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ADPH-20110309 Caring for Difficult Patients


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Course Description

 

Please enroll in this course to be notified when the link to the archived Webcast becomes available.

If you are available to view the free live webcast on March 9, 2011 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern Time, simply enroll, register with Alabama Department of Public Health at http://www.adph.org/ALPHTN/Default.asp?id=1884, and view the program live.

Patients can be difficult for a variety of reasons: personal, psychological, medical. While the reasons for a patient’s behavior vary, the one thing that’s constant is the notion that at some point, you will care for a difficult patient. So how do you provide them with clinically and ethically sound care?

Program faculty will discuss this and offer suggestions on how to create a more positive environment for your difficult patient’s care.

 

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify medical and caregiver situations that increase stress.

2. Develop ways to respond to patients and caregivers exhibiting stress.

3. Identify negative behaviors related to depression and learn ways to communicate with depressed patients.

4. Identify negative behaviors associated with dementia and delirium.

5. Develop methods to better communicate and care for patients with dementia and delirium.

 

FACULTY:

Carolyn O’Bryan-Miller, LCSW, PIP

Social Work Consultant 

Bureau of Home and Community Services 

Alabama Department of Public Health

 

Course Co-sponsored By

  • Alabama Public Health Training Network
  • Average Completion Time

    2 hours

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    Course Competencies

    There are no competencies currently assigned to this course