Home Health CEU Courses for PTs

You are excited about dual-task treatment but unsure how to make it more fun. How can you apply the evidence in dual tasking to create a personalized dosage that is functionally gainful for your patients? Find out now with this course.

Learn the evidence and the application of mastering your soft skills to optimize the patient experience and patient engagement. Be ready to improve in every aspect of patient care from the interview, diagnosis, education, intervention, and home exercise prescription.

The course will focus on the items that are unique to the OASIS E data collection process. Official guidance sources will be explored to ensure the accuracy of the information.

The unique relationship between the occupational and physical therapist when treating an acute, subacute, or chronic stroke diagnosis will be distinguished in this two-part series. Part two will focus on the subacute and chronic stroke, differentiating the home, outpatient, and community phases of rehabilitation, as well as examining the evaluation, evidence, and interventions in each setting to optimize independence for the patient.

In this introductory course for assessing and treating BPPV in the home, we will review the essential aspects of the patient interview, diagnosing BPPV, differentiating canalithias versus cupulolithiasis, and patient education. All information is based on the APTA's most recent Clinical Practice Guideline on BPPV.

This course will present the most up-to-date evidence on the etiology of falls among older adults, assessment of fall risk, and interventions to improve balance. Beyond that, a holistic approach to the individual and their environment(s) as well as resources to decrease fall risk and enable aging in place will be presented

Communication is the basis for every interaction between human beings and involves providing a message and interpreting a message for each person. The brain changes that occur in people with dementia interfere with their expression of verbal messages as the disease progresses, but also with how they interpret and process incoming information. Similarly, the message conveyed is more than just words; it involves non-verbal communication even more than verbal. This course helps you take a second look at how your approach and word choices impact a person with dementia while providing care in-home health and how care partners (family members) can better translate the messages people with dementia are providing

Patients with life limiting conditions and late-stage chronic diseases experience dramatic fluctuations in function and physical status which negatively affect their quality of life. Physical therapists are well positioned to mitigate these functional and quality of life issues through strategic and skilled delivery of their interventions and education in the home setting.

This course provides the attendee with the definition, evaluation methods, treatment strategies, and discharge planning for home health patients living with frailty.

This course equips the physical therapist to identify pre-diabetes and type 1 diabetes in their patients based on history and clinical signs and symptoms. Exercise Prescription, the interaction of other medications, and modulation of a current exercise program for patients with diabetes as a co-morbidity are also included. This course also includes the management of diabetes from a Covid-19 perspective.