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Thomas BowCHAMP Program Liaison
Center for Home Care Policy & Research
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
5 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10001
212-609-5767
Tuition Discount
If you work for a member agency of one of the following state home care associations you get a discounted tuition of $35 per participant for the Helping Patients Adhere course:
Continuing Professional Education Notices
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Alabama State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
It has been assigned approval code: 5-142
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York Home Care is a Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 15204.
Helping Patients Adhere
How do you work with patients who don't follow through with their side of the care plan? Handling patients who don't adhere is one of the toughest challenges many home care clinicians face. This course covers key reasons for non-adherence behavior and teaches evidence-based strategies that can be applied to help patients adhere.
This course can be completed anywhere you have internet access. It contains clinical case studies, downloadable/reusable tools, and exercises to help your patients increase adherence.
At the end of the course you will be able to:
- Identify the dimensions of non-adherence to long-term therapies
- Define the stages of intentional behavior change and assess patient readiness to undertake change
- Explain the importance of Health Literacy in helping patients adhere
- Effectively use the Teach-Back method to check patient understanding of new information
Increased adherence results in:
- Less work-related stress
- Better patient outcomes
- Increased satisfaction with your job
About the course
Only $49 per participant. Only $35 per participant if your agency is a member of one of the state home care associations listed at right.
Continuing Education Hours: 3.6 Continuing education contact (CE) hours are awarded to registered nurses upon completion.
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