Course Description:

Ethical decision making, specifically with the aging population, is a hot topic in therapy professions. This course will review principles of Bioethics and how they apply to everyday practice. Case studies will be utilized to provide additional opportunities for analysis.

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Use of antipsychotic medications in patients with dementia can have deadly consequences. In this session, therapists will learn techniques and strategies to mitigate negative behaviors in patients with dementia, reducing the perceived need for antipsychotics.

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How do I help the patient with dementia be successful at mealtime? That is the question many healthcare practitioners may ask themselves. This course will provide interventions and suggestions for therapists, nursing staff, and families with a focus on improving patient quality of life. Functional suggestions can be implemented quickly into daily practice.

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Interdisciplinary teams focus on the big picture of patient care, facilitating a shared purpose and focus on quality. This session will discuss an interdisciplinary approach to working with patients who have dementia. Models of disability, team building, and examples of staff education will be reviewed. Participants will leave the course with strategies they can immediately implement in their work environments.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic has created a “new normal” for patients in post-acute and residential care settings, as well as the clinicians who works with those patients. This course will identify the potential effects of COVID related disease, social isolation, and cognitive loss for patients recovering from the virus. Specific systems, objective measurements, and mitigation strategies will be reviewed. 

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way healthcare practitioners function on a day-to-day basis, as well as provided unique challenges for aging adults in communities and residential care. This course will discuss the unique challenges to cognition that have been discovered through the pandemic, along with evidence-based treatment strategies to mitigate pandemic-related cognitive decline.

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The purpose of this course is to provide practitioners with foundational knowledge of dementia, including stages of decline and symptoms of those stages. Assessment, analysis, and effective documentation will also be a focus of this educational experience.    

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The purpose of this introductory level course is to provide healthcare practitioners with basic knowledge of dementia, including types, stages of decline, salient characteristics, related to clinical presentation.

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This course is intended for therapists who care for patients with dysphagia in skilled nursing facilities.  It discusses the principles of neuroplasticity that guide dysphagia therapy.  It also gets back to the basics of therapeutic strategies- compensatory, rehabilitative, and diet modifications.  The evidence-based behind strategies will be clear and easy to understand. 

Course Description:

This course provides attendees with a comprehensive overview and hands-on practice in skilled documentation. It will take a deep dive into how to take common unskilled terminology and correctly correct into meaningful, skilled documentation. Diagnosis coding, treatment types, and note-writing will be the clinical focus of this session. 

Course release date: 7/1/2024

Course Overview

Everyone has heard the word ethics, yet some may not understand how ethics applies to practice in their current work setting. This course will examine the constructs of ethics in the elderly population, using a functional, case studies–based approach. This course is taught by a practicing clinician with over 20 years of insight, with real-life examples and insight into ethical dilemmas.