Full Course Description

Module 1 - Managing Challenging Patient & Family Behaviors: Strategies for Healthcare Professionals

In this interactive seminar, expert and international speaker, Paul Thomas Clements, PhD, APRN-BC, will teach you tips and tools that you can use immediately when faced with challenging patient and family behaviors. This program includes numerous practical strategies that you can implement with difficult situations like aggression, dementia and attention-seeking behaviors while maintaining patient and staff safety. The recording will be filled with opportunities to apply many of these strategies to real patient situations, case studies and interactive discussions. Don’t miss this chance to learn techniques you can implement successfully with your most difficult patients.

Program Information

Target Audience

Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Nursing Home Administrators, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Risk Managers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians

Objectives

Use motivational interviewing to identify causes of behavior.
Apply successful interventions to improve communication.
Develop real-life solutions for problem families.
Implement strategies for problem patient situations through case study discussion.
Analyze ways to improve your interpersonal effectiveness.

Outline

Difficult Patient Encounters: Asking the Right Questions

Interviewing the Patient
Types of Intervention
Self-Awareness

What Type of Communicator are You?

Reciprocal Communication
Strategies to Deal with the Angry Patient
Interpersonal Effectiveness & Exploring the Reasonable, Emotional, and Wise Minds

Motivational Interviewing

Understand the Patient’s Motivation
Listen with Empathy
Integration and Application
Empower Through Hope for Change
Communication Styles

The Family

Family Dynamics
Family Communication
Mediation

Psychiatric Emergencies

Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder
Substance-Induced Psychosis
Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder
Anxiety Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder

Substance Misuse

Prevalence
Evaluation
Psychosocial Intervention

Other Medical Conditions

Geriatric Patients
Dementia
Delirium

Acute Psychosocial Crisis

Sexual Assault
Domestic Violence

Suicide

High-Risk Populations
Suicide & Psychiatric Diagnosis

Violent Patients

Prevalence & Risk
Major Profiles of Violence
Taking Care of Yourself

Copyright : 07/23/2014

Module 2 - Challenging Geriatric Behaviors: A Comprehensive and Dignified Approach to Care

This is the best seminar on challenging geriatric behaviors that you will ever complete - GUARANTEED! Join Steven Atkinson, PA-C, MS, nationally-known expert, author and speaker on geriatrics for a high-energy, dynamic seminar filled with interesting case studies, insightful discussions and interactive learning. Completion of this seminar will leave you with practical techniques you can apply the next day!

Dealing with cognitively-impaired geriatric patients can be challenging even for the experienced healthcare professional. You will learn strategies to manage behaviors such as:

Dementia
Aggression
Anxiety and depression
Refusal of food and fluids
Inappropriate sexual advances

If older adults are routinely under your care, minimize your risk of escalating the problems associated with troublesome, often irrational behavior by attending this program. Gain valuable insights into the causes of challenging geriatric behaviors and learn innovative and practical intervention strategies to improve the care you provide.

Objectives

Develop strategies to manage difficult behaviors in seniors who have an altered perception of reality.
Identify the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias.
Discuss current research on the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as lifestyle factors to slow the disease progression.
Summarize the safety issues associated with geriatric patients who drive and identify individuals who pose a safety threat.
Explain why wandering occurs in individuals with cognitive impairment and develop strategies to minimize or redirect this behavior.
Describe the environmental and behavioral causes of agitation.
Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviors in individuals with dementia.
Distinguish between normal sleeping patterns and bedtime issues which could lead to increased health problems.
Analyze the physical and psychological changes that affect an elder’s desire and ability to eat including the changes in nutritional requirements.
Identify the signs of caregiver stress and develop intervention

Outline
Normal Aging, Dementia, Depression or Delirium

Normal aging changes of the mind
Depression, dementia, and delirium
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
Diagnose, differentiate, and develop a plan of care

Alzheimer’s Disease

Stages
Assessment
Getting a diagnosis
Behavioral issues of early diagnosis
Management and interventions
Pharmacological treatments

Driving with Dementia

Driving safety
Legal issues
Assess driving abilities
How to take the keys away

Wandering

Reasons why cognitively impaired individuals wander
Is wandering a bad thing?
Issues to consider
Manage a wanderer’s behavior

Physical Aggression

Identify the cause of aggression
Loss of impulse control
Regression of the mind/child-like mind
Manage the problem

Inappropriate Sexual Behaviors

Normal sexual drive or inappropriate behavior
Cognitively impaired individuals
Medication management
Ethical considerations

Refusing to Eat/Forgetting to Eat

Reasons why geriatric patients slow or stop eating
Nutritional needs in a geriatric patient
Improve nutritional status
Malnutrition and dehydration
Alternatives to eating

Sleepless Nights

Sundowning and behavioral problems in the evening
Why does sundowning occur?
Environmental interventions to decrease aggressive behaviors
Medication management when it becomes problematic

Caregiver Stress

Physical, psychological, and emotional stress
Identify caregiver burnout and ways to help
Assist the caregiver

Other Issues

Ways to identify potential falls and prevent injury
Causes for orthostatic hypotension
Ways to avoid using restraints

Case Studies: Learning from Experience and Mistakes

How to manage sundowners
Strategies to improve hygiene
Reassurance and redirection

Program Information

Target Audience

Nurses, Home Healthcare Providers, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Nursing Home Nurses, Home Healthcare Providers, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Nursing Home Administrators, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians, Recreation Therapists

Objectives

Develop strategies to manage difficult behaviors in seniors who have an altered perception of reality.
Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviors in individuals with dementia.
Distinguish between normal sleeping patterns and bedtime issues which could lead to increased health problems.
Analyze the physical and psychological changes that affect an elder’s desire and ability to eat including the changes in nutritional requirements.
Apply current research findings to prevent and slow progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Determine environmental and behavioral triggers of agitation.
Develop strategies to minimize or redirect wandering behavior.