Documentation in Home Care
Effective Communication Using the SBAR Tool
Healthy Boundaries and Healing Heart
HIPAA Regulations: Confidentiality and the Law
Infection Control for the Professional Clinician
Introduction to Home Care for Physical and Occupational Therapists
Introduction to Home Care for PTAs and COTAs
Orientation to Minnesota Home Care Rules
Overview of Hospice: Care Beyond Cure
The Faces of Grief: Addressing Spiritual and Bereavement Needs
What Do I Do? Managing Physical and Emotional Symptoms of Dying
Difficult Decisions: Managing Communication Challenges
- Code:
- HOSP_PC
- Cost:
- $42.50
- Contact Hours:
3.0 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
2.5 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
This lesson is designed for professionals supporting patients who have recently learned that they have a terminal illness. It is the physician?s role to discuss a new diagnosis and the expected course of the disease (prognosis) with the patient. However, it is the role of the healthcare professional to reinforce, educate, support and empower the patient and the patient?s family to understand and accept the illness.
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Documentation in Home Care
- Code:
- TYDH
- Cost:
- $34.00
- Contact Hours:
2.4 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
2.0 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
This course is designed to assist the Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist in understanding the unique aspects of documentation in home care. Further, it introduces the many aspects of developing a plan of care from assessment through discharge. Specific home care rules and regulations regarding documentation and staff supervision in this setting will also be included in this course.
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Effective Communication Using the SBAR Tool
- Code:
- SBAR_HH
- Cost:
- $51.00
- Contact Hours:
3.6 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
3.0 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
Though communication can be complicated, learning to effectively communicate with patients and peers is important. This course is designed to review communication style differences and other factors affecting communication. In addition, the course will introduce the SBAR communication model and explore strategies to apply it in home health and assisted living settings.
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Healthy Boundaries and Healing Heart
- Code:
- HOSP_HB
- Cost:
- $42.50
- Contact Hours:
3.0 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
2.5 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
Health care boundaries are the limits within which health care services are to be delivered. Health care boundaries are important for the protection of both the patient and the health care provider. Maintaining healthy boundaries can be difficult when faced with the challenge of end-of-life care. Health care providers and volunteers need to demonstrate a healthy balance between care and compassion without becoming overly involved in their patient?s lives. This course is designed to assist the learner in understanding boundaries in health care, identify boundary issues and methods to avoid or address those issues.
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HIPAA Regulations: Confidentiality and the Law
- Code:
- HSCFB
- Cost:
- $27.20
- Contact Hours:
2.0 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
1.6 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
The rules have changed. Because of new regulations, every person who works with patients - from front-line bedside workers, to billing clerks and secretaries, to CEOs - will be held to a higher standard of accountability for keeping confidential information private. More than ever, before it is critical for all health care workers to receive information to reduce the risk and vulnerabilities associated with patient data security and privacy. The rules are significantly more far-reaching than any confidentiality rules to date, covering not only electronic medical records, but also paper records and oral communications. They also require patients' written consent for even routine disclosure of information. With criminal and civil penalties for improperly using or disclosing medical information, the stakes are high. It is critical that every employee, even those with access to limited patient information, become familiar with confidentiality requirements.
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Infection Control for the Professional Clinician
- Code:
- RNIC
- Cost:
- $34.00
- Contact Hours:
2.5 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
2.0 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
The application of infection control principles and practices is important to mitigate and prevent the spread of infectious diseases. More advanced medical devices and procedures, combined with prolonged survival amidst complex medical conditions further enhance the need for meticulous prevention efforts. This session encompasses a review of various disease processes including common symptoms, and preventive practices associated with individual disease states. Additionally, bioterrorism information and its effect on health care is presented.
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Introduction to Home Care for Physical and Occupational Therapists
- Code:
- TYHC
- Cost:
- $29.75
- Contact Hours:
2.10 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
1.75 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
This course is designed to assist the Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapist in understanding the unique aspects of their - and their assistants (PTA and COTA) - roles within the home care environment. Further, it provides an introduction to the unique challenges and opportunities posed to therapists. Such challenges include the many special rules and regulations regarding practice in this setting.
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Introduction to Home Care for PTAs and COTAs
- Code:
- TYTA
- Cost:
- $25.50
- Contact Hours:
1.8 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
1.5 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
This course is designed to assist the Physical Therapist Assistant and Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant in understanding the unique aspects of their roles within the home care environment. Further, it provides an introduction to the unique challenges and opportunities posed to therapists. Such challenges include the many special rules and regulations regarding practice in this setting.
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Orientation to Minnesota Home Care Rules
- Code:
- NAOR
- Cost:
- $27.20
- Contact Hours:
2.0 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
1.6 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
This course is intended to satisfy the requirement for Minnesota Rule 4668.0075, subpart 1: Every individual applicant for a license, and every person who provides direct care, supervision of direct care, or management of services for a licensee, shall complete orientation to home care requirements before providing home care services to clients.
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Overview of Hospice: Care Beyond Cure
- Code:
- HOSP_OV
- Cost:
- $13.60
- Contact Hours:
1.0 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
0.8 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
A team of professionals, para-professionals, and volunteers comprise the unique team of support available to the hospice patient and their families. It is important for all team members to have a clear understanding of hospice care. This course is an entry-level module for those interested in learning more about hospice, defining the roles of the team members, and understanding the services available to the hospice patient and family.
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The Faces of Grief: Addressing Spiritual and Bereavement Needs
- Code:
- HOSP_SN
- Cost:
- $34.00
- Contact Hours:
2.5 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
2.0 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
Grief manifests itself in many ways to the patient and to the family. A broader understanding of spirituality and bereavement enables the care team to provide help to those they serve as well as take care of themselves. This course will assist the participant in identifying methods to comfortably assess and address the spiritual and bereavement needs of the patient and family with education, resources, and information.
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What Do I Do? Managing Physical and Emotional Symptoms of Dying
- Code:
- HOSP_HA
- Cost:
- $63.75
- Contact Hours:
4.5 hours based on a 50 minutes contact hour
3.75 hours based on a 60 minutes contact hour
Dying is much more than a medical ?event?. It is a time of emotions that may include fear, grief, joy, anger, reconciliation, forgiveness, and transformation for all involved. Fear of the unknown for the patient and family is only natural. One of the fears the professional might face is the observation of the emotional and bodily changes of the patient as death approaches. The professional may not be prepared to provide the appropriate assessments and education that is expected by the patient and family. In the journey between living and dying, this is an emotional time during which the professional is needed for support, encouragement, and direction. This course is designed for professionals with a desire to learn more about the physical and emotional signs of the terminally ill patient, including the expected sequence of changes. Included are teaching aids for communication with the patient and family as symptoms occur.
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