Tuesday, April 10

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Check in @ 7:45 AM

Peggy Gardner Deane Conference Room – AnMed Health Women and Children’s Hospital  – Anderson, SC

Ellen Hillegass, EdD, PT, CCS, FAACVPR

Purpose: Provide therapists with the knowledge, problem solving skills, and all the red flags for assessing mobility as well as the tools to develop safe and appropriate intervention programs for patients in acute care no matter their diagnosis.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions that may affect their patient’s response to mobility
• Discuss the evidence for early mobility of complex acute care patients
• Discuss assessments of patients with cardiopulmonary conditions including exercise tolerance and functional assessments and determine treatment programs based upon these assessments.
• Assess physiological responses to activity, analyze these responses and make appropriate adjustments in their plan of care based upon the responses.
• Determine treatment priorities for patients with cardiopulmonary dysfunction based upon the results of their assessment and progress exercise appropriately based upon physiological responses to activity.
• Demonstrate appropriate clinical decision making for mobility activities based upon the data from the chart and develop appropriate plans of care for all patients.
• Select appropriate monitoring tools for mobility and interpret the results of monitoring of the activity including outcomes and best practice documentation

Target Audience

Physical and Occupational Therapists and Assistants working with acute care patients, including cardiopulmonary, medical/surgical and neurologic.

Fee

$95 for non-members; No Fee for AHEC members

Credit

Physical Therapists: This program has been approved for 9 contact hours of continuing education by SC AHEC under its accreditation by the SC Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Board of Examiners for Physical Therapy.

Occupational Therapists: This program has been approved for 9 contact hours of continuing education for Occupational Therapists.  SC AHEC has presumptive approval as a provider of continuing education for Occupational Therapists by the SC Board of Examiners for Occupational Therapy.

Others: This program is approved for 0.75 CEUs (7.5 clock hours) by Upstate AHEC and meets the SC AHEC Best Practice Standards.