Rural Health Education Parnership

The Rural Health Education Partnership (RHEP) works to develop, coordinate, and distribute quality educational programs to health care workers. Courses are offered to meet the needs of professionals who must continually attend training in order to maintain their licenses.

Benefits include:

Development of a comprehensive, structured education plan
Accessible training for staff, resulting in reduced travel costs
Reduction of duplicated offerings in the region, reducing overall training costs
Access to a pool of educators qualified to meet the needs of your professional staff
Opprotunities to partner on grant applications to fund training

South Central Iowa Area Health Education Center (SC AHEC)

The SC AHEC serves the southern Iowa counties of Marion, Mahaska, Keokuk, Monroe, Wapello, Jefferson, Appanoose, Davis, and Van Buren. The long-term goal of the SC AHEC is to increase access to healthcare in rural and under-served areas, by addressing three primary focus areas:

Increase awareness and interest in
health & sciences for students in grades K–12;
Coordinate preceptor opportunities for college students studying in their field of expertise;
Coordinate continuing education for current healthcare providers.

For more information, please view our AHEC Brochure
and visit the Area Health Education Center website.

AHEC K–12 Lessons and Programs (for teachers)

Contact

Lori Reeves, Department Chair
email:
phone: (641) 683-5337 or (800) 726-2585, ext. 5337

Certificate Programs

RHEP offers a variety of certificate programs in health occupations fields:
RHEP Certificate Programs

Events

Review of the Sentinel Event Alert: Preventing Maternal Death — Are You Ready?
Friday, September 17, 2010: Julie Zimmerman MSN, RNC presents this class intended for nurses and other interested health care providers responsible for the management and care of laboring, delivering, and postpartum patients. This course is a review and plan for the Sentinel Event Alert: Preventing Maternal Death, review the laboring and immediate postpartum patients risk and physiology regarding hemorrhage and hypertensive disorders.
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Social Workers’ Ethics
Friday, October 8, 2010: This program presented by Dr. Kathy Murray will provide information and discussion of the ethical issues commonly encountered by social workers. The class will examine the values and ethics needed to fulfill the standards of the ethical practice of social workers and meets requirements for social worker license renewal.

Kinesio Taping 1 and 2
Friday and Saturday, October 8 and 9, 2010: The KT1 course is designed to introduce practitioners to the Kinesio Taping Method®. KT2- Advanced Concepts and Corrective Techniques The KT2 course builds on material learned in KT1.
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No Such Thing as a Bad Kid — presented by Charlie Appelstein
Friday, October 22, 2010: Understanding and Responding to At-Risk Children and Youth Using a Strength-Based Approach.
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EMS NREMT Refresher Course
Mondays, See Dates/Topics Below: For Paramedics, this series of classes when combined with an ACLS renewal class of at least 6.0 CEH’s and a PALS Renewal, PEEP or PEPP course of at least 6.0 CEHs, will meet all requirements for NREMT renewal through the “continuing education topical hours” option for renewal.
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Nov. 22 — Medical
Nov. 29 — Airway
Dec. 06 — Prep/Ops,AMLS
Dec. 13 — Trauma
Dec. 20 — Air/Circ/Cardiac, Trauma
Jan. 10 — OB/Peds
Jan. 17 — Air/Circ/Cardiac, Trauma
Jan. 24 — Air/Circ/Cardiac, Medical, Ops
Jan. 31 — OB/Peds

Course Offerings

Courses and other news and information can be found in the latest RHEP/AHEC Newsletter & Course Catalog:
RHEP/AHEC Newsletter & Course Catalog

Courses By Subject Area: Select one of the topics below to see the continuing education courses currently offered in that subject area. Registration instructions are included on each course's information page.

Select a subject area below to see course information in that area:
Emergency Medical Services
Firefighters
Funeral Directors
Long Term Care Department Heads
Nursing
Nursing Home Administrators
Nursing Short Term Certificate Programs
Physical Therapist / Occupational Therapist / Physical Therapist Assistant
Residential Care Administrators
Respiratory Care
Social Workers

How to request that your course/program be added to the RHEP schedule

To request approval for a course/program to be added to the RHEP schedule for continuing education units/hours toward relicensure of health care workers, please follow the process described in the document below:
RHEP Continuing Education Program Approval Process

RHEP Members

RHEP has partners from throughout the area and beyond: RHEP Member Listing