Video
Instructional Level: Intermediate

Accreditation Information:

Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • Normal swallow variability
  • Pill swallowing
  • Dysphagia and pill swallowing
  • Pill esophagitis
  • Medication types
  • Dysphagia and medication administration

Hour 2

  • Medication errors
  • Impact of food, thickening agents
  • Legal issues in medication administration
  • Cognition and medication administration
  • Medication types and their impact on swallow function
  • Xerostomia
  • Medications that improve swallowing
  • Ordering/Prescribing
  • Transcribing and Verifying
  • Dispensing and Delivering
  • Administering
  • Monitoring and Reporting
  • Compensatory strategies
  • Direct interventions 

Author

Angela Mansolillo, MA/CCC-SLP

Dysphagia and Medication Administration: A Hard Pill to Swallow

Dysphagia and Medication Administration: A Hard Pill to Swallow

2 Hours Instructional Level: Intermediate
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$33

Description:

Dysphagia clinicians are often faced with the challenge of working with individuals who have difficulty swallowing medications and are frequently asked to identify strategies to facilitate safe and efficient pill swallowing, often without an understanding of medication formulations or effects.  This course will provide participants with information about how pill swallowing affects normal swallow physiology and the impact on people with dysphagia.   Medication formulations will be reviewed and strategies for safe swallowing will be provided. Legal implications of altering medications such as crushing tablets, opening capsules, or adding thickeners will be reviewed.   Participants will be provided with strategies for improving safe medication administration and reducing medication administration errors in the dysphagia population. 

Full Course Description
Dysphagia clinicians are often faced with the challenge of working with individuals who have difficulty swallowing medications and are frequently asked to identify strategies to facilitate safe and efficient pill swallowing, often without an understanding of medication formulations or effects.  This course will provide participants with information about how pill swallowing affects normal swallow physiology and the impact on people with dysphagia.   Medication formulations will be reviewed and strategies for safe swallowing will be provided....

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional on the ability to identify potential impacts of medications on swallowing function, impact of drug modifications including use of thickening agents, and strategies to improve medication administration in individuals with dysphagia.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify three differences between pill and food swallowing
  2. Identify contrast characteristics of liquid medications, pill and tablets and capsules
  3. Select three strategies to improve medication administration in individuals exhibiting care resistant behaviors
  4. Identify three possible effects of medications on swallow function
  5. Select three strategies to improve safety of medication administration in their facilities

 

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional on the ability to identify potential impacts of medications on swallowing function, impact of drug modifications including use of thickening agents, and strategies to improve medication administration in individuals with dysphagia.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify three differences between pill and food swallowing
  2. Identify contrast characteristics of liquid medications, pill and tablets and capsules
  3. Select three strategies to improve medication administration in individuals exhibiting care resistant behaviors
  4. Identify three possible effects of medications on swallow function
  5. Select three strategies to improve safety of medication administration in their facilities

 

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Speech Language Pathologist, Nurses

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

ACHA CE Approved Provider 

This course is offered for 0.20 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).

Please note - ASHA reporting closes at the end of each month, with completions reported around or after the 15th of the following month.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Angela Mansolillo employed by Cooley Dickinson Hospital and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Speech Language Pathologist, Nurses

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

ACHA CE Approved Provider 

This course is offered for 0.20 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).

Please note - ASHA reporting closes at the end of each month, with completions reported around or after the 15th of the following month.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Angela Mansolillo employed by Cooley Dickinson Hospital and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service