Iowa Physical Therapy 38-hour CE Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Ambulation, Balance and Falls in Older Adults 3Rehabilitation professionals evaluate and treat older adults in a variety of settings. One of the common factors across all settings is that with aging changes are seen in gait and balance. These changes place older adults at an increased risk for falls. It is critical that rehabilitation professionals have an understanding of these changes that occur so that they can properly evaluate and treat these patients, ultimately minimizing fall risk. This course will discuss fall risk factors and assessment of these factors including the most appropriate standardized assessments to be utilized. It will also explore interventions with emphasis not only on therapeutic exercise but on assistive devices, medications, and environmental modifications as well.
- Anger Management: Helping Parents Cope 4
Course release date: 10/09/2023
About the Course
The purpose of this basic, introductory course is to provide clinicians with tools to support parent competence, serving as a resource for them (Czapanskiy, 2014). Parents play a significant role in a child’s development. They require strategies to help them connect with and nurture their children. Most important, the support of parents might include assisting them in managing their own emotions, (Harvey, 2017), most particularly anger.
- Application of Learning Theories to Professional Practice 1Course release date: 1/10/23
Practitioners in various health professions often engage in teaching and learning roles, such as providing education to their clients, training a student during a clinical rotation, or educating their interdisciplinary teams about their discipline. In fact, it is now essential that health professionals engage in educational roles to provide and sustain high quality care. As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, so does the role of educator in order to best meet a variety of diverse needs across various practice settings. However, a majority of practitioners’ education is focused on their discipline specific knowledge and skills needed to effectively evaluate and treat clients; leaving less time to understand how to effectively teach or to understand how people actually learn. This introductory course will be broad enough to (1) meet both of these needs or practitioners and educators and (2) to target many health professionals engaged in teaching and learning roles [e.g. occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, nursing]. The author will briefly introduce teaching and learning roles and discuss the importance of theory use to guide educational experiences. They will describe two relevant theories, give a picture of what these theories might look like in action, and apply each of these theories to actual practice and educational scenarios.
- Conservative and Surgical Management of the Osteoarthritic Hand and Wrist, 3rd Edition 2Course release date: 1/23/2023
The course offers practitioners in-depth knowledge of several of the most common medical and evidence-based treatments for wrist and hand osteoarthritis and provides instruction for application of techniques in OT evaluation and intervention. - Creative Wound Care Education: What Does Staff Need to Know? 2
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course
This session will examine the foundations of wound care education for staff in therapy settings. Using multiple examples, this course will?examine key elements (role of multidisciplinary team, documentation and reimbursement, prevention, wound assessment and wound treatment) of effective education and introduce strategies for making wound care learning engaging and fun to support delivered wound care services. - Differential Diagnosis for Headaches and Cervical Spine Pain 3
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course:
When evaluating head and neck pain in physical therapy, we must recognize that many conditions share similar signs and symptoms. This course presents information to help the evaluating clinician determine when a client’s symptoms may be the result of systemic or viscerogenic causes and when referral to another healthcare provider is indicated. In addition, this course presents a framework for differentiating and assigning the appropriate diagnosis for neuromuscular and/or musculoskeletal conditions. - Frozen Shoulder Management and Manual Treatment Strategies 2Release Date: 7/10/23About the course
Shoulder dysfunctions causing painful stiffness are endemic issues, causing clinical challenges and conflicting treatment guidelines. Common terminology of frozen shoulder and adhesive capsulitis share significant and long duration impairments. This advanced course reviews pathophysiology of these conditions, the natural history associated with idiopathic frozen shoulder and essential assessment findings.
Based on updated scientific evidence, a review and compilation of available interventions of conservative, medical and invasive options is presented. The role of manual therapy methodology is featured. Due to variability in patient progress and manual therapy approaches, specific guidelines on type, timing, position and amplitude are investigated to standardize joint mobilization efforts. Finally, treatment program principles of patient education, suggested number of visits, daily clinical visit structure, management of plateaus and beneficial integration with medical/invasive procedures are discussed. The purpose of this course is to provide clinicians with an evidenced- based approach on treating frozen shoulder and associated conditions.
