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    • Certified Occupational Therapy Asst
    • Occupational Therapist
    • Speech Language Pathologist
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Course Description

This interactive course will take the fear out of helping adult patients with severe dysphagia who require tube feeding. Participants will leave this course with a strong foundation, and a better understanding, of the many patient and family considerations involved with tube feeding. The instructor will use lecture, videos, pictures and case studies. Information for clinicians such as SLPs, OTs, Dysphagia Specialists and Nurses is provided to help them support patients and families who may feel overwhelmed facing, or living with, a feeding tube. Course material will include topics such as history, tube basics, feeding methods, tips and techniques, common complications, equipment care, medical considerations, the heart and mind connection during mealtimes, the role of water, the gut and brain connection, diets, traveling with a tube, the role of the dysphagia therapist and treatment considerations. The psychology of tube feeding, impact on the family, and mealtime dynamics will also be discussed. Participants will leave with a new confidence in helping patients, families and team members through the world of tube feeding.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify various feeding methods utilized with tubes.
  • Recall tube and site care, equipment care and medical complications that can arise or that may be related to tube feeds.
  • List various possibilities on ways to decrease tube feeds while increasing oral feeds.
  • Define the role of the gut in relationship to successful oral feeding/comfort.
  • Identify the differences in role of treating different patient populations including end of life treatment decisions.

Jodie Dacy

M.S. CCC-SLP, NDC

Jodie graduated from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL with a Master of Science degree in Communication Disorders. She has been a practicing speech language pathologist since 1995 with extensive experience in the private sector, school settings and clinical experience in hospital settings which include long term care and outpatient rehab. Jodie became a VitalStim® Provider in 2005. Since then she has utilized this modality in the treatment of dysphagia with both her pediatric and adult patients. Jodie is also a licensed NOMAS® practitioner and certified in NDC (NMES for Dysphagia), MDTP (McNeil Dysphagia Therapy Program) and Myofascial Release. She has presented locally and nationally on various topics such as Best Practices, The Benefits of Oral Motor/Feeding Therapy on Articulation/Speech Clarity amongst others. Currently, Jodie serves the Speech Language Pathology profession as a therapist at Val Verde Regional Hospital in TX and as a certified instructor of the VitalStim® Therapy and DINES Specialty Certificate Program for CIAO Seminars.

Financial Disclosure: Jodie receives honoraria from CIAO Seminars for the presentation of this course. She also receives royalties for the purchase of her recorded course(s)
Non-Financial Disclosure: Jodie uses VitalStim Therapy in her practice.

102 Minutes
History, tube basics. feed methods, tips and techniques, The Nissen, equipment care
99 Minutes
Heart and mind connection, water, the gut and health of the gut, first foods versus infant formulas, versus animal milks, blended diets, special diets
118 Minutes
Treatment considerations, education to family, mealtime relationships, mouth/gut connection medical history, safety, limitations, hunger
61 Minutes
Treatment considerations with adults, treating and end of life considerations, legalities to consider with tube placement, educational handouts
6.3 Hours
Total

Delivery VIA:

  • Online - This course is offered in an online, on demand format.

Contact hours pre-approved for:

  • 6.0 Hours
  • CIAO is an ASHA Approved Provider #AAWA (0.6 ASHA CEUs) bubble sheet submission required - Course cannot be completed prior to 11/12/20 for ASHA CEUs
  • This course meets PDU requirements for NBCOT (6 PDUs)
  • 7.0 Hrs. OT/COTAs in FL (CE Broker #20-797358)
  • CIAO is an AOTA Approved Provider #4119 (6 AOTA CEUs)

Introductory Level
0.6 ASHA CEUs


CIAO Automatically reports to CE Broker for Florida Occupational and Physical Therapists and Assistants. Florida SLPs can either use the ASHA CE Participant Form (Bubble Sheet) or self-submit through CE Broker.


CIAO is recognized on the NBCOT Provider Registry (meets PDU requirements for NBCOT)


The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.


Reviews

excellent course! thank you so much! this will greatly change my practice and i wish i had taken this course long ago

- Columbia, MD / Apr 2022

great presenter! Easy to follow slides as well as supplemental information presented verbally. Will be looking into other courses led by Jodie!

- Cleveland Heights, OH / Mar 2022

Even though this material was not in my specific field, I feel I gained an understanding that will help me help my patients.

- Maryville, TN / Jul 2021

The Speaker applied the information to real life experiences which made the information connect, make sense and logical.

- Jackson, MS / Jun 2021

Excellent course.

- Voorhees, NJ / Feb 2021

I enjoyed the history of the tube feeding. It was something I never knew I wanted to know.

- APO, NY / Jan 2021

Great job! Very well done and interesting and engaging!

- Co Spgs, CO / Jan 2021

highly recommended course!

- Dadeville, AL / Nov 2020