Idaho Physical Therapist Continuing Education

Idaho Accepts OnlineCE.com Courses

 

Idaho Continuing Education Requirements:

PT: 16 hrs annually - Idaho Accepts 16 hours of Online Continuing Education Courses

 

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Continuing Education Requirements for Certified Hand Therapists:  

The Hand Therapy Certification Commission (HTCC) is the governing body that is responsible for credentialing certified hand therapists (CHT). In order to maintain the CHT credential, a CHT must accumulate a minimum of 80 contact hours of professional development activities during their five-year accrual period. Professional development hours may be earned in seven different categories. OnlineCE.com offers courses in 3 Categories: A, B and C.

Category A - Formal Courses in Upper Extremity Therapy, 3 hours or more in length. All 80 hours can be earned in this category. HTCC Accepts OnlineCE courses.

Category B - Informal Courses in Upper Extremity Therapy, less than 3 hours in length. Maximum accepted: 30 hours per 5-year accrual cycle. HTCC Accepts OnlineCE courses.

Category C - Formal Courses with General Clinical OT or PT content. Maximum accepted: 20 hours per 5-year accrual cycle. HTCC Accepts OnlineCE courses.

 


State of Idaho Continuing Education Requirements

Idaho Continuing Education requirements posted on this page are based upon the most up to date information available. Idaho continuing education requirements are subject to change and therefore, Idaho PT/PTA licensee's are ultimately responsible for being up to date with the Idaho continuing education requirements.

 

Continuing education courses offered on OnlineCE.com provide Online CEU for Idaho Physical Therapists (PT) and Idaho Physical Therapy Assistants (PTA). The online courses enhance the knowledge bases of PT/PTA to enhance clinical therapy practice. Free 1 hour online home study CE credit course for new Idaho Physical Therapy and Physical Therapy Assistant registered users at www.OnlineCE.com

 
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Differential Diagnosis 104 : Screening the Chest, Breast and Ribs
2.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$36.00 USD

Case Studies, Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Describe 3 key points in using the screening model to evaluate the chest, breast and ribs
  • Define and differentiate systemic causes of pain from neuromuscular causes of pain
  • Describe 3 key points for screening for oncologic causes of chest or rib pain
  • Describe 3 key points for screening for cardiovascular causes of chest, breast or rib pain
  • Describe 3 key points for screening for gastrointestinal causes of chest, breast or rib pain
  • Read case studies that highlight clinical application

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Differential Diagnosis 105 : Screening the Shoulder and Upper Extremity
2.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$36.00 USD

Case Studies, Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Describe 3 ways to use the screening model for evaluating the shoulder and upper extremity
  • Outline and differentiate systemic and medical conditions as causes of shoulder and upper extremity symptoms
  • Discuss identification and location of pain based on systemic origin
  • Describe the importance of screening for cardiovascular and pulmonary causes of pain
  • Describe the importance of screening for additional and a variety of other causes of shoulder pain

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Documentation 201 : Payment Policy and Coding
1.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$18.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Provide a brief overview of health care reform and its impact on physical therapy and third-party payers in context of reform environment
  • Describe Medicare settings that outpatient services are provided in, as well as the characteristic policies and key compliance elements required by Medicare and other third-party payers
  • Outline Medicare guidelines for documenting skilled therapy services
  • List the components of documentation for Medicare, including initial evaluations including plan of care, progress notes, session notes, reevaluations, and discharge summaries
  • Understand basics of functional limitation reporting, physician quality reporting system and diagnosis coding and CPT coding for billing and payment purposes
  • Summarize guidelines for CPT coding that may facilitate payment for services and minimize payment delays and denials

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Documentation 202 : Developing and Documenting Effective Goals
1.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$18.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Differentiate between goals and outcomes
  • Describe the important aspects of writing goals at the participation, activity, and impairment levels
  • Distinguish between short-term and long-term goals
  • Describe the essential components of a well-written functional goal Identify poorly written goals and make modifications to goals
  • Appropriately document participation and activity goals for a written report

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Documentation 203 : Documenting the Plan of Care
1.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$18.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Identify and describe the components of documentation of the plan of care
  • Appropriately document a plan of care as part of an initial evaluation
  • Discuss the importance of documenting informed consent

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Documentation 204 : Documentation in Pediatrics
1.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$18.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Describe the laws governing documentation in early intervention and school-based settings in the United States
  • Identify commonly used standardized assessments in early intervention and school-based settings
  • Document components of early intervention evaluations and session notes, which are family-centered, child-specific, routines-based, and aligned with the natural environment
  • Document components of school-based evaluations and session notes, which are child-centered and specific to the school setting
  • Create goals for a pediatric client based on best practice standards, including making goals child-centered, context-specific and addressing specific tasks or functional activities

