Webinar Information

3-Part Webinar 

Date: April 6, 13 & 20, 2021

Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM

Register Online:   https://bit.ly/2Ns92Iv  

We can all agree that 2020 was a challenging year. The global pandemic caused panic, fear, and uncertainty. Life as we knew it was changing daily. No matter your role in healthcare you were impacted by COVID-19. We invite you to join us in learning how resiliency has strengthened us to move forward.  

Guest Presenter: 

Ebe Boetcher, RRT

Registered Respiratory Therapist

Licensed Massage Therapist

Adjunct Faculty for Clinical Instruction

Ebe Boetcher will be leading both Session 1 & 2

The cost is $35 which includes the 3-part webinar series, & annual membership with IHEA & IACTE.

Current members - $20

CE hours are available for an additional $15. 

                                                                                                                                      Start Time    Session

                                                                                                        Part 1:              2:00   PM        60   min.

                                                                                                        Part 2:              2:00   PM        60   min.

                                                                                                        Part 3:              2:00   PM        60   min.

HELPFUL TIP: If you are teaching at the time of these webinars, we invite you to join us and make the learning session part of your class, or wrap-up of a clinical day! 

• When registering please enter your current email, the nursing contact hour certificate will be sent to you via email at course completion.
• If you want Nursing Contact Hours, you will pay an additional $15 upon registration. You will be asked to enter your license number upon registration check out.
• Full attendance at all sessions is required to earn the contact hours. No partial attendance awarded. It is the licensee’s responsibility to determine if the continuing education programs they attend meet the requirements of their professional licensure board. 
• 3 Nursing Contact Hours, Provided by IBON Provider #22 DMACC 
• This series will be done on ZOOM, and a link will be sent to you prior to the event 

Session 1 – April 6, 2021

Resilience,   Life After the Wristband

The session will walk through what it is like to go from being the caregiver to being the patient. What it is like to have a brain injury. It will include perspectives on the path back to working in healthcare again, even when it was said it would never happen.   Insights into how being the patient has changed personal deliver of care at the bedside will be discussed. Ideas will be shared that have been utilized with the healthcare team and students currently working with in the acute care setting.

Objectives:

• Differentiate between the caregiver and patient role in healthcare
• Summarize perspectives gained in providing care from experiences as a patient
• Discuss concepts to implement when providing care in the acute setting

Session 2 - April 13, 2021

Flying Blind   While Building the Plane:  Frontline Healthcare Workers Perspective

The session will highlight what it is like to be a Respiratory Therapist on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. How often the bar was moved in the beginning will be discussed as well as the changes the healthcare team has made to get to where it is today. Dealing with loss and the overwhelming amount of extremely ill and rapidly changing patients will also be examined. Opportunities that COVID-19 has provided and how I have learned to move faster while going slower will be presented.

Objectives:

• Discuss the role of various health care team members on the   frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Analyze the ongoing changes while providing care during the pandemic
• Evaluate key elements of care in the new pandemic health care  arena

Session 3 – April 20, 2021

A Panel Discussion: When the COVID Test was Positive 

This panel discussion will consist of 3 Iowan’s who’ve been impacted, in various ways, by a positive COVID test. Learn about a wife who lost her husband. Learn about the struggles for a family who were losing their father.  And learn about the struggles for our 3rd   panelist to recover and return to work. This session will certainly demonstrate an incredible amount of resilience for a patient, a family, and colleagues.  

Objectives:

• Discuss the impacts of COVID-19 personally and professionally.
• Explain the sign/symptoms, testing process/procedures, time frame, treatments, hospitalization as experienced by COVID-19.
• Discuss the feelings of being quarantined and the precautions that were taken to prevent the spread of infection.
• Describe the guidelines that were followed during your quarantined and afterward
• Describe coping the aftereffects of COVID-19 diagnosis.