Training Health Care Providers on Senior Substance Abuse

描述（由申请人提供）：物质滥用和精神健康服务管理局和美国医学协会认为，在老年人中酗酒是一种流行病。由于使用家庭保健的老年人数量正在迅速增长，因此家庭保健专业人员必须了解其患者的饮酒情况及其潜在的负面影响。拟议的第一阶段SBIR项目的目标是开发一个综合、互动、多媒体护理继续教育（CE）课程（老年人的酒精使用和滥用），增加筛查工具（Elderscreen），为家庭保健护士提供知识、工具和技能，以评估其老年患者的酒精使用/滥用情况，并作出适当的转介。为了维持他们的执照，许多州的护士都被要求获得CE学分，这给了这种产品很大的商业潜力。在第一阶段，Danya建议开发在线护理CE课程，并附带筛查工具和酒精说明书。在线护理CE课程将在第一阶段进行测试前/测试后可行性试点测试评估。在第二阶段，我们将开发课程的补充材料，包括案例研究视频和在线资源中心网站，并对在线护理CE课程进行全面评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the American Medical Association suggest that there is an epidemic of alcohol abuse among the elderly. Since the number of elderly using home healthcare is a rapidly growing, it is important for home health care professionals to be aware of alcohol use by their patients and of the potential negative effects of this use. The goal of the proposed Phase I SBIR Project is to develop an integrated, interactive, multimedia nursing continuing education (CE) course (Alcohol Use and Abuse in the Elderly) add screening instrument (Elderscreen) to provide home healthcare nurses with knowledge, tools, and skills to assess their senior patients for alcohol use/abuse and make appropriate referrals. To maintain their licensing, nurses in many states are required to take CE credits, which gives this product great commercial potential. In Phase I, Danya proposes to develop the online nursing CE course with accompanying screening instrument and Alcohol Fact sheets. The online nursing CE course will undergo a pre-test/post-test feasibility pilot test evaluation during Phase I. In Phase II, we will develop supplemental materials to the course including a Case Study Video and Online Resource Center Website, and a full-scale evaluation of the online nursing CE course will be conducted.