Treating Infants and Families In the NICU and Beyond - Live Webinar - Two Sessions

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Education Resources will be applying for CEUs and will disperse course certificates.
ERI is an approved provider for AOTA and ASHA and will submit for MN Board of PT CEUs

Fairview Employees: Cancellation Policy:  Cancellation Fee will apply.

Requirement: Participants will need to have a doll and two baby blankets available to practice techniques during the webinar.

Course Description: 

This engaging course is designed to provide participants with tools and strategies to prepare the NICU patient and family for discharge and transition home. Class participants will learn to evaluate, identify, and optimize services and care for NICU graduates as well as to enhance home-based and/or outpatient clinical setting skills. Evidence-based medical, developmental, and outcome data will be discussed to inform treatment, best practices, and management of the medically fragile NICU child.

Course Objectives:

1. Choose rehabilitative interventions to support the premature infant in the NICU
2. Determine which evidence-based assessment tool would be most appropriate to evaluate an infant’s motor developmental status
3. Identify positioning needs within a therapeutic intervention plan with the post NICU infant and their family/caregiver
4. Select handling techniques to promote postural control in static and dynamic positions
5. Determine the rationale for the selection of a therapeutic intervention plan of care with a post NICU infant and their family/caregiver
6. Evaluate the need for developmental follow-up, family intervention, and positioning and handling programming for NICU graduates
7. Apply an evidence-based recommendation for follow-up care of an infant and family/caregiver after discharge from the NICU

Instructor:

Roberta Gatlin

Roberta “Bertie” Gatlin, PT, DSPT. Is currently providing services in the early intervention setting specifically assessing the transition of infants and families from the NICU to EI. She completed her career as an Associate Professor and Director of Admission for South College Department of Physical Therapy in July 2023. She graduated from University of Memphis in 1986 with a BS in Special Education and from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Physical Therapy in 1989 with a BS in Physical Therapy and in 2013 with her Doctor of Science with an emphasis in Neurological and Pediatric Physical Therapy. She has been a Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist from 2001 thru 2021.

Her experience draws from over 30 years in the field of pediatric physical therapy. She is an adjunct professor in the Physical Therapy Department at Emory & Henry College, Marion, Virginia. She provides post-professional education for Educational Resources Inc. and Medbridge Education. Bertie provides programming instruction for Brooks Institute of Higher Learning Pediatric Physical Therapy Residency. Bertie’s experience encompasses physical therapy within the NICU, developmental follow-up clinic and outpatient pediatrics, servicing all age levels. She has been a department director for an acute care hospital and an outpatient pediatric rehabilitation center. Her research has focused on the infant with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and the outcome measurements used to identify their developmental needs. Bertie currently holds the Treasure Position for the APTA Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy Executive Board and is Past Chair of the Neonatology Specialty Interest Group.

DISCLOSURE:
Roberta Gatlin receives an honorarium from Education Resources, Inc.
Her non-financial disclosures are: committee member for the Neonatal Special Interest Group and Finance Committee of APPT.

Agenda: Coming Soon

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