Join us for our CEU Webinar Week starting March 4. Attend as many as you would like. Check out the details below and get registered.

In order to receive any course certification, attendees are required to be active during the entire session, participate in the polling questions and complete the evaluation following the course. Not adhering to all requirements will result in no certificate granted.

WEBINARS

Discharge Planning from Acute Care

Monday, March 4
1 p.m. CST

CEUs: RN & CCMs and TX, FL, LA, NC and UT Adjuster

Registration fee: none

Presenter: Stan Smith, SVP, Paradigm (Adva-Net)

Course Description

This course will review health care best practice standards for discharge planning from acute care hospital settings to post-acute care provider types including long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, residential traumatic brain injury centers, residential spinal cord injury centers, home health agency services, and care companion agency services.

Content will include discussion of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1985, how it is properly applied to acute care discharge events, and how it is also commonly misunderstood within the health care industry.

Content will use the health care industry’s 10-component Discharge Planning Procedure Checklist by reviewing the essential elements of each of these 10 critical checklist procedures:

Start discharge planning or transfer prior or close to admission.
Determine if the patient has simple or complex needs.
Develop a clinical management plan for all patients within 24 hours of admission.
Coordinate the process of discharge or transfer by establishing a manager or a chain of responsibility.
Establish an expected date of discharge or transfer within 24–48 hours of admission, in agreement with the patient and family members.
Review the clinical management plan every day, modifying and updating the expected date of discharge.
Involve the patient and family members.
Plan discharge or transfer on all days of the week, including holidays.
Use a checklist 24–48 hours before discharge.
Confirm the discharge feasibility in the expected discharge date.

A case study presentation of various discharge planning scenarios into various post-acute care provider type settings will be given within the Discharge Planning Checklist Procedures.

Course Objectives

Learn the basic do’s and don’ts of the EMTALA Act relative to acute care discharge procedures.
Expand one’s knowledge of the acute care hospital’s Discharge Planning Procedure Checklist.
Identify and work with the Discharge Planning Checklist components and how these components can be effectively executed to traditional post-acute care provider types.

Sponsored by HOMELINK

Guidelines for Physical Therapy

Tuesday, March 5
1 p.m. CST

CEUs: CCM, RN, and TX, FL, PA and NC Adjusters

Registration fee: none

Presenter: Andy McCord, HOMELINK

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide workers’ compensation adjusters a principal understanding of physical therapy treatment and review for injured workers. Upon completion, nursing professionals will be able to better understand the guidelines to physical therapy treatment and review and how it relates to workers’ compensation. They will be able to identify current educational and licensure requirements for PTs and PTAs, identify key components of a physical therapy evaluation, learn about new treatments and diagnostics, and be able to identify criteria for case management red flags. Workers’ compensation adjusters will also be given an overview of strategies to working with physical therapists.

Course Objectives

Identify current educational and licensure requirements for PTs and PTAs.
Identify key components of a physical therapy evaluation.
Use WI DWD Treatment Guidelines for PT treatment utilization.
Discuss new treatments and diagnostics.
Gain strategies for working with the physical therapist.
Identify criteria for case management “red flags.”

Sponsored by VGM HOMELINK

Transition Patients to Home Infusion Therapy

Wednesday, March 6
1 p.m. CST

CEUs: CCM and RN only

Registration fee: none

Presenter: Lou Anne Epperson, MSN, RN, IgCN

Course Description

Attendees at this program will be able to discuss reasons for appropriate discharge to home for infusion therapy and criteria to consider during the discharge process. Types of vascular access devices use in the home IV patient will also be discussed.

Course Objectives

Identify patients who will benefit from early discharge to home with home infusion therapy.
Discuss patient selection criteria for home infusion therapy.
Identify strategies for overcoming barriers to on-time discharges.

Sponsored by VGM HOMELINK