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6/6/23 - SIS Virtual Event - Home Care Community of Practice Meeting
Tuesday, June 06, 2023, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Category: Events

Members - FREE


Non-Members - $20

 

Virtual Meeting 7:00 pm 

 

Please note - These sessions are not recorded for future viewing.

 

REGISTER HERE

 

Number of Contact Hours: 1.0

 

Link to Webinar will be included in your registration confirmation email.

 

Facilitator(s): Susanne Giannitti OTR/L.

Daniela Pullin, Emily Smail, Sabrina Yee, & Brianna Zelman

 

 

Bio/Background of the Speakers:

ConnOTA community of practice members are OT practitioners who are actively working in home care, who have worked in home care, or are seeking to work in home care.  Members bring their expertise and skillset as well as questions and a strong desire to use social learning theory to learn, share, and pool knowledge.

 

Learning Objectives Attendees Should Achieve:

This hour-long presentation and discussion will allow participants to:
1.    Realize how the lack of caregiver education prior to discharge can lead to adverse events.
2.    Understand the basis for preventing 10% of hospital readmissions can be a vital component of OT and client centered care.
3.    Pool…those resources and knowledge and make them easily available to other CoP members.

 

 

Summary of Event: 

 

Last year, CoPM homecare was approached by four students to participate in their capstone project on Caregiver Education is a MUST for Safe Discharge Home. Many practioners in this group volunteered to be interviewed and we are pleased to have this research shared with us. Lack of caregiver education before d/c leads to alarming increases in adverse events including falls, infections, medication errors and hospital re-admissions. Seventy percent of those events could have been prevented!

 

 

This event is sponsored by Connecticut occupational therapy practitioners. ConnOTA is supporting this event by overseeing the award of CEUs for registered participants.