Acupuncture Safety
This engaging, animated course will provide CEU credits in the Safety category, as required by NCCAOM. You will learn and develop valuable and necessary safety rules as they apply to acupuncture and adjunctive acupuncture applications.
Acupuncture Safety Content Outline: CNT and Infection Control – detail Disease transmission prevention, Hygiene and Sterilization, Sanitary workspace, mitigating the transmission of common transmissible diseases and bloodborne pathogens.
Safe Needling practices – avoiding vital structures – case study on emphysema patient and lung placement, thus preventing pneumothorax, cancer patients and gua sha
Patient Assessment and contraindications – collecting patient history, pregnancy, bleeding disorders, infection and wounds – case study DVT
patient, mental disorder case study
Adverse event management – stocking your clinic, emergency response steps index card, vasovagal reactions
Acupuncture Safety Content Outline: CNT and Infection Control – detail Disease transmission prevention, Hygiene and Sterilization, Sanitary workspace, mitigating the transmission of common transmissible diseases and bloodborne pathogens.
Safe Needling practices – avoiding vital structures – case study on emphysema patient and lung placement, thus preventing pneumothorax, cancer patients and gua sha
Patient Assessment and contraindications – collecting patient history, pregnancy, bleeding disorders, infection and wounds – case study DVT
patient, mental disorder case study
Adverse event management – stocking your clinic, emergency response steps index card, vasovagal reactions
2 CEU Credits/ $40
NCCAOM Approved
Course Objectives
Explore This 2-credit ceu acupuncture safety course reviews the NCBAHM subtopics required for ensuring the profession is held to the highest standards of acupuncture safety. The course provides an overview of clean needle and infection control techniques, patient screening and management, safety precautions for specific points and populations, adverse event management, and legal and ethical considerations. In each sub-topic, this course delves deeper into specific situations to prepare practitioners for a step-by-step approach to ensure safety is a top concern, and with careful planning and foresight, issues are mitigated and transformed into a positive and forward-looking outcome. Populations addressed: mental, cancer care, and lung disorders.
Use 1. identify the basics of CNT and Infection control while navigating
best practices within their unique office space.
2. navigate the initial screening process of a potential patient to identify the practitioner's ability to adequately treat the patient's concerns. The practitioner needs to have a plan in place to ensure patient and practitioner safety.
3. identify needle safety in special patient populations.
4. develop a step-by-step plan in treating adverse events should they arise.
2. navigate the initial screening process of a potential patient to identify the practitioner's ability to adequately treat the patient's concerns. The practitioner needs to have a plan in place to ensure patient and practitioner safety.
3. identify needle safety in special patient populations.
4. develop a step-by-step plan in treating adverse events should they arise.
Understand 1.
The student must understand that self-care is tantamount to acupuncture safety.
2. The student must understand that patients undergoing care for the treatment of cancer require special care to ensure safety.
3. Patients with a history of lung issues or smoking may have indications for the practitioner to alter needling specific points located above lung structures.
4. Patients with mental disorders must be assessed by the practitioner to determine if the practitioner is equipped and trained to accommodate what this patient population may need.
5. The basics of acupuncture safety are reviewed with real-life examples, and the practitioner will learn and review CNT and other practice standards.
6. A step-by-step guide is presented for practitioners to have ready at their fingertips protocols to do in case of emergency.
2. The student must understand that patients undergoing care for the treatment of cancer require special care to ensure safety.
3. Patients with a history of lung issues or smoking may have indications for the practitioner to alter needling specific points located above lung structures.
4. Patients with mental disorders must be assessed by the practitioner to determine if the practitioner is equipped and trained to accommodate what this patient population may need.
5. The basics of acupuncture safety are reviewed with real-life examples, and the practitioner will learn and review CNT and other practice standards.
6. A step-by-step guide is presented for practitioners to have ready at their fingertips protocols to do in case of emergency.
Course Lessons
Meet the instructor
Carol Goldman DACM, LOm., Dipl. Ac.(NCCAOM), C.P., L.Ac, MS
Carol Goldman is an experienced academic leader, tax-exempt management professional, and clinician whose multidisciplinary career spans higher education, healthcare, nonprofit advocacy, and corporate finance. Since 2018, she has served at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies as Program Director, DEI Chair, CEU Director, Herb Club Director, and Title IX Coordinator, where she oversees academic program design, curriculum development, compliance, and student-success initiatives, while also managing budgets, grants, and the Institute’s international CEU learning platform. She brings additional academic experience from Pacific College of Health and Science, where she advised doctoral candidates, developed coursework, and taught in the T-DAcCHM/DAC program. Carol also contributes to global humanitarian efforts through her long-standing work with the African Human Rights Coalition, supporting finance operations, fund development, and grant-based educational initiatives. Earlier in her career, she held senior tax leadership roles, including Director of Taxation for Amerimar Enterprises and Tax Manager for Ernst & Young, specializing in real estate and tax-exempt organizations. A licensed acupuncturist and former hospital-based clinician, she holds a BS in Accounting, an MS in Counseling Psychology, and a Doctorate in Acupuncture and East Asian Herbal Medicine. Her service includes board roles with the Parkinson’s Foundation (Philadelphia Chapter) and the Acupuncture of Pennsylvania Association.
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