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ForwardDisability Etiquette and Awareness: Custom Education for Discharge Planners
There is a lack of knowledge and awareness of barriers related to the ADA and a need to expand ADA education within the medical field. Increasing the knowledge among healthcare professionals is crucial for improvement of the health status of people with disabilities.
These activities will improve feelings of empowerment for staff members and patients. It will also help to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes.
Target Audience
Nurse
Social Worker
Discharge Planning Associates
Discharge Planning Coordinators
Learning Objectives
- Learner with be able to recognize the definition of “disability”
- Learner will be able to employ their duties as a nurse, as defined by law
- Learner will be able to categorize and use methods for providing effective communication with patients with disabilities that affect communication
- Learner will know what questions one can and cannot ask about service animals
- Learner will be able to identify and locate common (and recommended) accommodation approaches and tools (for specific disabilities & for disabilities in general).
- Learner will be able to find the apps on the Effective Communication iPads that would be useful for patients with vision disabilities; & they will be able to locate and obtain the Effective Communication Toolkit; Blind/ Low Vision Toolkit; and/ or Assistive Listening Toolkit(s), as needed, and understand their applications.
- Learner will be able to implement effective and appropriate patient care based on tips for caring for people in different disability categories.
There is a lack of knowledge and awareness of barriers related to the ADA and a need to expand ADA education within the medical field. Increasing the knowledge among healthcare professionals is crucial for improvement of the health status of people with disabilities.
These activities will improve feelings of empowerment for staff members and patients. It will also help to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes.
Kaitlin A. Kerr, MSN, RN
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.
Social Work (ASWB)
This program is offered for 1.0 hours of social work continuing education.
Nursing (ANCC)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hours.
Other Healthcare Professionals:
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.00 ASWB
- 1.00 Attendance