Transitioning Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disability to Adult Care

1.5 NAPNAP Contact Hours. This continuing education activity is free. This continuing education activity was developed for pediatric nurses and nurse practitioners who provide care to youth with special health care needs. The collaborators for this CE activity will address the important process of transitioning youth with intellectual and developmental disorders from a child-centered health care model to an adult-focused approach for meeting their continued special health needs.

This course is part of a series of courses delivered in partnership with the Special Olympics on the topic of intellectual and developmental disability.
To learn more about this topic and earn more free CE, visit Prescribing Considerations For Children With Intellectual Disabilities And Developmental Disabilities and Navigating Special Education Services for Children with Developmental Or Intellectual Disabilities

Important: This continuing education activity is free. Please contact the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners national office at (877) 662-7627 to request assistance if needed.

Participants are forbidden to reproduce, republish, redistribute, or resell this course in any other form. For copyright-related questions, please email your question to: ce@napnap.org.

Copyright © 2021 by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.

This continuing education activity is administered by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) as an Agency providing continuing education credit. Individuals who complete this program and earn a 70% or higher score on the posttest will be awarded 1.5 NAPNAP contact hours, of which 0 is pharmacology content.

Participants are forbidden to reproduce, republish, redistribute, or resell this course in any other form. For copyright-related questions, please email your question to: ce@napnap.org

The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner discloses that this work is supported by Special Olympics through cooperative agreement #NU27DD001156 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The contents are the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Special Olympics or the CDC.”
 

Target Audience

Pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, using the course’s content, learners will be able to:

  • Define the six elements of transition for individuals with an intellectual/developmental disability to adult care.
  • Describe various strategies utilized in the transitioning an individual with intellectual/developmental disability to adult care. 
  • Develop a transition plan for an individual with intellectual and developmental disability in an inter-professional and collaborative environment.

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 Contact hours
Course opens: 
03/11/2021
Course expires: 
12/31/2023
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

Amee Moreno MSN, APRN, CPNP - PC/AC
Beth Morton DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC
Cindy Hill DNP, RN, CPN
Jane Tobias DNP, CPNP-PC
Julie LaMothe DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE
Kathleen Kent, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC

DISCLOSURE OF SUPPORT DISCLOSURE OF SUPPORT DISCLOSURE OF SUPPORT

• The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner discloses that this work is supported by Special Olympics through cooperative agreement #NU27DD001156 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The contents are the responsibility of (CDC). The contents are the responsibility of (CDC). The contents are the responsibility of (CDC). The contents are the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Special Olympics or the CDC.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 Contact hours

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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