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The Physical Therapists Role in Preventing Rehospitalizations

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Mandy

New regulations and payment models depend upon successful patient discharge home without a re-admission in the immediate future. Physical therapists will play a huge role in determining whether or not a patient is “ready for discharge” home and once home, to continue their care and safety planning. 

This is an opportunity to re-write “best practices” in home care for the entire team. In the end the patient should benefit by preventing a physical decline that could occur, especially with the short acute care stays we are currently seeing and with patients coming home sicker and sicker. 

Are you ready for this paradigm shift? How will it affect the care you give? If you work in home care, do you see closer collaboration with the discharging hospital’s physical therapist as being necessary? If a home care patient refuses treatment for “not feeling well”, how do you handle that so someone is staying on top of the situation? Do you get nursing involved with a visit that they (perhaps) were not planning? What frustrations do you face in home care that will make this difficult? Is your home care agency preparing you properly for these changes? 

We look forward to hearing from you on these issues. Please share your ideas and your experiences as well as your frustrations.

 

 

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Asking Therapists for Topic and Speaker Suggestions for Therapies in the School 2014

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Mandy

 THERAPIES IN THE SCHOOL
2014

We are fine tuning our agenda for this years Therapies in the School conference in Massachusettsand would value your input.

Based on feedback from last years conference we are excited to announce that we will have sessions on using shared goals to drive intervention, auditory-visual-vestibular tools to embed, integrated collaborative teams, hot practice issues, visual tools to gain teacher buy-in, prioritizing gross motor needs, writing measurable goals and much more!

We are continuing to build our course schedule for 2014, and would like to bring you material that would be most applicable to your daily practice.

We do have a few speaking slots open and we want to be able to meet your needs.  

  • Are there any specific speakers who you would love to hear?
  • Are there any specific topics that you would like to see covered?

 In a session focusing on
“Integrated Collaborative Teams to Improve Learning Participation and to Decrease Stress”,
are there specific tools that you would like addressed?

  • Movement-based learning such as Brain Gym Bal-a-Vis 
  • Ocular motor/visual strategies
  • Auditory and Listening Strategies
  • Other tools                           
Would you be interested in a session on
“Your Performance Evaluation: The New Educator Evaluation and
What it Means for OT, PT and SLP”

Please e-mail Mandy:
mwashington@educationresourcesinc.com
with your replies, and any suggestions for topics or speakers

The course this year will again be in November:
November 20-21, 2014 – Framingham, MA

Thank you so much for your time

Mandy

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Strength Exercise for Aging Adults – CEU course for PTs, OT’s and Assistants

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Mandy

Education Resources - Strength Exercise for Aging Adulta

A great CEU course from dynamic instructor: Mark Richards

Whether you work in home health, outpatient, skilled nursing, a rehab center, or acute care, this course is designed to help you enhance your strength exercise treatments in a clinically realistic and practical way. Reimbursement and regulatory challenges make the provision of therapy more challenging than ever. How does one employ evidence-based treatment principles when there seems to be less and less time to treat patients? And, on top of that, deliver expected, superior clinical outcomes? Muscular weakness in aging adults is effectively treated when using the proper exercise protocols. 

Unfortunately, many therapists use strength exercise approaches that are not research-based, resulting in sub-par patient strength gains. This heavily evidence-based seminar will provide you with the information needed to deliver safe and highly effective optimal strength exercise to aging adults. The course is designed to enable you to immediately and efficiently incorporate the learned material into your treatments to help you get great treatment results! 

Please click here for more details, a brochure and for registration information

March 14, 2014 – Manchester, NH
April 11, 2014 – Newport News, VA
May 9, 2014 – Portland, OR
June 14, 2014 – New Brunswick, NJ 

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OT Looking for Evidenced-Based Best Practice Assessments

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Mandy

Martha Posts:

DEAR ERI COMMUNITY: I would like to know if anyone  recommends or is aware of a good assessment for OT’s to use to evaluate ADL’s and IADL’s in the home. Our agency is looking for evidenced-based best practice assessments.
Thank you.

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Treating Complex Neuro and Geriatric Patients – CEU course for PT’s, OT’s and Assistants

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Mandy

 

Treating Complex Neuro and Geriatric PatientsIn this intensive treatment course, presented by acclaimed speaker; Carole Campbell Burnett  you will learn to use evidence based interventions for improving balance, preventing falls, promoting strength and function in geriatric and neurologic patients. A key focus is learning to select and use the most appropriate tools for assessing balance/ risk of falls and evaluating function. Participants will examine the relationship between cognition, the sensory system and balance control problems and will apply motor control interventions and motor learning concepts to specific conditions. Focus is on effective evidence based treatment strategies to prevent falls and readmission, improve functional balance and mobility and optimize the environment for patients with balance problems, including the elderly, those with stroke, Parkinson’s disease and medically complex conditions across the continuum of care.

