Course Description
This dynamic course will include statistics which depict the growing complexity of our current and future, to include diagnostic categories with the highest hospital readmission rates. The session will then focus on sharing tools and innovative strategies for success in the post-acute setting.
These proactive and comprehensive monitoring systems are developed to prevent exacerbations and hospital readmissions. The tools and resources offered in this session will be most helpful to assist all levels of staff for the skilled nursing facilities, assisted living and residential care facilities.
This seminar-on-demand is 1 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Contact Hours: 1 
Target Audience: 
Instructional Level: Intermediate Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Symptoms of importance of HF to assess and monitor, per stage
- Evidence based monitoring systems most significant to Heart Failure.
- Nursing priorities to care plan for Heart Failure
- Symptoms of significance, to include how they may differ in males and females
- Critical Timing and treatments for AMI.
- Care plan activity intolerance levels per patient with AMI
- Managing risk for excess fluid volume.
- Research-based review of the co-morbidities with Pulmonary Disease.
- Symptoms most critical to assess and monitor throughout acute and post-acute stay.
- Systems critical to managing the ineffective airway clearance.
- Nursing priorities to prevent complications
- Research based recommendations to decrease infection risk, following joint replacements
- Address impaired physical mobility and maintain affected joint in prescribed position and body in alignment
- Manage risks for peripheral neurovascular dysfunction
- Evidence based practices for managing acute pain
- Review of each level and monitoring systems of the INTERACT tools for post-acute care
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- Stop and Watch Tool
- Care Path Tool
- SBAR Tool
- Interdisciplinary follow-up communication is critical at all levels.
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on tools and stradgies to reduce hospital readmission.
Professional Objectives:
- List 3 strategies to reduce readmissions of residents with Heart Failure (HF).
- List 3 strategies to reduce readmissions of residents with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI).
- List 3 strategies to reduce readmissions of residents with Pulmonary Disease (e.g., COPD & Pneumonia).
- List 3 strategies to reduce readmissions of residents with joint replacements (e.g., Total Hip Arthroplasty-THA & Total Knee Arthroplasty-TKA
- Describe how communication and monitoring programs can be effective to prevent all hospital readmissions.
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: 1
Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist and Nursing
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Course Type: Seminar-on-demand
The course materials for this webinar are available in our online format.
This course is offered for 0.10 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Lisa Milliken is employed by Windsor Rehab and receives a salary. She receives royalty payments from HomeCEUConnection.com 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.
Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact Anne Osborn by email Anne@HomeCEU or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
Authors:
Lisa Milliken, MA, CCC-SLP
Lisa Young Milliken, MA, CCC, FNAP, CDP received her master's degree from The University of Memphis in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology in 1987. She has since served adults and geriatrics as a clinician, manager, vice president, consultant, compliance manager and education director, and is most passionate about mentoring healthcare professionals in the post-acute facilities across the country. She currently provides continuing education support to therapists in over 950 sites nationwide as Education Specialist for Select Rehabilitation. She has authored and lectured at the state and national level with over 150 professional continuing education courses on a wide range of topics of importance to the healthcare professional who works with the older population.
Lisa is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), where she currently serves as a State Advocate for Medicare Policy (StAMP) for Texas. She serves on the Texas Speech-Language and Hearing Association (TSHA) Executive Council as well as on numerous other TSHA committees. She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and is a Distinguished Fellowship of the National Academies of Practice. She is a prior board president of the Louisiana Speech-Language and Hearing Association (LSHA) and a past member of the Council of State Association Presidents (CSAP). Through her leadership positions on the Louisiana and Texas Association boards, Executive Council, National Academies of Practice and other organizations, she has purposed to advocate services of these associations’ members as well as for the clients and families served by the members.
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