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Documentation 205 : Documenting Reason for Referral: Health Condition and Participation
1.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$18.00 USD

Case Studies, Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Identify and classify various aspects of documenting reason for referral, including a patient’s background information, health condition, medications, past medical history, social history/participation, and prior functional status
  • Explain the 3 key elements of describing a patient's current health condition
  • Discuss the implications of direct access for documenting medical diagnoses
  • Describe the process of conducting an interview to obtain information pertaining to gathering history data
  • Appropriately document elements of reason for referral based on case scenarios

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Documentation 206 : Documenting Reason for Referral: Participation and Social History
1.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$18.00 USD

Case Studies, Text

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  • Describe the components of documenting participation, social history, and general health status
  • Describe the usefulness of standardized outcome measures for documenting participation
  • Describe the process of conducting an interview to obtain information pertaining to level of participation, social history, and general health status
  • Document these components with accuracy and specificity
  • Read and analyze clinical examples emphasized with case examples

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Documentation 207 : Documenting Activities
1.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$18.00 USD

Case Studies, Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Define activities and function
  • Discuss the factors involved in deciding which activities should be included in physical therapy documentation, including consideration of benchmark activities
  • Identify and classify various aspects of documenting activities
  • Appropriately categorize activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living
  • Document activities using a skill-based framework

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Edema 101 : Edema: An Overview
1.0

Kristyn Fletcher, PT, DPT, CLT

$18.00 USD

AudioVisual Course

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  • Define edema 
  • List 3 key features of different types of edema 
  • Differentiate between different types of edema 
  • Examine and explain how to identify different types of edema 
  • Describe three treatment approaches for various types of edema

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Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Emergency Procedures 101 : Preparing for Common Medical Emergencies
1.0

Brett Kinsler, DC

$18.00 USD

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  • Know how to prepare for a medical emergency
  • Review four emergency medical conditions: Stroke, Heart Attack, Difficulty Breathing, Diabetic Emergencies
  • Recognize the causes, symptoms and signs for these emergencies
  • Understand how to provide the appropriate emergency treatments

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Emergency Procedures 102 : Developing an Emergency Preparedness Manual for Your Office and Review CPR Changes
1.0

Brett Kinsler, DC

$18.00 USD

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  • Gain the knowledge to develop an Emergency Preparedness Manual for your office
  • Define crisis management procedures in advance for fires, child abduction, workplace violence, bomb threats and other situations
  • Explain the importance of an emergency continuity plan
  • Recognize why CPR was changed and compare the new rules
  • Perform more effective CPR even before you refresh your certification

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Emergency Procedures 103 : Preparing for Altered Mental Status, Burns and Allergic Reactions
1.0

Brett Kinsler, DC

$18.00 USD

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  • Recognize Altered Mental Status and apply the appropriate emergency response
  • Distinguish types of Burns, their mechanisms of injury and pathophysiology
  • Plan for the treatment of burns and the appropriate emergency response
  • Apply and use the Rule of Nines
  • Recognize Allergic Reactions, discuss their pathophysiology and the proper emergency response

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 201 : Legal Foundations
1.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$18.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Describe the basis of the American legal system
  • Compare and contrast constitutional, statutory, common and administrative law
  • List the differences between criminal and civil law
  • Explain the civil litigation explosion
  • Summarize tort reform

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 202 : Ethical Foundations
1.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$18.00 USD

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  • Differentiate morals and ethics
  • Explain the purpose of professional codes of ethics
  • Compare and contrast legal and professional health care ethics
  • Define situational ethics
  • Identify the four principles of biomedical ethics

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 203 : The Law of Health Care Malpractice
2.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$36.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • List the external and internal factors affecting the exposure to malpractice liability
  • Describe the legal basis for imposing malpractice liability of a patient injury
  • Define the concept of abandonment
  • Outline the four elements needed to prove malpractice
  • Compare and contrast ordinary negligence versus professional negligence
  • Explain vicarious liability
  • Summarize defenses to malpractice actions
  • Describe the importance of patient care documentation

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 204 : Intentional Wrongs
2.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$36.00 USD

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  • Describe the concept of intentional torts
  • Differentiate assault and battery
  • Define defamation, slander and libel
  • Summarize the mandatory reporting requirements for health care professionals
  • Outline the four principle forms of invasion of privacy
  • Classify the types of criminal activity 
  • Describe the steps in a criminal prosecution
  • Explain the classifications of homicide

