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Online Professional Development Courses

Take an online course (30 Continuing Education Contact Hours course or 3 CEUs, 3 Continuing Education Units) that consists of 10 online modules and a 68-item online multiple choice test. When 75% of the test answers are correct and a $70 payment is made online, your computer prints out your course certificate right on your own printer, 24/7.  Or log in here to print your certificate. You may retake the test once within a week without further payment. Please do not take the Tests at the beginning or end of each module, but take the test linked with the course on this page. These courses are approved as continuing education for nurses, social workers, counselors, educators, pharmacists and managers (CE Provider).

Step 1: Select a course below.

Step 2: Study the text and activities of all 10 modules and follow some of the links.

Step 3: Take the 68-item multiple-choice test linked below and pay online.

 

 K101, Professional Ethics: Principles & Practice

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. Describe rational thinking in ethics. b. Describe the applications of ethics in various professional situations. c Identify the main issues in ethical living.  d. Present plans for personal ethical problem solving.

PROFESSOR: Rudolf Klimes, PhD.

MODULES: M1, Ethical Choices: How to Reason Ethically
M2  Ethical Problems: What Guides Decisions?
M3 Health Care Ethics: Values, Obligations and Right,
M4 Social Ethics: Trust and Accountability 
M5
Global Ethics: Concerns for Citizen ,  
M6 Business Ethics: Doing Straight Transactions
 

M7 Reality Ethics: Solving Ethical Cases ,
 
M8 Ethical Dilemmas: Solving Dilemma Cases 
M9 Transparency Ethics: Honesty and Deception,  
M10 Ethics of Disclosure: Tell or Hide

TEST: Click here to take the test online and make payment online.

Groups of 20 or more students who desire to take this course and receive post-mailed certificates may post-mail the 20+ test answers on individual sheets together with the required name, address, etc. and one check for $35 for each student (for 20 students, $700) in one mailing to LearnWell, 3967 Valley Vista, Camino CA 95709. LearnWell will assist students with problems via email edu@learnwell.org. In that case all correspondence needs to have K101 in the subject line.  The same is applicable to any single 3-hours study module (any of M1-M10), only the group needs to be 30 students or more and the fee is $8 per student (for 30 students, $240). This policy applies to any LearnWell or Klimes online 3-hour course.

K555,  Alternative Medicine: Basics of Holistic Health

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. describe various alternative medicine methods, b. identify areas where alternative medicine methods may be useful, and c. evaluate the effectiveness of various alternative medicine methods.

PROFESSOR: Rudolf Klimes, PhD

MODULES:

M1. TopWell: The Top Wellness Lifestyle Program H101
M2.  Managing Stress: Dev Stress-Resistant Lifestyle H102
M3. 
Health Script: Dealing with Emotional Reactions  H110
M4.  Better Weight: A Lifestyle Approach H221
M5. Healing Meditation: A Way of Stress Reduction  H311 
M6.  Bibliotherapy: Reading for Problem-solving H901 
M7.  Healing Talk: Think, Talk and Act Health H
910
M8.  Healing Humor: Laughter that Facilitates Wellness N101
M9.  Spiritual Care: Help in Distress N731
M10.  Forgiveness Therapy: Healing the Wrongs
 F101

For further study: http://www.nccam.nih.gov/   http://www.altmedicine.com/  http://www.alternativemedicine.com/  

TEST: Click here to take the test online and make payment online.

K801, Learning Designs: Online Studies

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. design online courses, and b. understand major learning design concepts.

PROFESSOR: Rudolf Klimes, PhD

MODULES:

M1. Online Learning: Planning & Implementation,  L101
M2. Teaching Online: The pCAT Approach L103
M3. Online Discussion: Open Communication,  L105  

M4. Online Assignments: How to Write & Use them   L107
M5. Effective Outreach: Matching Needs and Group Plans, L110 
M6. Team Building: Developing Group Skills L201
M7.Mentor Skills: Effective Steps in HelpingL210
  
M8.Developing Trust to Serve Together L401

A test is under development.

 

K201, Forgiveness Studies: On Being Set Free

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. Describe the process of forgiveness and pardoning. b. Describe the determinants of forgiveness. c Identify the main issues in forgiveness.  d. Present plans for personal forgiveness under various circumstances.

PROFESSOR: Jay Draeger, MD.

MODULES:

M1 Forgiveness Therapy: Healing the Wrongs,   
M2  Without Revenge: Toward full Forgiveness
M3  Anger Management: Building Better Relationships,
M4
 Forgiveness Skills: One Step at a Time
M5  Forgive and Reconcile: Reunite the Estranged,
M6
 
Forgiving Attitude: A Way of Relating   
M7  Forgiveness Index: Classifying Situations,
M8
 Work-place Pardons: Why, When, How
M9  Values at Work: What is Most Important ,
M10  
Values for Decisions: Their Source and Use   

TEST: Click here to take the test online and make payment online.

K501, Health and Wellness: A Lifestyle Approach

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. Describe the process of disease prevention and wellness. b. Describe the determinants of common diseases. c Identify the main issues in disease prevention and wellness.  d. Present plans for personal disease prevention and wellness.  This course is identical to the college course Health Science 7661.

PROFESSOR: Rudolf Klimes, PhD, MPH.

MODULES:

M1 Improving my wellness,
M2 Improving my stress resistance,
M3  Improving my mental health and preventing depression
M4  Improving my fitness level,
M5 Improving my nutrition and weight control,  
M6 Improving my relationships and sex life,
M7 Improving my disease resistance,
M8 Drug abuse,  M9 Alcohol abuse  M10 Tobacco

TEST: Click here to take the test and make payment.

