The Michigan Department of Community Health, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI) is proud to announce: 

The Newborn Hearing Screening On-Line Training is now live!  Go to  http://learning.mihealth.org  to access the course. 

The goals of the course are to provide information on universal newborn hearing screening and to increase screener proficiency in all Michigan hospitals. Guidelines are given to accompany this on-line course with hands-on training.  This course is especially important for nurses, hearing screeners and managers of newborn hearing screening programs. 

• The on-line course includes 8 modules: 
• Introduction to Newborn Hearing Screening 
• The Ear and Hearing 
• Getting Ready to Screen 
• Newborn Hearing Screening Methods 
• Risk Indicators 
• Communicating Hearing Screen Results 
• Completing the Screening Process 
• Program Management 

2.0 Nurse Contact Hours are available for those Nurses and LPN's that successfully complete all of the modules with an 80% passing score on the post assessment. 

This continuing nursing education activity has been awarded 2.0 nurse contact hours by the Michigan Public Health Institute - Continuing Education Provider Unit (MPHI-CEPU).  MPHI-CEPU (OH#320, 6/1/13) is an approved provider by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBn-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. 

Course expires on 8-12-2013 

Planning committee members include Lorie Lang, M.A., Audiology Consultant, Michelle Garcia, AuD., Follow Up Consultant for the EHDI Program as well as Debra Behringer, RN, MSN, Nurse Consultant for Michigan Department of Community Health. 

* No content experts or members of the planning committee disclosed relationships with commercial interests relative to this educational activity. 

* No commercial support was received for this educational activity. 

* There will be no off-label uses of commercial products discussed during this program.