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 205 : Ethical and Legal Issues in Employment
2.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$36.00 USD

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  • Differentiate employment at will versus employment under contract
  • Summarize the history of federal regulation of labor – management relations
  • Describe the five major sections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
  • Recognize sexual harassment in the workplace
  • Define “ordinary reasonable person” as it pertains to sexual harassment
  • Differentiate the vicarious liability of an employer relative to employees and independent contractors
  • Explain the considerations in writing a letter of recommendation
  • Outline the requirements for an enforceable restrictive covenant

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 206 : Business Law and Ethics
2.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$36.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Summarize the antitrust laws
  • Discuss the importance of the attorney – heath care professional client relationship
  • Define the elements of a binding contract
  • Explain breach of contract and possible contractual remedies
  • Describe the various forms of business organization
  • Outline the good Samaritan laws
  • Recognize the requirements for HIPAA compliance
  • Assess the necessity and limitations of professional liability insurance

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 207 : Legal and Ethical Issues in Education
1.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$18.00 USD

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  • Summarize the major federal statutes regulating education
  • Discuss federal education law derived from constitutional protections
  • Outline a risk management strategy for academic discipline in health professional educational programs
  • Assess liability for student conduct in the clinical setting
  • Outline procedures to minimize liability when incorporating students in the clinical setting

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 208 : Ethics in Focus
2.0

Richard Saporito, DC

$36.00 USD

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  • Explain patient informed consent to intervention
  • List the requirements of sufficient informed consent
  • Describe pertinent considerations in life and death decision making including euthanasia
  • Recognize issues of nondiscrimination against participants in health care delivery
  • Explain pro bono health care services
  • Outline professional practice issues of financial responsibility and gifts
  • Summarize the ethical issues of impaired providers and intra and inter-professional relations
  • Define the ethical issues in research and the informed consent process

Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
Expires: 2025-12-31

Ethical Awareness 209 : Ethics in Sports Medicine
10.0

Joanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

$180.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Journal Article Review, Text

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  • Analyze the sport and the history of ethics in sports medicine
  • Write down and describe 5 principles of ethics
  • Describe 3 reasons why the practice of ethics in sports medicine is challenging and differentiate the doctor-patient-team triad relationship versus the traditional doctor-patient relationship
  • List and outline 4 contextual factors that influence confidentiality in sports medicine
  • Describe how various professionals manage confidentiality in sports
  • Outline and describe 5 categories of policy recommendations
  • Define the term conflict of interest concepts
  • List 2 areas where conflict of interest concepts is most likely to be seen
  • Analyze how clinical decision making can be altered by competing interests
  • Summarize how commonly used analgesics are used in athletes and describe the ethical implications of their use in athletic settings
  • Outline how analgesics are used in sports medicine including oral and injectable narcotic and non-narcotic medications
  • List 3 side effects of narcotic analygesics
  • Describe the legal significance of being the team physician
  • Analyze and discuss 2 emerging legal issues
  • Cite 2 reasons for the significance of concussions and prescription drug use
  • List and describe 5 problems in the identification and diagnosis of concussion
  • Describe the implication involved in same-day return-to-play
  • Outline the procedures for auditing and recording injury and concussion
  • Understand and list 3 reasons why confidentiality is imperative with concussion
  • Discuss the standard of care that should apply to the medical care of a professional athlete
  • Outline and analyze the proposed that standard of medical care should apply to all patients
  • List 3 reasons why the system should adopt a policy that facilitates competitive sports participation, while minimizing the risk of long-term injury
  • List 5 symptoms of eating disorders and describe why they are more prevalent in high performance gymnasts than the normal population
  • Define, compare and contrast 5 different forms of eating disorders
  • Outline and describe the classification system of eating disorders
  • List and describe 5 diagnostic criteria for 3 different each disorders
  • List 3 reasons why IAAF Hyperandrogenism Regulations are flawed on a scientific level and why it has not been proved that testosterone confers an advantage in competition
  • Describe and discuss the 2 levels of inconsistencies- genetic and molecular -that are raised with the IAAF Hyperandrogenism
  • Outline 3 ethical reasons why IAAF Hyperandrogenism Regulations raise ethical issues at the level of implementation because the trigger for testing is visual perception
  • Review and recite background information related to research and the ethics of sports medicine
  • Outline and describe the Declaration of Helsinki
  • List and describe 3 application principles of the Declaration of Helsinki

  • Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics 101 : Ethical Communications
    2.0

    Angelica Redleaf, DC

    $38.00 USD

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    • Demonstrate the importance of communicating in an ethical manner and what that entails
    • Develop an understanding of what 'spin' is, why it is unethical and how to monitor and minimize/stop it
    • Evaluate the barriers to effective and ethical communication
    • Develop an understanding of exactly what takes place/needs to take place during the provider/client interaction
    • Discover what it is that patients want from their visits to a provider
    • Appraise how to deal with challenging clients and situations
    • Discover how to become a skilled helper by studying the tools of communication
    • Apply listening skills to the provider's repertoire
    • Demonstrate the importance of the impact of nonverbal communication on the caregiver/client relationship
    • Develop, analyze and apply the verbal and nonverbal skills that will help to gather information and support the patient effectively
    • Write an Ethical Communication Protocol (EPC) for your practice

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics and Aging 201 : Challenges to the Received View
    2.0

    Richard Saporito, DC

    $36.00 USD

    Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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    Hour 1
    • Summarize the history of ethics and aging
    • Define the “Four Principles” approach to bioethics
    • Describe how the focus on autonomy influences medical care for the aging
    • Explain why a singular emphasis on autonomy undermines self-respect and self-identity
    Hour 2
    • Define “Relational” autonomy
    • Explain how a feminist ethic informs the concept of autonomy
    • Summarize the use of the narrative framework in the development of an individual morality
    • Describe communicative ethics

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics and Aging 202 : Aging and the Aged Body
    2.0

    Richard Saporito, DC

    $36.00 USD

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    Hour 1
    • Explain the role society plays in creating the physical self-image as one ages
    • Describe how physical self-image shapes and is shaped by the older individual’s autonomy competency
    • Compare and contrast the strong social constructionist view of aging with the biological view
    • List ways culture influences how aging women view themselves

    Hour 2

    • Define the term, “Third Age”
    • Describe the circumstances unique to. “getting old”
    • Explain the role of privilege in the modern concepts of aging
    • List the ways communities of meaning and shared discourse can be identity confirming for the aging individual

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics and Aging 203 : Anti-aging Medicine and Aging and Public Policy
    2.0

    Richard Saporito, DC

    $36.00 USD

    Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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    Hour 1
    • Define anti-aging medicine
    • Compare and contrast the differing opinions on anti-aging medicine
    • List the moral questions associate with the anti-aging movement
    • Describe how the anti-aging movement is viewed from a feminist perspective
    Hour 2
    • Describe how ethics informs policy
    • List impediments to creating a bridge between ethics and public policy
    • Explain the neo-liberal approach to health care policy for the aged
    • Describe how current health care policy towards the aged in the United States can create generational conflict
    • Compare the feminist ethic of care to the neo-liberal approach

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics and Aging 204 : Care and Justice - Older People at Home
    1.0

    Richard Saporito, DC

    $18.00 USD

    Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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    • Describe the moral questions concerning home care for the elderly
    • Identify the relationship between the cared for and the care giver
    • Explain the focus of governmental programs for dependent elderly care
    • List the values necessary to support elder care at home

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics and Aging 205 : The Nursing Home - Beyond Medicalization
    1.0

    Richard Saporito, DC

    $18.00 USD

    Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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    • Outline the history of the nursing home
    • Describe the evolution of bioethical thought on nursing home care
    • List strategies for creating a more ethical nursing home environment
    • Ways nursing homes can aid residents in addressing end-of-life concerns

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics and Aging 206 : Working With Clients and Patients
    1.0

    Richard Saporito, DC

    $18.00 USD

    Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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    • Give examples of the roots of an ageist attitude in the United States
    • Describe the dynamics of the power relationship between care giver and cared for
    • Explain the issues involved in setting boundaries in the institutional environment
    • Describe the difference between independent and relational autonomy

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31

    Ethics and Aging 207 : What Do We Do Now? Abuse, Neglect, and Self-Neglect
    1.0

    Richard Saporito, DC

    $18.00 USD

    Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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    • Define elder abuse, neglect and self-neglect
    • Describe the “expressive – collaborative” model of approaching ethics
    • Compare and contrast the classical definition of autonomy with “actual autonomy”
    • Explain how remaining in an abusive / neglectful environment may constitute the best alternative for an individual

    Accepted within scope of PT; Approved by other PT Board; Approved PT CE Provider (TX, IL, NY); AOTA Approved Provider
    Expires: 2025-12-31