Chesapeake Health Education Program

Course Info

Protocol Development and Evidence Based Outcomes: Conceptualization to Application

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

This workshop will incorporate a brief historical account of the competition for health care dollars and the push to evidence-based practice in medicine and how it affects clinical practice across disciplines. The presentation will include information from the World Health Organization (WHO) that has developed a unified and standard language which provides descriptions of health and health-related states. The WHO language is focused on what individuals can do or not do in their current health state, rather than on diagnoses, and is integrated into an international code for functioning (ICF). From this background the presenters will provide practical approaches to the conceptualization and implementation of evidence-based functional outcomes that are compatible with the current demands for payment in health care. This session will provide information that can help recreational, music and other creative arts therapists work in current and coming bureaucratic, healthcare environments. Information critical to assessment, conceptualizing interventions that meet needs identified through assessment, programming that leads to functional abilities in community life outside therapy, measures for evidence-based outcomes that demonstrate interventions are successful, and the conceptualization of these outcomes as functional are central to this workshop.

Learning Objectives:

	Explain how to develop a protocol.
	Discuss how to identify appropriate assessment information and use it to guide individualized program development.
	Explain the need for evidence-based functional outcomes and their relationship to community integration.

Faculty:

	Alicia Clair, PhD
	Carla Carmichael
	Rick Vroman

Schedule:

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Registration 8:00 a.m.
Program 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m

Location:

VAMC Perry Point - Bldg. 314/Theater, Perry Point, MD 21902 (Area Map/Directions)

Pricing:

Registration Fee prior to 10/16/2008 $65 After 10/16/2008 $75
VA Employees prior to 10/16/2008 $5 After 10/16/2008 $8
VA Employee Fee Plus Lunch prior to 10/16/2008 $12 After 10/16/2008 $15

Contact Hours:

ANCC - Nurse	5.5
SW - Social Worker	5.5
NHA - Nursing Home Administrator	5.5
PT - Physical Therapist	0.5
OT - Occupational Therapist	5.5
ACHE - Healthcare Executive	5.5

Lunch:

Included

Enrollment
Limit:

150

Location
Map:

View Area Map

Directions:

From I-95 take exit 93 (Perryville) and head South on Route 222, through the intersection of Route 40. Follow Route 222 South (Aiken Ave.) to its end at Broad St. Turn right on Broad St. which leads directly to the Medical Center. NOTE: Crossing the Susquehanna River Bridge, there is a $5 toll Northbound only, immediately before your exit.

NOTE: You will need to follow the BURGUNDY signs to the parking for the Theatre*. Handicapped parking is available if you follow the signs to the handicapped parking for the theatre.*Once in the parking lot, continue to follow arrows posted on buildings and hallways until you reach the Theater/Gymnasium area.

SPECIAL NOTE: The driving directions below will get you to a point outside of the Perry Point Medical Centers Gate. Please continue on Broad Street and enter the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and then follow the directions listed above!

Driving
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