Caring for a patient at home with a tracheostomy tube requires the support and individual attention of an interdisciplinary tracheostomy home care team. The presenter will discuss the steps to forming a home tracheostomy tube including team composition, protocols and educational processes. The role of the closed position tracheostomy valve will also be emphasized. This one hour course will provide for respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists, nurses and other health care professionals working in the home care environment an overview of the importance of the integrated team approach
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Home Care Tracheostomy Team: Navigating and Networking is offered by Passy-Muir for speech-language pathologists, respiratory therapists. Topics in this listing: Professional practice.
Choose the credit track that matches your role; the listed tracks are alternatives, not a combined total. The provider handles enrollment, completion and the certificate.
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Listed roles: Speech-Language Pathologist
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Listed roles: Respiratory Therapist
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The recorded cost is $0 for learning, assessment and the certificate, with no separate reporting fee identified. Passy-Muir requires a free account. The provider identifies this activity as free continuing education. Complete the stated assessment and claiming requirements.
The provider lists 0.15 ASHA CEU; 1.5 AARC CRCE. These are separate credit tracks, not hours to add together. Recorded roles: Speech-Language Pathologist, Respiratory Therapist. Match the individual track below to your credential and board before enrolling.
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Team building strategies and suggestions for the implementation of an inter-disciplinary airway management team to improve patient outcomes are the focus of this presentation. Resources and models are offered with questions and answers. It is recommended that you complete Application of Passy Muir® Swallowing and Speaking Valves prior to registering for this course.
Effective communication is paramount in the critical care environment regarding end of life issues. Patient participation in their care is both a patient right and legal requirement. This webinar will include identification of various communication methods, including use of a one way tracheostomy speaking valve. Researched evidence will be used to provide the purpose, goals and methods for a patient population for whom communication needs are often undervalued and under-served. This course is intended for nurses, respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists and other health care profes
This webinar is a review of the anatomy and physiology of the upper airway, with a focus on the aerodigestive nature of this system, and the lower respiratory system, including descriptions of the structures and neurophysiology of voice and respiration. Descriptions of common respiratory diseases and how those diseases may be complicated even further with the placement of a tracheostomy tube will be explained. Complications of the tracheostomy tube will be discussed.
