Course Descriptions
Course 1: (Online) Professional Orientation to Life Care Planning
This course provides an overview of the life care planning process from initial patient referral to completion of the full report and life care plan with all the appropriate foundation and support. The course takes students through the steps of data development, analysis of medical and health-related professional records, research and review of clinical practice guidelines and relevant research literature and linking this information to recommendations in the plan.
Objectives:
- Identify the theoretical and applied foundations of life care planning.
- Understand that life care planning evolved from the disciplines of developmental psychology, applied behavior analysis, and case management.
- Recognize that adherence to a consistent methodology is essential to developing
an effective life care plan.
- Recognize the multidimensional and transdisciplinary nature of the life care planning process.
- Locate essential information from medical, educational, vocational, and other patient records and learn to link this data directly to necessary recommendations in the Life Care Plan.
- Learn to build a bullet point chart to document recommendations through the essential links between recommendations and collected records.
- Understand how clinical practice guidelines and relevant research literature can be used not only to frame questions to the treatment team but also can form a critical part of developing foundation for plan recommendations.
- Describe the roles and functions of members of the treatment team.
- Learn the most efficient and effective research techniques for costing plan recommendations.
- Explain the process for identifying vocational goals and incorporating them into
the life care plan.
Course 2: (Online) Medical and Psychological Aspects of
Life Care Planning with Spinal Courd Injury: Adult and Pediatric
This course identifies the most up to date resources for remaining current on the medical and psychological consequences of spinal cord injuries. The primary focus is on the long-term consequences of paraplegia and tetraplegia as well as the combined effects of age and disability requiring phase changes in the life care planning process. Information on the care of ventilator-dependent spinal cord patients is included and the differences between providing care plans for the adult versus pediatric patient is outlined.
Objectives:
- Identify the basic structures of the spinal column and the segments of the spinal cord.
- Describe the basic functions of the spinal column, spinal cord, and central nervous system.
- Explain how spinal cord injuries are classified.
- Understand the fundamentals of life care planning for the paraplegic.
- Understand the fundamentals of life care planning for the tetraplegic.
- Understand the psychological aspects of spinal cord injury.
- Understand the fundamental differences in planning for the pediatric versus
adult spinal cord patient.
- Understand the process of aging with spinal cord injury and the concept of declination charts.
- Use of clinical practice guidelines with spinal cord injury.
Course 3: (Online) Medical and Psychological Aspects of
Life Care Planning with Brain Injury: Adult and Pediatric
This course has a focus on the medical and psychological consequences of brain injuries and cerebral vascular accidents (CVA/stroke), including family, community, and vocational variables, with considerations for both Adult and the Pediatric cases. The course will be split between traumatic onset brain injury adult and pediatric and birth onset brain injury such a cerebral palsy. Because the nature of the etiology significantly impacts the nature of the outcome with respect to cognitive, psychological, social, behavioral and motoric deficits, the life care planning needs and recommendations are adjusted in each instance.
Objectives:
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Describe the functional outcomes most commonly exhibited by patients within each category
of traumatic brain injury (TBI) Cite the complications most frequently reported by individuals with varying levels of traumatic brain injury.
- Describe how cognitive retraining programs and brain injury rehabilitation programs are designed, and identify the techniques commonly used to improve functional skills.
- Explain the importance of discharge planning and the options for individuals upon discharge from a post-acute rehabilitation facility.
- Cite the variables that affect the decision-making process when placement and treatment issues are being considered for an individual patient.
- Describe the purpose of transitional living/work programs.
- Identify vocational handicaps commonly experienced by individuals with traumatic brain injury.
- Cite the physical, cognitive, and emotional impairments that commonly follow a cerebrovascular accident and the life care planning needs for the cerebral palsy patient
- Explain how a rehabilitation professional can assist young people who have experienced congenital brain damage.
Course 4: (Online) Medical and Psychological Aspects of Life Care Planning with Amputations: Adult and Pediatric
This course identifies the most up to date resources for remaining current on the medical and psychological consequences of amputation. The primary focus is on the long-term consequences of the various types of amputation and the combined effects of age and disability requiring phase changes in the life care planning process. The impact of multiple amputation and the unique approaches made necessary by infant onset of amputation are also covered. Pediatric versus adult amputation and the differences in prosthetic considerations are also covered.
Objectives:
- Describe the various types of upper extremity amputations.
- Describe the various types of lower extremity amputations.
- Differentiate between the vocational handicaps of patients with upper extremity amputation and those with lower extremity amputation.
- Differentiate between the needs of adult versus pediatric amputations.
- Be able to discuss the increased energy expenditure requirements of BK versus.
- AK amputees when ambulating with their prosthesis.
- Learn the phase changes required in life care planning as the aging process and amputation combine over time.
Course 5: (Online) Medical and Psychological Aspects of Life Care Planning with Multiple Disabilities
This course identifies the basic medical and psychological consequences of multiple disabilities. This information will lay the groundwork necessary to allow the trained professional to develop the foundations necessary for effective life care planning to use either in case management or consultation. The fundamental resources necessary to conduct effective research into data, clinical practice guidelines and relevant literature for each of these disabilities is provided.
Outline:
- Introduction to the medical and psychological aspects of Chronic Pain.
- Sequelae and complications of Chronic Pain.
- Life Care Planning for the Chronic Pain patient
- Introduction to Visual Impairments.
- Sequelae of visual impairments.
- Mobility training and independent living skills with visual impairment.
- Aids for independent function with the visually impaired.
- Life care planning with the visually impaired.
- Introduction to Hearing Impairment.
- Aids for independent function for the hearing impairment.
- Life Care Planning for the Hearing Impaired.
- Introduction to Pulmonary Impairments.
- Life Care planning with Pulmonary Impairments
- Introduction to Immune Disorders
- Life Care Planning with Immune Disorders.
- Introduction to Psychological and Psychiatric Disorders
- Life Care Planning with Psychological and Psychiatric Disorders.
Course 6: (Residential Institute)
Developmental, Forensic, & Vocational Aspects of Life Care Planning
September 22-23, 2008 | Scottsdale, Arizona View Agenda
For room reservations under the room block ($149 single/double), please call the resort toll-free at 1-800-832-2025 and ask for the room block reserved under the International Symposium on Life Care Planning.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call Sheri Jasper at 407-977-3112 or email her at sherijasper@ufl.edu.
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