LLCC-Medical District is committed to helping health care professionals meet the increasing challenges of today's health care environment and to promote and improve the health of society. Please review continuing education opportunities below. New health care continuing education classes are added throughout the year. We also offer custom training solutions to meet your performance goals. We will train at a location convenient for you: your workplace, off-site or at our location.
CNA Instructor Conference
Intimacy & Aging Series
One last time — Barb Bancroft returns to Springfield!
Hormonal Chaos: Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman
Wednesday, April 12, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (total of 5.5 CEUs)
Northfield Inn and Suites, 3280 Northfield Dr, Springfield, IL 62702
Register for Hormonal Chaos
Registration fee is $145. After March 15, the fee is $165.
Registration, payment and refund deadline is March 29, 2023. Reservations must be cancelled prior to March 29 to receive a refund.
If needing to stay overnight at Northfield Inn, request the LLCC Barb Bancroft rate of $85/night by calling 217-523-7900.
In 1873, Edward H. Clarke, an esteemed Harvard physician, claimed to have discovered the reason for "female sterility." The cause, he wrote, was the education of women, which diverted energy from the reproductive machinery to the brain, resulting in women with "monstrous brains and puny bodies." It took another 50 years for esteemed researchers to reluctantly admit that low sperm counts in men were also a significant cause of sterility.
We have come a loooooong way since 1873 in understanding gender differences. Join Barb for a fascinating and funny day delving into the myriad of anatomic similarities and dissimilarities, physiologic modifications, responses to pharmacologic agents and susceptibility to various diseases and conditions. Women are more spastic than men (migraines, spastic colon, coronary vasospasms), women have a more difficult time losing weight and women are more prone to autoimmune diseases. Men are more susceptible to infections and cancer, men have an earlier onset of coronary artery disease and men are more prone to neurological conditions (ADHD, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia). So, what's the scoop? Barb Bancroft will take you on a journey starting with the moment of conception through adolescence, adulthood and finally the Golden Years.
Barb Bancroft, R.N., M.S.N., P.N.P., is a widely acclaimed national speaker, noted for her humorous, entertaining and information-packed seminars. She has authored eight books to date including her latest, "Laughing My Asprin Off." Many people can conduct health seminars or write books on health, but very few can make them both thoroughly informative and entertaining. Barb makes complex health topics easily understandable, appealing and hilarious. She has provided more than 3000 educational and motivational seminars on clinical topics and health maintenance topics to health care professionals and corporations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Barb has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia, the University of Arkansas, Loyola University of Chicago, and St. Xavier University of Chicago. She has taught courses on Advanced Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Physical Assessment to graduate and undergraduate students. Barb is currently the executive director and president of CPP Associates, Inc., a continuing education firm for corporations and health care professionals based in Chicago, Ill.
Return to Together
Attendance options: In-person or via Zoom
In-person at Northfield Inn and Suites, 3280 Northfield Dr., Springfield, IL 62702 (Discounted rooms available for conference attendees.)
Register for Return Together
Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance.
Cost: $159. After March 24, the fee is $179.
Registration, payment and refund deadline is April 7, 2023. Reservations must be cancelled prior to April 7 to receive a refund.
Meet and greet: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7-9 p.m.
Join us as we celebrate, learn and reconnect at this event. Learn how to adapt teaching strategies to increase student success, build collaborative relationships with like professionals and receive support from CNA program experts.
Total CEUs: 6.25
7:30-8 a.m. — Registration
7:55-8 a.m. — Welcome/Announcements
8-9:15 a.m. — Keynote: Michele Deck
9:15-9:30 a.m. — Break
9:30-10:45 a.m. — IDPH updates
10:45-11:30 a.m. — SIU education coordinators
11:30 a.m.-noon — SIUC updates
Noon-1 p.m. — Lunch
1-2:15 p.m. — Guided networking session: Michele Deck
2:15-2:30 p.m. — Break
2:30-3:45 p.m. — Q&A
3:45-4 p.m. — Evaluations, certificates, closing announcements
Return to Together: Welcome and Connect
Today's learners are diverse consumers, who have been through the many changes in learning over the past 2-3 years. Our job now is to engage, teach and mentor students who have different learning styles, diverse expectations and short attention spans. We must adapt our teaching methods to build collaborative relationships, use involving methods, and get and keep their attention using the best of what we've discovered through this global challenge.
