Dawid F. Prestini

University of Minnesota Robin Austin, MS, DNP, DC Clinical Associate Professor Nursing Teri Verner, DNP, RN,AHN-BC Graduate Faculty Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing,UMN This introductory course provides a framework for incorporating integrative therapies into your work with clients or patients. By the end of the course, you will be able to assess if integrative therapies are good options in specific situations, as well as educate patients and colleagues about benefits and risks. You will be confident discussing the evidence base for integrative therapies in general, with an understanding of some of the challenges of research in this area, and able to identify reliable sources of evidence-based information. You will leave with the skills to partner with patients or clients around use of these therapies and a plan to introduce integrative therapies in your work or other setting. Continuing Education Credit This course has been designed to meet Minnesota Board of Nu...

University of Minnesota  Janet Tomaino, DNP Associate Professor Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing This course provides an overview of essential oil therapy and current aromatherapy practices in clinical settings and gives you the skills to bring aromatherapy into your own practice. By the end of the course, you will be able to: a) explain what essential oils are to a patient and how they work; b) assess if an essential oil might be beneficial to a patient, considering patient preference and the research evidence, as well as any safety issues or contraindications; and c) suggest a protocol for use in a clinical setting. Continuing Education Credits This course has been designed to meet Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for 15 contact hours and may be eligible for CE credit from other professional boards that allow self-documenting of continuing education activities. It is your responsibility to check with your regulatory board to confirm t...

The Museum of Modern Art MoMA Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Christian Rattemeyer, Sean Anderson, Sophie Cavoulacos Completed by  Dawid F. Prestini March 29, 2021 Grade Achieved: 100.00% Certifies their successful completion of What Is Contemporary Art? What is contemporary art? In this course, you’ll consider this question through more than 70 works of art made between 1980 and the present, with a focus on art from the past decade. You’ll hear directly from artists, architects, and designers from around the globe about their creative processes, materials, and inspiration. Five themes serve as your guide: Media from Television to the Internet, Territories & Transit, Materials & Making, Agency, and Power. You’ll look at 3-D–printed glass and fiber sculptures, performances in a factory and a museum, painted portraits—as well as those made with artificial intelligence—and interventions into television and video games. And much more, all drawn from the collection of The Museum of...

University of Minnesota Susan Thompson, RN, DNP Teaching Faculty Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing In this course, you will learn how you can use imagery and imagery interventions to help with symptom management and healing, as well as to enhance overall health and wellbeing. You will experience a variety of imagery interventions and evaluate how they might be helpful in providing relief or enhancing quality of life. By the end of the course, you will know how to assess if guided imagery is appropriate in specific situations or with specific patients. You will be able to find and evaluate guided imagery scripts and recordings you might use. Most importantly, you will learn how to write and record effective guided imagery scripts of your own for specific needs at work or in your personal life. Continuing Education Credit This course has been designed to meet Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for 14.5 contact hours and may be eligible for CE...

Stanford Introduction to Food and Health - Stanford University Certificate Around the world, we find ourselves facing global epidemics of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and other predominantly diet-related diseases. To address these public health crises, we urgently need to explore innovative strategies for promoting healthful eating. There is strong evidence that global increases in the consumption of heavily processed foods, coupled with cultural shifts away from the preparation of food in the home, have contributed to high rates of preventable, chronic disease. In this course, learners will be given the information and practical skills they need to begin optimizing the way they eat. This course will shift the focus away from reductionist discussions about nutrients and move, instead, towards practical discussions about real food and the environment in which we consume it. By the end of this course, learners should have the tools they need to distinguish between foods that will support the...

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA Sarah Meister Curator, Department of Photography Completed by  Dawid F. Prestini March 29, 2021 7 weeks of study Grade Achieved: 100.00% Certifies their successful completion of Seeing Through Photographs Taking, sharing, and viewing photographs has become second nature for many of us. Given our near-constant engagement with images this course will help you dig into the meaning of pictures and reconsider photography’s role in our visual culture. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. In this course you will look closely at 100 photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, going behind the scenes of the Museum and into artist studios through original films and audio interviews. You will hear a variety of perspectives on the ways photography has been used throughout its 180-year history: as a me...

