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The course’s three modules will detail the stages during a patient’s hospital stay (and afterward) when a CM can be of service; the possible opportunities for troubleshooting that may arise; and how CM’s an adapt a “right care” approach to their patients’ needs.
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This course covers the topics of Ethics, Legalities & Regulations; Advance Directives; Imminently Dying Patient and Grief and Bereavement Care.
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This course covers the topics of Pain Management; Dyspnea; Nausea and Vomiting and Depression, Anxiety and Delirium.
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This course covers the topics of Goals and Expectations; Ethical & Legal Considerations; Course of the Illness and Areas Requiring Support.
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This course covers the topics of Accurate Prognostication; Initiating Conversations, Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnic Sensitivity and Health Literacy.
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This course covers Organizational Culture; Team-Led Care; Team-Led Care Planning; Palliative & EOL Care Teams; Professional Balance and CM Credentials & Standards.
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This course covers the topics of Economics and Costs; Quality and Value; Regulations and Standards; Hospice Coverage Options; CMS Reimbursement Guidelines and Commercial Payer Reimbursement.
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This course covers the topics of: Defining Palliative & EOL Care; Continuum and Characteristics; Prevalence & Access; Landmarks and Progress and Barriers to Overcome.
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This course discusses the paradigm shift away from the “disease-centered” approach and toward the “patient-centered” approach. The Athena Forum course describes how the case manager should apply the concept of pain measurement as the fifth vital sign and adopt pain management guidelines from the Joint Commission and American Pain Society.
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This course will explore the shift from a disease-centered paradigm to a patient-centered approach as it guides CMs on how to help obesity patients set goals—and keep them—in terms of long-term weight loss and healthy weight maintenance. Over four modules it will detail the prevalence and pathology of obesity, as well as the most effective assessments, interventions and care planning.
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The module details how certain kinds of surgery (often colectomies) are helpful or necessary (for about 20 to 40 percent of IBD patients), even though such surgeries may involve long recoveries or adjustments.
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This module details how case managers can help patients engage in, and affect, their own care. It explores how shared decision making can help patients engage in the process, while looking at how healthcare providers can help the process by being more attuned to a patient’s psychosocial needs.
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This module begins by looking at the most common pharmaceutical treatments, such as 5-ASA compounds and corticosteroids, which can help with inflammation due to IBD; and biologic agents, which act as anti-tumor necrosis factor agents.
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First, this module details the different symptoms of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, and how the medical workups are both similar to (and a little different from) each other—and what other illnesses can be associated with such symptoms.
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This module offers an introduction to two major, chronic and idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases: ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), both of which cause inflammation and swelling of the digestive or gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
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This module finishes the HF course by looking at the ways that case managers—who interact with heart failure patents at many steps along the disease path—can best coordinate their efforts with the transdisciplinary team of healthcare providers.
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Lifestyle changes can have a positive effect on HF patients, and this module details best practices for eating and exercising. It starts by looking at the importance of a low-sodium diet, and offering tips on how to lower one’s daily salt intake; it then explains creative ways to get exercise, from daily walking to waltzing.
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This module looks at the best strategies for helping patients make those changes—from understanding behavior change pathways to identifying patients at risk for non-adherence. It also details some concrete ways case managers and healthcare professionals can support patients, using motivational interviewing and the teach-back method.
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First, the module details the different kinds of invasive procedures (such as inserting a ventricular assist device, or VAD, or performing coronary artery bypass grafting, or CABG). The module also explores less-invasive interventions, such as telemedicine, which allows healthcare providers to monitor HF patients’ symptoms remotely.
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First, the module explains how specific types of medications—such as ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) or diuretics—can help patients with different stages or symptoms of HF. The module then details the possible side effects or contraindications of the most common drugs, and even how some drugs, when used together—such as hydralazine and nitrates—work better in combination than they each would alone.
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