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Only $79 for the entire series (9 CEs)...Group discounts $49 Each

Cardiac Rehab:

Enhancing Leadership and Administrative Skills

A Continuing Education course for healthcare professionals

9 Content Hours

$79/$49

Course Description:
Clinicians often find themselves thrust into a position of leadership without the tools they need to coordinate and lead a program or department. This vital course provides many helpful strategies and tools for enhancing your success whether you are new to your position, or a seasoned manager/director. You will learn how to market (or sell your program), to develop/expand your program services, and to measure your program’s progress through adherence to a budget. You will also learn performance improvement tools for your cardiac rehab tool belt and why these are key to your success.

For those who are interested in program certification, this course identifies the essential components and standards of care that are required for the practice of cardiac rehab. Lastly, but most importantly, a successful program relies on a strong team. You will learn interviewing skills, creation of an orientation program, and how to give an employee performance review. This course provides many practical tools that you will be able to integrate into your program very readily.

Who Should Be Interested:
Nurses, exercise physiologist, PT/OT, RTs, administrators, cardiac rehab staff.
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Presenters:
Rose Seholm RN, MSN, FAACVPR - Classes #1, 2, 6
Bill Priest, BS BA, MS - Classes #3, 4
Karen Lui, RN, MS, BSN, FAACVPR - Class #5

Class Schedule:

Marketing strategies: How to Sell your program: From the inside out
Building Your Team: It's all about the people
Quality and Performance Improvements in CR
Budgeting & Reimbursement Update
Creating Policy & Procedures based on Guidelines & Program Certification
Innovative Programming: Creating your Business Plan

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#1 Marketing strategies: How to Sell your program: From the inside out

Topics:
1. Marketing within your organization: cultivating relationships with other departments and services
2. “Selling” your program to the medical staff
3. Collaborating with local community service clubs and pharmaceutical companies

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:
1. List the departments and people within your organization that impact your program(s).
2. Identify strategies to educate health care providers about your services.
3. Identify ways to educate and involve the community in your program.

#2 Building Your Team: It's all about the people

Topics:
1. Behavior-based interviewing of new job applicants
2. Developing an orientation/preceptor program
3. How to conduct an employee performance review

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the types of questions to ask a job applicant.
2. List the components of an orientation/preceptor program.
3. Identify how the link between a job description and performance review are related.
4. Be able to create a performance improvement action plan.

#3 Quality and Performance Improvements in CR

Topics:
1. All work is a process.
2. Process improvement tools for the cardiac rehab tool belt.
3. Examples of the 5 Why’s, LEAN, Six Sigma, garaging and spaghetti diagrams.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:
1. Identify process improvement models.
2. Apply process improvement concept to cardiac rehab.
3. List opportunities to improve work processes in your cardiac rehab program.

#4 Budgeting & Reimbursement Update

Topics:
1. The history and future of reimbursement in cardiac rehab.
2. Understanding and improving cardiac rehab revenue.
3. The expense side of cardiac rehab – it’s all about people.
4. Ideas for improving the financial picture of your program.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the history or cardiac rehab reimbursement and the outlook for the future.
2. Show opportunities to improve revenue generation in cardiac rehab.
3. Identify the expense drivers in cardiac rehab.

#5 Creating Policy & Procedures based on Guidelines & Program Certification

Topics:
1. Identify the current documents that set essential standards of care for the practice of cardiac rehabilitation (CR).
2. Identify components of your CR program that are necessary for AACVPR program certification.
3. Be familiar with “paperwork and processes” that will assure the inclusion of these critical components.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:
1. Recognizing the science that justifies and supports the practice of CR.
2. Incorporating that science into the program you provide to your patients.
3. Automated systems to achieve 100% data collection-your staff will thank you.
4. Certification is easy once you have all the pieces in place.

#6 Innovative Programming: Creating your Business Plan

Topics:
1. Taking the concept from an idea to fruition.
2. Components of a plan include a SWOT analysis, financial proforma, community needs assessment, timeline, inclusion of key players, staffing, capital purchases, location of service.
3. How to measure the success of your program/service.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives::
1. Understand the process to develop a new program/service.
2. List the steps for creating a financial proforma.
3. Identify methods to measure program/service success.

Accreditation Information

Nurses – Academy Medical Systems is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 9 contact hours will be rewarded to nursing professionals at the completion of this workshop.

Academy Medical Systems is also a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider #CEP14413, for 9 hours. AMS is an approved provider of the Florida Board of Nursing, provider # 50-19, for 9 hours.

Iowa Nurses - The Iowa Board of Nurses will recognize the recorded webinars as a home study program. They recognize our ANCC approved provider status as well as our CA and Fl Board of Nursing provider approval for home study products for nurses in Iowa.

All other states recognize our approved provider status listed in the above text for continuing education credit for nurses.

Dietitians – Academy Medical Systems is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) will receive 9 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this material.

Exercise Physiologist – ACSM recognizes AMS’s approved provider status with the ANCC and will honor continuing education hour for Certified Exercise Physiologist recertification purposes.

Physical Therapists – PTs in the following states will receive 9 contact hours: CO, CT, DE, IA, ID, KS, MI, MA, MT, NE, NH, NM, NC, ND, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WY.

We are an approved provider to offer continuing competency courses to CA PTs, approval date 4/5/10.

The following state boards recognize other state’s approval: AL, AZ, GA (Class 1), KY, MO, MS, OK (Cat 2), TN (Cat 1), WI.

Occupational Therapists – Occupational Therapist will receive 9, type II, continuing education hours for completion this program and a test score of 70% or better. AMS is an approved provider for the AOTA , provider # 5470. Intermediate educational level.

Certified Athletic Trainers – Academy Medical Systems is recognized by the Board of Certification (BOC) to offer continuing education for certified athletic trainers. 9 hours will be awarded at the completion of this program.

Call our Accreditation Dept at 866-414-3500 with questions.

Respiratory Therapists - This course meets the requirements for continuing education for Respiratory Care Professionals in AL, CA, CT, DE, FL, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MA, MN, MS, MT, NE, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, RI, SC, TN, TX, WA, WV, WY.

Because each state’s continuing education requirements for respiratory therapists is subject to change, please verify this information with your state board. Thank you.

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