- Interprofessional Evidence-Based Cardiopulmonary Management Protocols 6
Course release date: 2/16/2023
About the Course
This engaging video course reviews the physiology and pathophysiology of cardiovascular and related pulmonary disease processes, as well as common surgical cardiac procedures and the effects of different comorbidities, to familiarize practitioners with diagnostic factors, to then optimize care for their cardiac patients.Practitioners will learn current interprofessional clinical protocols for ongoing monitoring of clinical risks, exercise limitations, exercise training models, and patient education. Case studies are shared throughout this course for practical application, and collaboration of all interprofessional members will be stressed for effective client centered care. Clinicians will be empowered to utilize this information in their everyday practice for a range of settings, to include acute hospitals, clinics, skilled nursing facilities and home health.
- Practical Applications of Ethics in Physical Therapy 2
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course
Practical Applications of Ethics in Physical Therapy was designed to educate the healthcare professional in understanding the basic theories and approaches to ethical decision making. - Supporting Your Skills in Documentation: Screens to Client-Centered Care in Long-Term Care Settings 2
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course
Complete and thorough documentation is the foundation for successful reimbursement of therapy services. Participants will learn how to evaluate and articulate the medical necessity of their client, illustrate the complexity of their skills to support the necessity of their treatment plans, and recognize what constitutes appropriate documentation through specific examples.? - The Essentials of Infection Prevention 4
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course
The COVID-19 pandemic made all healthcare workers acutely aware of infection prevention and control measures. The pandemic has highlighted the need for ongoing education to maintain a knowledge and skill level appropriate for implementing strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections and to prepare for the next pandemic. Understanding where reservoirs are harboring pathogens and strategies to prevent transmission in healthcare settings is critical. This course will examine best practices for infection prevention, such as hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, transmission-based precautions, cleaning and disinfection, and injection safety
- The Use of Physical Agents in Treating Neurological Disorders 4There is strong evidence to support the use of physical agent modalities during physical and occupational therapy for patients with neurological disorders. This course will look at four conditions that are common with neurological disorders: spasticity, weakness, pain, and contractures. After summarizing the evidence to support their use, we will outline the use of TENS to minimize spasticity, NMES to address weakness, TENS for central neuropathic pain, and deep and superficial heat in treating contractures. Specific protocols are offered and demonstrations of each protocol is included. As an adjunct to other aspects of rehabilitation, physical agent modalities can add variety to and increase the effectiveness of your plan of care for patients with stroke, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
- Therapeutic Exercise and the Older Adult: An Evidence-Based Approach, 3rd Edition 2Course Release date: 2/20/23
This intermediate-level course is designed to educate occupational and physical therapy practitioners on the implementation of exercise prescriptions in older adults. This course will review the multiple age-related systemic changes that take place in the cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, interstitial and musculoskeletal systems and describe how exercise may mitigate these changes. This course will also provide recommended exercise programs according to the most recent American College of Sports Medicine guidelines for older adults and discuss common barriers for exercise participation in older adults. It will also describe how changes after an exercise intervention can be measured by providing several clinical measures that can routinely and easily be implemented in clinical practice. Finally, this course will discuss special concerns, such as the need for medical screening prior to establishing a new exercise program, and special considerations when recommending exercise for individuals with comorbid conditions common in older populations, such as osteoarthritis, chronic pain, diabetes, dementia, and obesity. At the end of this course, practitioners should be able to comfortably recommend, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive exercise program for older adults. - Therapeutic Yoga after Knee Replacement 1
Course release: 2/28/23
About the course
Knowledge of safe and effective evidence-based yoga poses for knee rehabilitation can assist physical therapists in prescribing therapeutic exercises after Total Knee Replacement.