Course Description
Home Care present many unique challenges for the rehab clinician. On of the biggest challenges is integrating the demands of Outcome Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data collection into the evaluation and treatment of orthopedic patients, especially now as both agencies and individual clinicians are being increasingly held accountable for improving OASIS outcomes.
This course is meant to make life easier for home care clinicians. It begins by by looking at how the typical clinical presentation of home care orthopedic patients lines up with varying OASIS items. The diagnoses covered include Total Hip Arthroplasy (THA), hip fracture with open reduction, internal fixation (ORIF), Total Knee Arthroplasy (TKA), vertebral compression fractures, lumbar stenosis, post-op lumbar decompression/fusion. This course teaches healthcare professionals to use the best objective tests and measures to accurately establish patient status at standard of care (SOC,) to outline the best evidence based treatment protocols to maximally improve the patient’s status, and to establish discharge timing and criteria to drive OASIS outcome improvement.
Clinicians who do not complete OASIS assessments will benefit greatly from this course as it provides a framework for how the care provided by all caregivers can and should be directed to yield best outcomes.
This Seminar-on-Demand is 4 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
 Contact Hours: 4 |
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 Target Audience: OT/COTA, PT/PTA |
Instructional Level: Intermediate |
Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Definition of OASIS
- Home care for total hip arthroplasty
- OASIS SOC and falls risk
- M2020 management of oral medications
- M1830 Bathing
- M1242 Frequency of pain interfering with patient's activity or movement
Hour 2
- Mechanotransduction
- Preventing Hospital Readmissions
- Home care and hip fractures
- Preventing infection
- Femoral neck fractures
- Intertrochanteric fractures
- OASIS SOC and falls risk
Hour 3
- Home care and TKA
- Demonstrative video
- Home care for vertrebral compression fractures
Hour 4
- Acute VCF and pain management
- Strengthening
- ADLs
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty
- Home care after lumbar spine surgery
- Spinal stenosis and extension
- AOSIS SOC after lumbar surgery
- Discharge planning
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional through a study of clinical and outcome assessments.
Professional Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the participant will be able to:
- List OASIS items that are tied to Publicly Reported Outcomes; identify how diagnosis specific musculoskeletal deficits influence scoring of OASIS at SOC
- Recognize the relevance of falls risk in determining OASIS SOC accuracy and how decreasing falls risk can improve outcomes at DC.
- Identify the typical clinical presentation of home care rehab patients with THA, hip fracture with ORIF, TKA, vertebral compression fractures, lumbar spine surgery patients and how to focus SOC and care planning for best clinical and OASIS outcomes.
- Cite evidence-based treatment methods to maximize clinical and OASIS outcomes and recognize how to incorporate these into patient care.
- Recognize the importance of preventing hospital readmission; cite the common reason(s) for readmission per diagnosis and how to possibly decrease readmission rates.
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.
Disclosures:
Contact Hours: 4
Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, and Occupational Therapist Assistant.
Instructional Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Course Type: Seminar-On-Demand
The course materials for this Seminar-On-Demand are available instantly in our online format.
Personnel Disclosure:
- Financial – Lorie Schleck is employed by Home Care PT and receives a salary. She receives royalty payments from HomeCEUConnection.com for the presentation of this course.
- Nonfinancial – No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
- No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service.
Authors:
Lorie Schleck, PT
Lorie Schleck has over 29 years of Physical Therapy experience. Recently she has focused on providing physical therapy to home care patients. Within that context, she worked for a time in Home Care Quality and Compliance where she audited charts for OASIS and clinical accuracy and provided staff training in best practices for OASIS accuracy. She is a certified OASIS specialist.
Lorie has been a physical therapy continuing education instructor, mainly on topics related to orthopedic physical therapy. Her instruction style is characterized by its emphasis on clinical relevance. She has also written several home study courses in physical therapy. She works hard to integrate the latest empirical evidence in to a practical approach to clinical practice.
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