 Become a Marketing Coordinator Certificate Path A marketing coordinator helps the marketing department to run smoothly. Successful marketing coordinators are detail oriented and organized. Learn the skills necessary to thrive in this fast-paced job, from design to market research and digital marketing. This path assumes basic knowledge of administrative and professional communication skills, as covered in the Become an Administrative Professional learning path. COURSES: Marketing Foundations By: Drew Boyd Digital Marketing Foundations By: Brad Batesole Learning Web Analytics By: Matt Bailey Market Research Foundations By: Sarah Weise Social Media Marketing Foundations By: Brian Honigman Email and Newsletter Marketing Foundations By: Megan Adams Introduction to Graphic Design By: Tony Harmer Project Management Simplified By: Chris Croft Customer Service Foundations By: Jeff Toister

Shane Snow on Storytelling - Project Management Institute (PMI)® Shane Snow LinkedIn InfluencerJournalist and Cofounder of Contently   Storytelling is a powerful way to make people care about products, brands, and causes. It can facilitate sales, marketing, presentations, and about any other task that requires a human connection. LinkedIn Influencer and best-selling business author Shane Snow shares his approach to crafting compelling stories. Learn how to make people care with personal stories, brand stories, or any other kind of story—using the core elements of narrative and established storytelling frameworks. Find out how to maximize connections with your audience and create a culture of storytelling throughout your organization. Learning objectives The science of great stories The elements of effective storytelling Building relationships via storytelling Selling with storytelling Building and engaging audiences Using storytelling frameworks like the Ben Franklin method Project...

Repairing Your Reputation Certificate Lida Citroën International Branding Specialist We've all made mistakes. But a bad reputation can damage your career. Whether it's from a public faux pas, legal troubles, sabotage, or rumors, the damage can have long-lasting effects on your ability to work. Take control of the situation and learn how to repair a negative reputation. Get a three-step process to evaluate the damage, create a plan, and respond with focus. These techniques are ones that Lida Citroën uses at her reputation management firm, LIDA360, to help her own clients bounce back from bad press and regain their good name.

Advanced Branding Certificate Brad Batesole Marketing Thought Leader, Chief Learning Officer at Madecraft How deeply have you thought about your brand? Is it intentional, or just an afterthought? What does each component—your logo, your website, your service, and even your culture—say to customers? Advanced branding means thinking about what distinguishes your company from the rest, and incorporating it into every single touchpoint of the business: design, messaging, marketing and PR, and company vision. Learn what branding really is, how it works, and how you can build and maintain a more competitive brand, in this course with marketing expert Brad Batesole. Explore best practices for researching, developing, visualizing, and managing your brand, and learn about incorporating your brand throughout various customer touchpoints and keeping tabs on your brand as your company grows.

Branding Foundations Certificate Drew Boyd Global leader in creativity and innovation Strong, effective brands give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace and help you weather the storms of market competition. Whether you have an existing brand or you’re starting a new one from scratch, this course provides the tools and frameworks you need to build brand equity. Learn how to define your core values, link them to your brand, and launch and communicate the brand effectively, both internally to employees and externally via social media, PR, advertising, packaging, and other channels. Instructor Drew Boyd, a marketing expert with over three decades of experience, also explains how to measure brand performance and sustain its value and relevance over time.

Learn Social Media Monitoring Certificate Martin Waxman Communications Strategist, Digital Strategy and Social Media Educator Social media can provide your company with a wealth of information about what your customers—and competitors—really think about your organization. In this course, learn how to incorporate social listening in your organization's marketing strategy. Join digital and social media strategist Martin Waxman as he explains how to set up your social listening dashboard, tune into the right online conversations, and use social listening to discover insights that could lead to new products and opportunities. He also covers how to use social listening for customer service, as well as how to identify issues and crisis situations where your company's reputation may be at stake.

Writing a Press Release Certificate Andrea Holland PR Professional, Business Builder Learn how to write press releases: formal, official announcements regarding something new or significant about you or your business. Done correctly, press releases can promote your brand, distribute important information, and even improve your SEO. In this short writing course, PR expert Andrea Holland explains how to write an effective press release. She begins with a discussion of what press releases are and then walks you through finding your story, preparing to write, getting your headline and subhead down, crafting body copy, adding your boilerplate, and distributing the release through a newswire. Follow along using the handout Andrea has included with the course—a template she uses to kick-start the writing process for her own clients.

