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Documentation: An Opportunity to Advocate for Your Patient
April 15, 2024
Learn the ethics of documentation, goal writing, and measuring progress in difficult situations such as palliative care or maintenance therapy. Read More
Geriatrics Home Health Neurology Professional Issues and Compliance
12 Ways to Progress Any PT or OT Exercise, Activity, or Movement, Part 2
March 1, 2024
Therapists who routinely add spice and variety to their treatment methods are able to offer something new to their patients – a delighted therapist. Come enjoy this “sampler platter” of evidence... Read More
Geriatrics Home Health Neurology Orthopedics
12 Ways to Progress Any PT or OT Exercise, Activity, or Movement. Part 1
February 15, 2024
Therapists who routinely add variety to their treatment methods can now offer something new to their patients – an inspired therapist. Come enjoy this “sampler platter” of evidence-based ideas f... Read More
Geriatrics Home Health Neurology Orthopedics
Substance Misuse In The Elderly And Use Of Screening, Brief Intervention, And Referral To Treatment (SBIRT)
December 4, 2023
Substance use disorders are a significant problem in the elderly population. Studies have shown that elderly patients with substance use disorders have very good outcomes when diagnosed and treatment... Read More
Geriatrics Professional Issues and Compliance
Overcoming Compassion Fatigue in Our Work Environment
September 30, 2022
Learn to identify compassion fatigue in yourself and others and strategies to manage it. Read More
Acute Care Athletic Training CardioPulmonary Geriatrics Home Health Orthopedics Professional Issues and Compliance Self Care and Burnout Sports
Justifying Medical Necessity in Documentation: Screens to Skilled Services
August 31, 2021
Providing excellent client-centered services depends on documentation that clearly illustrates the medical necessity of the client. This course covers medical necessity to support physical therapy tre... Read More
Geriatrics Professional Issues and Compliance
Diabetes in Adults: Current Guidelines and Evidence
July 29, 2021
This course gives us an overview of diabetes in adults, discusses current perspectives and guidelines, and addresses its significance in PT practice. It also looks at some of the current literature th... Read More
Acute Care Geriatrics Home Health Neurology Orthopedics Professional Issues and Compliance
Tools to Optimize Quality Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: Tackling Loneliness and Social Isolation
March 22, 2021
This session will review practical and cost-effective strategies care providers can implement to impact these areas. Following the framework of person-centered care, providers will hear about meaningf... Read More
Geriatrics
Geriatric Functional Performance Measures
October 9, 2020
Understanding function and how to address it are both essential to being good therapists and this is especially important as a component of therapy for older adults, those who are age 65 or more. As w... Read More
Geriatrics Orthopedics
Dementia Management: Techniques for Staging and Intervention
October 1, 2020
Age-associated memory impairment often takes the form of memory lapses. Memories of personal information tend to survive in old age. However, individuals with age-associated memory impairment may expe... Read More
Geriatrics
Suicide and Self-Harm in the Elderly
March 31, 2020
This course will discuss the signs that go beyond depression to reveal active suicidal or self-harm risk. We will address the prevalence of suicidality in long term care settings, elevated risks in ca... Read More
Geriatrics Professional Issues and Compliance
Put Down the Drugs: Evidence-Based Interventions to Reduce Unwanted Behaviors with Dementia
December 28, 2018
An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from dementia and more than 15 million people in the United States are providing unpaid caregiving. Dementia, as we know as clinicians is the most challenging.... Read More
Geriatrics
Selecting Appropriate Screening and Assessment Tools in the Skilled Nursing and Long-Term Care Populations: Where the Research Supports and Fails Us
December 19, 2018
A review of which evidence-based outcome measures are supported in the skilled nursing (SNF)/long term care (LTC) facility settings as per the current research, as well as those that fall short for ap... Read More
Geriatrics
Patient-Centered Strategies to Managing Geriatric Chronic Pain in Home Health
October 22, 2018
The current opioid epidemic in the United States has renewed focus on the importance of non-pharmacologic approaches to management of chronic pain. PTs and PTAs in home health find the treatment of el... Read More
Geriatrics Home Health
Restraint Reduction: Regulations, Alternatives and Therapy Intervention
March 23, 2018
As we begin, we will take a look at state survey guidelines as they relate to restraint reduction, and then we will review the new CMS regulations. Next, we will read through some restraint-related de... Read More
Geriatrics Professional Issues and Compliance
Pharmacological Management of the Patient With Neurological and/or Central Nervous System Disorders
January 25, 2018
Physical therapists and occupational therapists are non-prescribing healthcare practitioners. With autonomous practice, you have a professional responsibility to screen your patients' medications and... Read More
Geriatrics Neurology Pharmacology
Management of Adhesive Capsulitis
September 26, 2017
Adhesive capsulitis and the term frozen shoulder are often used interchangeably. As stated by Dr. Codman, "It is a condition difficult to define, difficult to treat and difficult to explain from the p... Read More
Geriatrics Orthopedics
Abilities Based Approaches to Treatment of Persons with Dementia
December 20, 2016
As therapists, we know that we need an interdisciplinary team approach. Unfortunately, we often operate under the “silo mentality.” In other words, siloing occurs when departments or groups within... Read More
Geriatrics Neurology
Geriatric Balance and Dizziness Management
January 20, 2014
This presentation will include practical clinical applications of the latest evidence in the rehabilitation of geriatric patients with dizziness. Participants completing this course will be ready to r... Read More
Geriatrics Neurology