Drug And Alcohol Use Disorders In Healthcare Environments For Medical Managers And Supervisors

60% of the people battling drug or alcohol use disorders have jobs, including medical jobs in the healthcare environment. Fortunately, there are ways healthcare managers and supervisors can help create and maintain a drug and alcohol-free healthcare workplace, which is the purpose of this course.

Acknowledging how managers need to respect their employees’ private lives, this course reminds managers and supervisors that an employee with an alcohol or drug problem can have a strong negative impact throughout the workplace. Once learners are shown the importance of recognizing a substance use disorder and how to do so, they are motivated to absorb the rest of the information this course provides. Upon completion of the seven topics in this course ranging from How Substance Use Disorders Can Affect Healthcare Environments and Laws You Need to Know About to The Role Of Education And Testing and Handling Substance Use Disorder Situations, learners are well equipped to recognize, deal with, and mitigate substance use disorders throughout their healthcare workplace.

Utilize this course so all medical managers and supervisors understand substance use disorders, know their negative effects on their employees and environment, and know what they can do to help deal with it.

   This course is in the Video On Demand format, to read about Video On Demand features click here.

Medical Managers and Supervisors in healthcare environments

• Introduction
• How Substance Use Disorders Can Affect Healthcare Environments
• What Substances Are Commonly Misused?
• Laws You Need To Know About
• Creating A Drug And Alcohol-Free Workplace
• The Role Of Education And Testing
• Recognizing On-The-Job Substance Use Disorders
• Handling Substance Use Disorder Situations
• Conclusion

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