Crisis Comunication Certificata Laura Bergells Speaker, Community Builder Every organization needs to plan how to communicate internally and externally in the event of a crisis. In this course, business communication expert Laura Bergells walks you through the process of preparing your organization to communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, media, and the public at large. She'll cover identifying audiences, assembling a crisis response team, crafting an initial statement, and evaluating your response once the crisis has passed.

Marketing Communications Certificate Deirdre Breakenridge CEO at Pure Performance Communications In today's media landscape, consumers decide how and when they want to receive information. As a result, it's crucial for marketers to have a robust understanding of how to design and execute a marketing plan that resonates with audiences—as well as how to measure the results. In this course, learn how to chart your own marketing roadmap. Join marketing expert Deirdre Breakenridge as she explains how to research your marketing communication needs, craft a marketing plan that helps you connect with your audience, and leverage PR, social media, and email marketing strategies. Plus, she discusses how to launch your campaign, and track your program through a measurement dashboard.

Johns Hopkins University - 1 WEEK Morgan Katz, MD, MHS; Juliana Bilowich;Alice Bonner, PhD, RN; Robin Jump, MD, PhD; and Molly Nace, MPH SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, poses a high risk for assisted living communities due to residents’ age, health status, and communal living environment. The COVID-19 response has largely focused on nursing homes, leaving assisted living communities in the United States with fragmented guidance on how to respond to COVID-19 challenges. This course provides comprehensive instruction and resources for administrators and direct-care staff of assisted living communities. Learners will hear from experts about best practices to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks and promote well-being. Topics discussed include development of emergency preparedness plans, infection and outbreak prevention, staffing considerations, testing, and contact tracing. The course also covers strategies for communicating with stakeholders, promoting resident and staff well-being, ...

Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association  - 1 WK 2.0 AMA PRA 1 Credits TM Rishi Desai, MD, MPH Chief Medical Ofcer, Osmosis Infectious Disease Physician COVID-19 is a global pandemic that has already resulted in hundreds of thousands of infections and thousands of deaths, with many more anticipated. This course is a go-to resource that will be regularly updated with all of the current information put forth by the CDC, WHO, and other leading agencies and covers the basics, personal protective equipment, diagnostics, and other material. As a healthcare professional, you can earn CME credit and help to #RaiseTheLine by becoming prepared to treat COVID-19

Johns Hopkins University - 1 Week  Dr. Emily S. Gurley Associate Scientist Department of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health   The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing positions differ throughout the country and the world, with some new positions open to individuals with a high school diploma or equivalent. In this introductory course, students will learn about the science of SARS-CoV-2 , including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of COVID-19, and the evidence for how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person-to-person and why contact tracing can be such an effective public health intervention. Students will learn about how contact tracing is done, including how to build rapport with cases, identify their contacts, and support both cases and their contacts to stop transmission in the...

University of Toronto - 4 wks Course Professor Steve Joordens Department of Psychology University of Toronto Never in the history of humanity have so many people been feeling intense anxiety related to COVID-19 and the world it will leave in its wake. The intent of this course is to give you a deeper understanding of the anxiety reaction as it relates to various aspects of our current life, ranging from our consumption of news to the way we talk to our children about this. I will also give you clear strategies for managing and, in fact, turning off the anxiety response at least for short periods. My sincere hope is that you will leave this course with a better understanding of how your brain reacts to crises, along with some powerful tools for managing it before it manages you. University of Toronto Established in 1827, the University of Toronto is one of the world’s leading universities, renowned for its excellence in teaching, research, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as...

Public Relations Foundations: Media Training Certificate Deirdre Breakenridge CEO at Pure Performance Communications With traditional media outlets, 24-hour news sites, Twitter, and Facebook all competing for attention, getting your message broadcast—and received—the way you want can be tricky. In this course, PR expert Deirdre Breakenridge identifies the qualities of a good media spokesperson, what to expect from interactions with journalists, how to enhance your message with stats and sound bites, and how to cater your delivery and message to specific media channels and audiences. Watch the mock interview at the end of the course and see Deirdre's techniques and strategies in action.