March 15-16, 2014 – Temple Texas

April 26-27, 2014 – Liberty, MO

June 7-8, 2014 – Danbury, CT

September 12-13, 2014 – Kalamazoo, MI

Please click here for full schedule and registration information

 

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Research Showing School Based Brain Training Can Be An Alternative to Medication for ADHD

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Mandy

Neurofeedback brain training for ADHDA very interesting article highlighting research coming out of Tufts Medical Center, Boston

“With more than one in 10 children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, parents and doctors alike have been eager to find alternatives to prescription stimulant medications like Ritalin or Adderall. Some of these options include computer programs that train the brain to increase attention span and a therapy called neurofeedback where a practitioner teaches children how to keep their brain calm and focused.”

Please Click Here for Full Article

Has anyone heard of this new technique or had experience with it? We would love to hear your thoughts?

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Featured PTA CEU Course – The Complex Acute Care Patient

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Mandy

Acute Care CEU CoursePTA’s are you looking for a CEU course?

Our popular CEU course designed for PT’s OT’s and Assistants is coming to Virginia in March:

Management of The Complex Acute Care Patient

This course is designed to enhance the clinical decision-making skills of participants for early mobilization and safe, effective treatment of acutely ill patients. As more patients survive critical illnesses, intervention must complement the highly technologic, life-saving medical therapies, regardless of practice setting. Discussion of lines, physiologic monitors, lab values, and diagnostic test results will focus on implications for treatment. This course will highlight a multisystem approach to the acutely ill patient. Participants will integrate examination findings into individualized care plans that can be implemented from ICU and across acute care and post-acute practice settings. This course is designed for therapists and assistants and who care for acutely ill adult patients in ICU’s, acute care hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, subacute rehabilitation centers, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and home care. 

With Distinguished Faculty Member:
Daniel Malone

March 15-16, 2014 – Alexandria, VA

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OT seeks help in fostering better collaborative relationship with SLPs

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Mandy

DEAR ERI COMMUNITY: I am an OT and have gotten feedback from some of the SLPs that I work with… that I might be infringing on their territory. I see kiddos with a wide variety of sensory difficulties, and I don’t see why it can’t be a team approach with BOTH instead of OT versus SLP. 

Any Advice?

Thank you

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Congratulations to Faculty Member Chris Perme

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Mandy

Chris Perme

Our distinguished faculty member, Chris Perme has been named the recipient of the APTA Acute Care Section Lecture Award!!   Chris will be presenting the Fifth Acute Care Section Lecture at CSM 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana next year.

The Lecture Award’s purpose is to acknowledge and honor a member of the Acute Care Section-APTA for excellence and leadership in acute care physical therapy and for distinguished contributions to the section; to provide the recipient with an opportunity to share his/her achievements and ideas with Section membership through a lecture presented at the annual Combined Sections Meeting; and to provide a touchstone for the profession in assessing the role and value of acute care physical therapy. 

Considerations for this award include:

  • Effect on the shape, scope, and quality of acute care physical therapy practice
  • Quality and quantity of contributions to the Acute Care Section
  • Quality and quantity of contributions to the Association
  • General esteem in which the nominee is held by peers, as judged by favorable comments in the letters of support and sources of the comments
  • Ability to present a noteworthy lecture; acknowledged skills in the organization and presentation of written and/or oral communications, as documented in the letters of support and the nominee’s curriculum vitae

Chris was previously awarded the Mary Sinnott Award for Clinical Excellence in Acute Care 

Chris’s Course:

ICU and Acute Care Update: Focus on Early Mobility 

We would love to hear your comments if you have previously attended, or your questions if you are planning to attend this highly acclaimed course

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Offering New Online CEU Courses for School Therapists

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Mandy

Our 14th Annual Therapy in the Schools Conference is now Online

The team at Education Resources is excited to announce the launch of our new online courses.

We are offering sessions (recorded live) from our highly acclaimed Annual Therapies in the School Conference. You can choose from six individual sessions, or choose the complete package of all six sessions; a great option to share with your colleagues or district.

 

 

  • Strategies to Implement in the Classroom
  • Professional Development On Demand
  • Convenient and Flexible Learning
  • Cost Effective Continuing Education

It’s the next best thing to attending live!

Please click here for session descriptions and faculty bios 

and click here for CEU details

Registration Fees including a discounted rate for group/district purchases:

$129 per session (2.5-3 contact hours)
        $29 per additional CEU certificate

$599 for complete package of all six sessions (16.5 contact hours)
        $39 per additional CEU certificate (0-9)
        $34 per additional CEU certificate (10-20)

Individual registrations are available online.

Please call the office for group/district registrations, or click here for a Registration Form and mail or fax in the form with payment

We know that for some of you, it may not be possible to attend every conference you would like, and for others, supplemental materials will enhance your learning when attending our highly regarded live programs. Still others have told us that they want to share the material they have learned at one of our live courses with their colleagues, administrators and the families they serve. That is why we developed our new e-Learning program taught by leading experts in their fields.     

Please visit our FAQ Page  and CEU Page   for more information.

We continue to strive to meet your needs as you develop your skills to meet the ever changing demands of health care and education. These are our first online course offerings and we welcome your suggestions for future online courses.  info@educationresourcesinc.com

 

 

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