Motivational Interviewing for Busy Clinicians: Transform Brief Patient Interactions to Promote Behavior Change
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2.0 CE creditsCompletion Time
2 hours, 4 minutesAvailable Until
December 31, 2025Posted By
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Clinical Topics
Patient OutcomesHave you felt frustrated and out of ideas for helping patients make healthy lifestyle changes? Do you feel like you repeat yourself at every visit with little progress? You’re not alone. Many healthcare professionals share this challenge. If you could guide patients toward meaningful change, you know it would transform their lives.
Diabetes, heart disease, and obesity remain top causes of death and disability. As clinicians, helping patients address modifiable risk factors can dramatically lower their risk of illness and injury. But while many patients know what to do, they struggle to act. Is it lack of motivation, fear, low confidence, or competing priorities?
Imagine having more effective conversations that uncover patients’ reasons for change and inspire action.
Using Motivational Interviewing (MI) can feel overwhelming with time constraints and packed visits. In this course, you’ll discover practical strategies to integrate MI into your daily practice. Learn how even brief encounters can help patients take steps toward healthier choices and lasting improvements in their well-being.
Learning Objectives
- Determine how MI can help their patients with healthy behavior change.
- Demonstrate key MI fundamental skills.
- Identify patient situations/problems where MI might be helpful.
- Plan for ways to integrate an MI approach into routine patient visits.
Speakers
Karen LeRoy is a family nurse practitioner specializing in primary care. She has 20+ years of nursing experience in a wide variety of settings, including telemetry, medical-surgical, primary care, physical rehabilitation and behavioral health research. As a current primary care provider, she strives to motivate and empower her patients to make healthy lifestyle choices to improve their health and reduce their risk of illness, injury and disease. NP LeRoy is also an independent motivational interviewing trainer and has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2020. In her 15+ years of experience with behavioral health research, she utilized motivational interviewing to help clients with behavior change in areas such as weight management, smoking cessation, and substance misuse. NP LeRoy grew up in a military family and is also an Air Force Veteran. She spent most of her growing up years in San Antonio, TX where she resides today. When not working in the clinic or training MI, she can be found hanging out with her husband and two teenagers serving in ministries together, watching movies, and enjoying an occasional sweet treat from Sonic.
CE Information
This activity offers 2.0 CE credits to attendees.
Accredited by ANCC, ACCME.
Credit eligibility by state, board, and more information can be found here: Motivational Interviewing for Busy Clinicians: Transform Brief Patient Interactions to Promote Behavior Change
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