Guiding networking session
Bring your best teaching practices, samples, props and experiences to celebrate our reconnection. Experience some guided networking activities and share with colleagues what technology, apps, hands on methods you have used successfully with your learners. Plan what you will immediately use in your classes this year.
Michele Deck, MEd, BSN, RN, LCCE, FACCE, has presented nationally and internationally on innovative teaching methods in the field of health care education and training for over three years. She is the recipient of many honors and awards for her creativity, innovation, productivity and exemplary leadership qualities. Honors include Association of Nurses in Professional Development (ANPD) prestigious Belinda E. Puetz Award, election to Sigma (formerly called Sigma Theta Tau) National Nursing Honor Society and Business Woman of the Year by the National Business Council. She is co-founder and chief executive officer of G.A.M.E.S., a company that specializes in seminars on adult learning and interactive training methods, and Tool Thyme for Trainers, a company which supplies innovative and creative presentation tools for educators worldwide. She has authored 12 books on creative and involving ways to teach adults. She is a past president of Lamaze International and past accreditation chair. She served on ANPD's education committee and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development for eight years.
LLCC is proud to be an official continuing education provider site for paramedic, basic and advanced level EMTs through endorsement from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
We offer affordable and convenient in-person CE opportunities on a revolving basis to keep your knowledge fresh and relevant in the field. These courses are intended to provide EMTs the chance to review specific components of training within their scope of practice. All courses are provided by knowledgeable and highly trained instructors.
Who should take this training?
Any EMT looking to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to help fulfill their continuing education requirements.
Where are classes held?
All classes are held in-person on the LLCC Springfield campus, 5250 Shepherd Road, in Logan Hall.
CEUs will be earned on an hour-per-hour basis for the four-hour classes. The eight-hour classes will earn seven hours as there is a break for lunch.
Four-hour class = four hours of CEUs
Eight-hour class = seven hours of CEUs
You will receive a transcript of your continuing education courses via email within 30 days after course completion.
Pricing is on a sliding scale. The more hours you register for, the lower the cost per hour. Class dates, prices, registration details and cancellation policies are provided on the registration forms below.
Popular topics for EMT-Basic include
Register for EMT-B classes
Popular topics for EMT-Advanced include
Register for EMT-Advanced classes
Popular topics for paramedics include
Acid/base
Trauma patient management
Hemorrhage, shock and fluid resuscitation
Register for EMT-P classes
Specialty certification classes
Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
Geriatric Education for EMS (GEMS)
Register for specialty certifications
This three-part series will examine the complexities of intimacy among the aging population. Topics will include psychological and physiological aspects of intimacy, intimacy devices and potential solutions to various intimacy issues.
Each workshop will award 1.5 CEUs for RN, LPN, APRN, OT, OTA, SW, LCSW, MT, LPC, LCPC
Time: 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: Zoom (Link will be provided upon registration.)
Fees: $15 per workshop (Further instructions on how to obtain your CE certificate and provide payment will be sent via email following each workshop.)
The Mind: Psychological Aspects of Intimacy
Moderator: Amy Pearlman, MD
Presenter: Kaylie Caswell, MSN, WHNP-BC, CSC
Register for Part 1
The Body: Physiological Characteristics of Intimacy
Kaylie Caswell, MSN, WHNP-BC, CSC
Mary Hitt, FNP-BC, CUNP, NCMP
Cynthia Bednarchik, DNP, FNP-BC
Intimate Devices
Moderator: Kaylie Caswell, MSN, WHNP-BC, CS
Amy Pearlman, MD
LLCC-Medical District is approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to offer continuing education credit to nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, professional counselors and massage therapists. LLCC is approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health to offer continuing education units to emergency medical technicians. If you have any questions about certification please let us know.
LLCC accepting applications for free nursing and health care training
LLCC's PATH program provides free nursing and health care training to advance diversity and equity
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