leading provider of online learning. Every module is recorded specifically for online training. What this means is that it is like having a private Skype session with an expert.
Because the presenter has delivered the content with you in mind, the online platform is a very intimate way to learn.
When you purchase the course, you will go straight through to our learning management system, so you can start today, right now. It’s that easy.
Q: Do I need to watch the courses at a particular time?
A: No, you do not need to be online at a particular time to watch your Professional Issues Safety and Ethics modules. When you purchase a course, it will be available in your account for 12 months. You may login to the website at any time to take the course. Starting today.
If you need your CPD points/ hours in a hurry – this course is definitely for you!!
Q: Is there a guarantee?
A: Yes there is. If, within 14 days, you do not consider that this program meets your needs, you may request a refund through our support desk. We issue refunds in the last week of each month.
Q: Do I need to take the course in one sitting?
A: No, you may take the course at your own pace. Our modular format allows you to easily watch a 1 1/2 – 2 hour video and complete a module, so you can easily watch a module when you have a spare minute, such as on your lunch break. You can pause your course, and may continue from that point the next time you login. You can also watch it repeatedly, start, stop and pause, rewind and fast forward as you go along.
Q: What is the Acupuncture Professional refund/return/cancellation policy?
A: In the event that you are not satisfied with the service, then a refund may be offered. Refunds can only be made to the same credit card account as originally used in the purchase transaction. Details of any refund request should be made using email ([email protected]) and must be
i) made within thirty (30) days of enrolment in the course and
ii) before any assessment is completed and before a certificate of completion is issued.
If a refund is offered the refund transaction will be made via our third party payment processor and may be less a processing fee of 15% of the price paid for the course or courses. Refunds are not available if requested later than thirty (30) days after enrolment or after a User has completed any assessment or after a certificate of completion has been issued.
Get Your "Professional Issues" Safety & Ethics Requirements Sorted Out Today
Program Cost Is $197 USD - Reduced from $297 USD
(GST is in addition for Australia residents)
Time Limited Enrolment Opportunity
Closing on 7th October 2016
Enrol Now While This Offer Is Available
30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
You've got 30 days to assess this program for your professional needs. If you discover that this program does not meet your professional needs and you let us know within 30 days of purchase, we will refund your enrolment fee.