Olson Center Webinar Series
This series is a recent addition to the educational offerings from the Olson Center. This program is a collaboration with the UNMC College of Nursing and presentation topics are intended to reach primarily a nursing audience (with continuing education provided), however, anyone is welcome to attend. Live presentations are attended via an online video platform (Zoom) and the recorded presentations are available on this page.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Continuing Nursing Education is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
If you missed previous webinar(s), you can view them here. If you are a nurse interested in receiving nursing credit for the Olson Center/ College of Nursing Webinars, please follow the link by each webinar.
Webinar Offerings
- Taking Charge of Your Brain at Any Age: It's Never Too Late!
- Huntington’s Disease: Current Approaches and Future Directions
- Exploring the Topic of Food Insecurity in Nebraska
- Nutritional Needs of Breastfed Babies from Birth to Weaning
- Genitourinary Syndrome of the Menopause and Vulvar Disorders
- Pharmacologic & Exercise Approaches to Managing Bone Loss
- Decreasing Compassion Fatigue in the Workplace: Journey to Compassion Satisfaction for Healthcare Workers
- The Wonderful World of the Placenta: How it Works, What Can Go Wrong, and Using Nanomedicines to Fix It
- Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
- Melatonin: Exploring the Physiology, Function and Over-the-Counter Use
- Mental Health and the Energy of Words: It's Imperative to Transform the Narrative
- Skin Cancer in Women
"Taking Charge of Your Brain at Any Age: It’s Never Too Late!"
Diane K. Hendricks, LCSW, UNMC Dept. of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology
Tues., October 8, 2024, 12 – 1 p.m. (CDT)
- Use this link if you would like to watch the lecture for no continuing education credit.
- Use this link if you are a nurse wishing to watch the lecture and receive credit for 1 contact hour at no charge. This link will be available until November 3, 2025.
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"Huntington’s Disease: Current Approaches and Future Directions"
Amy Hellman, MD, UNMC College of Medicine, Dept. of Neurological Sciences
Tues., August 13, 2024
- Use this link if you would like to watch the lecture for no continuing education credit.
- Use this link if you are a nurse wishing to watch the lecture and receive credit for 1 contact hour at no charge. This link will be available until September 3, 2025.
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"Exploring the Topic of Food Insecurity in Nebraska"
Natalia Santos, MPH (PhD Candidate), UNMC College of Public Health, Dept. of Health Promotion
Tues., May 14, 2024
- Use this link if you would like to watch the lecture for no continuing education credit.
- Use this link if you are a nurse wishing to watch the lecture and receive credit for 1 contact hour at no charge. This link will be available until May 31, 2025.
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“Nutritional Needs of Breastfed Babies from Birth to Weaning"
Laura Wilwerding, MD, IBCLC, FAAP, FABM, Naturally Healthy Kids, LLC and UNMC Dept. of Pediatrics (adjunct professor)
Tues., April 9, 2024
- Use this link if you would like to watch the lecture for no continuing education credit.
- Use this link if you are a nurse wishing to watch the lecture and receive credit for 1 contact hour at no charge. This link will be available until April 30, 2025.
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“Genitourinary Syndrome of the Menopause and Vulvar Disorders"
Jennifer L. Cera, RN, DNP, WHNP-BC, APRN-NP, Olson Center for Women’s Health Urogynecology and Pelvic Medicine, and UNMC College of Nursing Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program
Tues., Nov. 7, 2023
- Use this link if you would like to watch the lecture for no continuing education credit.
- Use this link if you are a nurse wishing to watch the lecture and receive credit for 1 contact hour at no charge. This link will be available until Nov. 30, 2024.
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“Pharmacologic & Exercise Approaches to Managing Bone Loss”
Laura Bilek, PT, PhD, UNMC College of Allied Health Professions
Lynn Mack, MD, UNMC Dept of Internal Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism
Tues., Aug 8, 2023
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“Decreasing Compassion Fatigue in the Workplace: Journey to Compassion Satisfaction for Healthcare Workers”
Amy Mead, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, Nebraska Medicine Emergency Department, main campus
Tues., May 9, 2023
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"The Wonderful World of the Placenta: How it Works, What Can Go Wrong, and Using Nanomedicines to Fix It"
Lynda K. Harris, PhD, UNMC Dept. of OB-GYN
Tues., Feb. 14, 2023
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"Abnormal Uterine Bleeding"
Karen Carlson, MD, UNMC Dept. of OB-GYN
Tues., Nov. 8, 2022
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"Melatonin: Exploring the Physiology, Function and Over-the-Counter Use"
Alyson Hanish, PhD, MSN, RN (UNMC College of Nursing)
Tues., Aug. 9, 2022
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"Mental Health and the Energy of Words: It's Imperative to Transform the Narrative"
Havalynn Russell, CPSS (Nebraska Medicine Psychiatry Emergency Services Unit)
Tues., May 10, 2022
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"Skin Cancer in Women"
Melodi Javid Whitley, MD, PhD, FAAD (UNMC Department of Dermatology)
Tues., Feb. 8, 2022