Course Description
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. 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.
Contact Hours: 2
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: IntermediateAccreditation Information:
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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
Course 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.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify three differences between pill and food swallowing
- Identify contrast characteristics of liquid medications, pill and tablets and capsules
- Select three strategies to improve medication administration in individuals exhibiting care resistant behaviors
- Identify three possible effects of medications on swallow function
- Select three strategies to improve safety of medication administration in their facilities
Disclosures:
WEBINAR
A webinar is LIVE INTERACTIVE audio and video course delivered over the Internet to your computer. With a HomeCEU webinar, you are able to see, hear and interactive with the course presenter. In many courses, demonstrative video will be used to further enhance your learning experience. All content used in the presentation will also be made available to you for your personal use (PowerPoint Slides, Reference Materials etc.).
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
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: The successful completion of a post course examination is required to receive credit for your webinar participation. A score of 70% or higher is required. You will have additional attempts to pass the examination should it be needed.
PLEASE NOTE: All webinar exams MUST be successfully completed by midnight Central Standard Time on the day of the webinar broadcast.
This course is offered for 0.20 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Angela Mansolillo employed by Cooley Dickinson Hospital and receives a salary. She receives payment from Colibri Healthcare, LLC 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
Authors:
Angela Mansolillo, MA/CCC-SLP
Angela Mansolillo is a Speech-Language Pathologist and board recognized specialist in swallowing disorders who has worked in a variety of clinical settings. She brings over twenty years of experience with children with dysphagia to her teaching. Her dynamic, interactive style, coupled with her ability to present complex material in a meaningful, practical way, enables her course participants to arm themselves with new successful strategies to apply immediately.
Angela is currently a Senior Speech-Language Pathologist at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in western Massachusetts. In addition, she serves as adjunct faculty and clinical supervisor at Elms College. She has provided numerous regional and national presentations, and has served as guest lecturer at several colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts. Angela holds a Master of Arts from the University of Connecticut.
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