 

K601, Health Behavior: Habits that Heal

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. Describe the approaches to health behavior. b. Describe the determinants of common mental health problems. c Identify the main issues in health behavior and health psychology.  d. Present plans for personal health behavior.

MODULES: M1 Health Script: Dealing with Emotional Reactions ,
M2 Spiritual Health: Serving the Whole Person 
M3 Healing Mediation: A Way of Stress Reduction,
M4 Aging Safely: Self-care in a Healthy Environment
M5 Aging Well: Combating the Changes of Aging,
M6 Facing Loss: Healing of Acute Grief ,
M7
Bibliotherapy: Reading for Problem-solving  
M8 Healing Talk: Think, Talk and Act Health,
M9
Healing Humor: Laughter that Facilitates Wellness 
M10  Spiritual Care: Help in Distress

TEST: Click here to take the test online and make payment online.

K701, Disease Prevention: Living Healthier

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. Describe the approaches to disease prevention. b. Describe the determinants of disease prevention. c Identify the main issues in disease prevention and health behavior.  d. Present plans for personal disease prevention.

MODULES: M1 Cholesterol 160: How to lower your Cholestero
M2
Birthing Alternatives: Rewarding Birthing Experiences
M3 Anthrax Bioterrorism and Health Care
M4 Smallpox Epidemic:
Could you deal with it?

M5 Personal Safety: Minimizing your Accidents 
M6 Anorexia Nervosa: Symptoms and Treatment
M7 Healthy Eyes: Understanding Low Vision  
M8 Help with Addiction: A Brain Not on Drugs
M9 Prevention Values: Living DrugFree  
M10 Raising DrugFree Kids: A Values Approach

A test is under development.

 

K711, Drug Abuse Prevention: Living DrugFree

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, you will: a. Describe drug abuse. b. Describe the characteristics and affect of various harmful drugs, c. Identify the main issues in drug prevention and wellness, and d. Present plans for a drug prevention program. 

MODULES:

M1 Improving my wellness,
M2 Improving my stress resistance,
M3  Improving my mental health
M4  Drug abuse,  M5 Alcohol abuse  M6 Tobacco 
M7
Forgiveness Therapy: Healing the Wrongs,
M8 Help with Addiction: A Brain Not on Drugs 
M9 Prevention Values: Living DrugFree  
M10 Raising DrugFree Kids: A Values Approach

TEST: Click here to take the test online and make payment online.

 

K811: 3050: Basic Statistics: Descriptive Statistics and Sampling



K901, Certified Health Educator (CHE)

The CHE consists of the seven listed courses.

REQUIRED COURSES (above):

K501, Health and Wellness

K555, Alternative Medicine

K601, Health Behavior

K701, Disease Prevention

K711, Drug Abuse Prevention

K801, Learning Designs

K811, Basic Statistics.

DESCRIPTION: Take the above seven courses with their online tests. At the conclusion of your studies, mail the seven certificates to LearnWell, Box 944, Camino CA 95709 to receive your papers as Certified Health Educator (CHE). The CHE is not a state or professional association certificate. The Certificate will be issued by LearnWell Resources on the basis of the completion of the continuing education courses accredited by the various boards listed in www.learnwell.org/accreditation.htm


 Learning and Teaching: 3 CE Hours Short Courses  http://www.klimes.org/

 Online Learning: Planning & Implementation  L101
 Teaching Online: The pCAT Approach L103
 Online Discussion: Open Communication L105
 
Online Assignments: How to Write & Use them  L107
 Effective Outreach: Matching Needs and Group Plans 
L110
 Team Building: Developing Group Skills L201
 Mentor Skills: Effective Steps in Helping L210
 
 Developing Trust to Serve Together L401

 Popular Health Courses: 3 CE Hours Short Courses

  Wellness for Life: Enjoying Balanced Health H100
  Managing Stress: Dev Stress-Resistant Lifestyle H102
 
Help with Depression: Symptoms and Treatment H105
 
Food for Health: Nutrition/ Weight Management H211
  Aging Well: Combating the Changes of Aging  H702
 
Healing Humor: Laughter that Facilitates Wellness N101
  End-of-life Care: With Palliative Services N741

  Alcohol Problems: Prevent them, Treat them  D201
  Ethical Choices: How to Reason Ethically E101
  Health Care Ethics: Values, Obligations Right E105
 
Anger Management: Building Better Relationships F201


Online Basic Ethics Compliance Training for Institutions (OBEC)

  1. OBEC consists of M1, Ethical Choices: How to Reason Ethically. Explore it and see if it meets your needs.

  2. Email edu@learnwell with your request to offer M1 to your staff and tell us how many need this training (minimum 1000).

  3. When you want to start the program, you post-mail us a check for $2 per staff in Ethics Training for a 1-year period.

  4. LearnWell will then email you the URL where your staff can take M1 anytime online for a co-payment of 5$. After completing the course, they can print out their certificate on their computer. You may reimburse them for that payment upon submission of a copy of their certificate.

  5. The Online Ethics Compliance Training works in the same way as above but consists of three or more LearnWell Ethics Courses listed above under K101 with a per staff institutional payment of $2 for each course.


Basic Electronics, K401. A 42 lesson adult education course, J. Hutton. Complete the below form and pay $299 by iCheck.

Other online courses. Click here.

Please do not take the Tests at the beginning or end of each module, but take the test linked with the course on this page.

There are over 20,000 online books and other learning resources at the LearnWell Library.


Rudolf Klimes, PhD serves as President, Jay Draeger, MD, as Vice President.
 


After you finished this course, consider taking a related course.

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