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Overview
Overview
This module provides information on how to assess and manage patients at risk for aspiration to prevent the dangerous complications of aspiration.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
Swallowing is a complex process that requires the coordinated action of muscles in the tongue, pharynx, and esophagus. Many conditions and interventions can disrupt this process and increase the risk for aspiration. Dangerous complications of aspiration that can be prevented include aspiration pneumonitis and aspiration pneumonia. Due to the prevalence of the vulnerable population at risk for aspiration, it is important for all healthcare professionals to be knowledgeable about aspiration and recognize risk factors to protect their patients. The goal of this educational program is to provide nurses, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, and physicians in healthcare settings with information about how to identify patients at risk for aspiration and how to protect patients from aspirating.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe the three stages of normal swallowing.
  • Identify the three stages of normal swallowing.
  • Describe the three stages of normal swallowing
  • Identify seven risk factors for aspiration
  • List six strategies healthcare professionals can use to reduce the risk of aspiration
  • Identify at least seven risk factors for aspiration.
  • List at least six strategies healthcare professionals can use to reduce the risk of aspiration.

Course Termination Date: 06/03/23

Content Expiration Date: 05/31/23

Course Originally Released On: 08/01/20
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Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 8/1/2020

REL-ACU-0-APDCVP

Course Author

Maria M. Baptiste

MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C, CCRN-CMC

Dawn Demangone-Yoon

MD

Maureen Habel

MA, RN

Laura Bell

BSN, RN, CCRN

Holly Kutscher

MSN, RN

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC 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.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.