5 Hours 31 Minutes

Attend this seminar and learn functional assessment techniques and discover how the cranial nerves drive both assessment and treatment. Join national speaker and dysphagia expert, Tiffani Wallace, MA, CCC-SLP, BRS-S, LSVT Certified Clinician, MBSImP Registered Clinician, as she teaches you practical, functional and affordable strategies and techniques that can be immediately incorporated into your workday.

1 Hour 30 Minutes

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is more than just a buzzword. It is an evidenced-based approach that will take the lecturing and negotiating out of the conversation with your patients, and provide you with effective strategies that will increase the behavior change your clients need. It’s a proven technique that can improve patient outcomes and quality in an organization, increase success and reduce re-admission.

5 Hours 40 Minutes

A large number of older individuals are living with some type of dementia. For these individuals, and as illness progresses, behavior often becomes a key form of communication. This can be challenging for families and staff, and too often, antipsychotic medication is used in an attempt to modify behavior.

6 Hours 03 Minutes

Gastrointestinal tract conditions and diseases affect millions of people of all ages—men, women and children. There are a variety of other illnesses that initially present one way, but then exacerbate into a secondary illness – a GI illness. These conditions and diseases affect the everyday functioning of your patients. Your ability to provide the proper assessment and treatment as soon as possible is vital.

2 Hours 35 Minutes

Hospitalizations for sepsis more than doubled between 2000 and 2010. Patients with sepsis are more likely to have extended hospital stays and many patients experience major organ damage or death. You as a critical care or emergency department nurse, are on the front line in patient care and you will leave with tools that will assist you to identify subtle symptoms of sepsis and prepare you to assist in implementing the “surviving sepsis guidelines 2013”.

2 Hours 44 Minutes

“Never events” is a term coined by Ken Keizer, MD, former CEO of National Quality Forum, in 2001, in reference to shocking medical errors that should never occur. Never events are devastating and costly for organizations. There are currently 29 events that are recognized as “never events”. Clinical nurses are highly competent with skills and knowledge that can reduce these events.

5 Hours 22 Minutes

For those who assist pediatric patients with gait, you know firsthand the crucial role that autonomous locomotion has on the lives of infants and children, especially in regards to participating with their peers. However, are you utilizing scientific practices in the examination, evaluation, and treatment of the children with whom you work? Are you using the latest and most appropriate interventions for pediatric gait disorders based on the evidence?

5 Hours 50 Minutes

This dynamic one-day event will provide you with the intricacies of developing, maintaining and continuing an effective cardiac rehabilitation program. Karyn Gallivan will explore ways to increase referrals and support patient adherence while in a cardiac rehabilitation program. How confident are you in your performance improvement processes? Are you meeting the current billing/qualifying standards out there?

5 Hours 54 Minutes

This seminar offers an exploration of the latest evidence-based treatments. Explore effective strategies for restoring impaired function and compensating for deficits that are not amenable to retraining. Learn cognition-focused interventions that have been shown to improve cognitive skills, functional abilities, and performance-based activities of daily living with lasting outcomes.

6 Hours 15 Minutes

It’s two o’clock on a Sunday morning and you are the Charge Nurse on a 24-bed telemetry/Med Surg Unit. Mrs. J, in room # 312, is on telemetry and her low heart rate monitor alarm goes off.

5 Hours 55 Minute

Every 67 seconds someone in the U.S. develops Alzheimer’s disease. It is estimated that there are 5 million persons with dementia and by 2050 there will be 10 million or more. Healthcare staff is challenged with providing safe and quality care for this vulnerable population – across all the various settings.

1 Hour 11 Minutes

Wound care expert Heidi H. Cross, has been in your shoes.  She struggled to manage a busy schedule and heavy patient load, and still keep up with all of the changes in protocols, products and treatment options.  Instead of overwhelming you with every wound you may see in your day, Heidi will focus on two of the most common and tricky conditions you will face: pressure ulcers and moisture-associated skin damage.

1 Hour 59 Minutes

If you are suffering from your work, you are doing it wrong.  Most compassion fatigue and burnout trainings identify the problem as the workplace environment.  “The demands are just too high!”  “They want too much from me!”  “There is too much to do and not enough time to do it.”

5 Hours 25 Minutes

Mrs. Jones, age 66, is your first patient today. She has just been diagnosed with Type II Diabetes in addition to her history of Coronary Artery Disease, Hypertension, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Arthritis. Mrs. Jones tells you she is lactose intolerant and that she started using a walker a few months ago due to the arthritis in her knees. 

Full Day

Shelly will teach you quick tips to recognize normal gait and its components, as well as to understand evaluation of abnormal gait. Review posture, and discover details about its impact on gait. Through interactive case studies and lab demonstrations, Shelly will help you consider the latest in orthotics and other advanced technologies being used in rehabilitation – interventions that you can implement into your practice now.

12 Hours 15 Minutes

Watch Drs. Ed Jacobs and Christine Schimmel as they introduce you to a whole new framework for treating clients – an active, creative, multisensory, theory-driven approach that grabs clients’ attention and gets them moving in every sense of the word.

Full Day

Cardiac patients can present stable, unstable, or having life-threatening symptoms. Early differentiation is an essential step to establish diagnoses and begin appropriate treatment. Physical assessment skills, understanding the cardiac monitor and being able to quickly interpret the EKG are imperative to rule out life-threatening scenarios. Attend this comprehensive program and gain the skills and knowledge you need to manage any situation.

Full Day

If you have a hard time explaining to your patients about why their heart disease is a risk factor for stroke, or how shrugging their shoulders and sticking out their tongues assesses their brain function, or what to watch for as signs of adverse effects of medications, then you need to go back to the basics with the help of a program that can make the information easy and understandable.

Full Day

Join Karen M. Marzlin, DNP, RN, CCNS, CCRN-CMC, CHFN, for an insightful and practical day focused on the common types of cardiac disorders that professionals like you see in your practice, and the medications currently used to treat them.

15 Hours 19 Minutes

Spanish for Healthcare Providers, you will begin by understanding the fundamentals of learning a foreign language. You’ll learn about where the language is spoken and the basic foundations of the language such as the alphabet and common greetings. As you progress through the module, you’ll learn about culture, nouns, verb conjugation and vocabulary for: numbers, time, money, food, clothing, and anatomy.

1 Hour 32 Minutes

Identify the hidden clues in both common and less frequently seen lab values. Gain critical thinking skills and proactively plan the course of care to optimize patient outcomes.