Value: $110.00

Cost: $35.00 for general registrants.

Methodist Health System employees who provide their employee ID number on the registration form may take this course at no cost. NMC students can attend at no cost (they do not receive CE).

Employees of Perinatal Outreach hospitals and Alumni receive 75% off of the program's value.

Nurses, social workers, mental health practitioners, and other health professionals interested in understanding adoption.

This program will provide information about adoption history, adoption laws, and adoption language in the 21st century.

Program Objectives:

• Identify Nebraska law regarding adoption.
• Demonstrate use of proper adoption language.
• Differentiate between the types of adoption.
• Examine the adoption process from the perspective of the birth parents.

In order to receive continuing education hours for this event, you must meet the following completion requirements:

• Attendance at entire activity
• Completion/submission of evaluation form within 30 days of the program.

Nurses

2.25 contact hours awarded. MW MSD Provider Approval #NE1019-9

Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Nebraska Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers

This offering meets the continuing education criteria for 2.25 clock hours for Nebraska and Iowa Social Workers.

Mental Health Practitioners

This offering meets the continuing education criteria for 2.25 clock hours for Nebraska licensed mental health practitioners and Iowa Behavioral Sciences practitioners.

Education

2.25 Education hours. Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development assigns education hours based on 60 minutes of classroom instruction for each offering. Participants may use these for their professional continuing education hours and toward re-licensure if so approved within the standards and guidelines of their discipline.

Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development awards educational contact hours to the disciplines listed above. Each professional is accountable to understand his or her accrediting/licensing body's standards and requirements. The definitive source of information on continuing education requirements is your state or national regulatory board.