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AGITATION: THINK ABOUT PAIN!
LIVE COURSE May 25, 2022 | 2 p.m.-3:15 p.m. | Cost $79
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS OFFERED
Overview NJHA and LeadingAge NJ & DE are pleased to co-host this seminar.
Agitation often is misread by caregivers and medical professionals who do not realize that these behaviors can be caused by pain. Symptoms can include mood lability, depression, delusions, psychosis and paranoia. Behaviors can include poor self-care, inappropriate voiding and poor social skills.
The faculty for this session will cover these behaviors and examine how the pain and agitation can best be treated and how medications, as well as behavioral intervention, can help. This seminar will answer the questions: How do you assess the causes of agitation? How do you use behavioral techniques to alleviate agitation? How do you utilize medications for pain and other physical symptoms?
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
Faculty
Elizabeth Landsverk, MD, Founder, ElderConsult Geriatric Medicine
Target Audience
Care providers and administrators in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and programs, dementia care homes, independent senior living, home health and hospice agencies, PACE, adult medical day care.
Continuing Education Accreditation Statement
New Jersey State Nurses Association Accreditation Statement HRETNJ is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nursing Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity is approved for 1.25 contact hours. Provisional number – P131-3/2022.
Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board Statement: This continuing education program is sponsored/conducted by the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey and is in compliance with N.J.A.C. 8:34-7.3 to provide licensed nursing home administrator (LNHA) and certified assisted living administrator (CALA) credits accepted by the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board. This education activity may only be used for continuing education credit and not to meet academic college credits.
This education activity has been approved for 1.25 LNHA/CALA credits.
