Care2Learn Online Education for Healthcare Professionals

 
This course will explain the purpose and provisions of HIPPA laws and regulations and recognize how it affects everyday work situations, including referral and marketing efforts. HIPAA is a permanent change to the delivery and documentation of all types of healthcare. This course explains how HIPAA laws affect healthcare workers in a variety of everyday work situations. There is special focus on HIPAA as it relates to the referral and marketing process.

 
Many professionals today are faced with working with individuals who have sustained a brain injury. This course will help the student to understand how neuropsychology approaches the treatment of brain injury.

 
To introduce student to basic issues of personnel administration.

 
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the effects that domestic violence has on children and teenagers, as well as the importance of breaking the cycle of domestic violence by breaking the silence.

 
People in physical pain are often in spiritual pain as well. All healthcare workers are in a position to address the issue of spirituality by treating the individual as a "whole" person and not just a set of symptoms or diseases. This course discusses a patient's suffering within the context of spirituality and identifies reasons for integrating spirituality into patient care. Specific spiritual interventions are suggested and examples offered.

 
This book zeros in on the youngster who may damage property, defy authority, steal, lie, torment peers, manipulate and hurt others, disrupt classrooms, make threats, and break laws and rules. In the extreme, some of these youth may even engage in fire setting, sexual assault, or school violence. Anti-social youth and conduct disorders are among the hardest-to-manage youngsters. The conventional methods that work with other youngsters usually fail with this population. For this reason, many youth professionals become profoundly discouraged and frustrated, feeling that there is nothing that they can do to successfully manage this type of out-of-control youngster. The methods offered in this book are intended to be the tailored tools that you need to manage and help anti-social and conduct disordered youth and children.

 
The purpose of this course is to detail the symptoms and subtypes of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), describe developmental and behavioral issues, outline assessment and diagnostic considerations, and briefly scan the literature on the efficacy of various treatment approaches. It will also outline common GI problems and feeding difficulties in autism, exploring the empirical data and/or lack thereof regarding any links between GI disorders and autism. Sections on feeding difficulties offer interventions and behavior change techniques. A final section on nutritional considerations discusses unusual food preferences or sensitivities, growth and weight concerns, and food allergies and sensitivities with an objective look at the science and theory behind a variety of nutrition interventions.
 

 
This introductory course covers the full spectrum of basic vestibular rehab including anatomy and physiology of the vestibular system, common pathophysiology, evaluation, and treatment. The most common vestibular disorders, including benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, unilateral and bilateral vestibular deficits, and central vestibular disorders are discussed. Course materials include text, graphics, and pictures.

 
The data items that constitute OASIS were developed to measure patient outcomes in home health care. OASIS items are used for outcome monitoring, clinical assessment, care planning, payment, compliance and other internal agency-level applications. It's important that all home health workers understand how and when to use OASIS data.

 
This course is designed to increase awareness and train all home healthcare workers about the special care needs of residents who have Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD). This course focuses on Behavioral issues, Activities, Safety, and takes an in-depth look at family issues. 1201 This course has been approved by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, Program Approval number HH AD 086

 
To present and review the therapeutic assessment and treatment options for patients recovering from a stroke.

 
This course examines the various characteristics of voice disorders evidenced due to aging and other pathologies in the geriatric population. Assessment and intervention strategies for voice disorders in the elderly will be identified.

 
To demonstrate an understanding of the nature of interdisciplinary services for management of dysphagia and to identify the nature of work that an interdisciplinary team does for specific cases of dysphagia while focusing on swallowing-related quality of life issues.

 
To educate healthcare professionals caring for terminally ill patients in matters of communicating with patients and families based on their needs and coping styles. This information will be useful when talking to terminally ill patients and their families when the patient can no longer tolerate nourishment. An explanation of end of life disease process will be given, along with appropriate care for the patient.

 
The purpose of this course is to introduce the SLP to provision of services in the Long Term Care (LTC) setting using a functional therapy approach to speech, language and cognitive screening, assessment and goal setting.

 
The purpose of this course is to provide foundational information to practitioners who work with older children and adolescents who have emotional and/or behavioral disorders. The high co-occurrence of language difficulties and emotional/behavioral disorders has been addressed in recent literature, but remains an area that is often under-emphasized in treatment and education of such individuals. These students are at-risk for academic failure and possible problems with emotional and social development. In this course, the co-occurrence of language disorders and emotional and/or behavioral disorders will be examined. In order to understand possible relationships of these disorders, a framework for discussion of language will be introduced. Language development will be briefly reviewed with emphasis placed on developments that occur during school-age and adolescent years. Then, information that describes some of the language deficits of children with EBD will be described. Those communication disorders of children and adolescents that may co-occur with emotional or behavior disorders will also be described. Implications for counselors, psychologists, teachers, speech-language pathologists, and other professionals who work with this population will be provided. Developments in federal regulations for education will also be discussed in conjunction with intervention considerations for this population of students.