What's included:

• Two certificates for CEUs

• Extensive Course Manual

• 12 hour Live Course

• 2 hours of Home Study Gerontological Theory

• 10 hours of Pharmacology

• Individual attention from the faculty

• Small classroom environment

• Morning coffee service & afternoon soda break in most cities

• Special unpublished hotel rates for course attendees (when available)

Course Overview:

Test-taking and Study Strategies for Success


Extensive Review of System-Specific Health Problems

♦ Establishing rapport

♦ Counseling patients

♦ Discussion of difficult situations (prognoses, end-of-life, etc.)

♦ Health promotion/disease prevention

♦ Prevention guidelines

♦ Impact of aging and the continuum of aging

♦ Nutrition

♦ Health screenings

♦ Risk analyses

♦ Influences on care (age, life transitions, socioeconomic, spiritual, psychosocial, and cultural)

♦ Care settings

♦ Cultural sensitivity and competency

♦ Spiritual assessment

♦ Patient and family teaching

♦ Patient rights

♦ Malpractice

♦ Decision-making capacity

♦ Caregiver stress

♦ Violence

♦ Abuse

♦ Neglect

♦ Needs assessments

♦ Evaluating outcomes

♦ Teaching and learning principles

♦ Health care and public policy

Professional Role

♦ Scope of practice

♦ Standards of practice

♦ Continuous quality improvement

♦ Ethical principles

♦ Advocating and negotiating for the patient

Health Care Policy and Delivery

♦ Regulatory processes

♦ Billing and coding

♦ Reimbursement

♦ Advanced directives

♦ Power of attorney

♦ Informed consent

♦ Emancipation

♦ Guardianship

♦ Federal guidelines

♦ Documentation

Clinical Management

♦ Evidence-based practice

♦ Research utilization

♦ Clinical practice guidelines

♦ Evaluating evidence

♦ Best practices

♦ Epidemiology

♦ Infection control

♦ Disease prevention

♦ Infectious diseases

♦ Documentation

♦ Reporting infectious diseases

♦ Formulating plans of care

♦ Age-specific guidelines

♦ Clinical decision-making

♦ Pharmacotherapeutics

♦ Nonpharmacologic interventions

♦ Multidisciplinary and planned transitions of care

♦ Prioritization

♦ Coordination of care

♦ Palliative and end-of-life care

♦ Evaluation of treatment

♦ Resource allocation

♦ Epidemiology

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