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Forward2022 Wisconsin Brain Injury Online - Post Injury Focus
This online course is based on the 2022 Wisconsin Brain Injury Conference, hosted by the Brain Injury Alliance of Wisconsin, SOAR Fox Cities, and the UW–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership. Testimonies from the conference:
"The conference helped me to bring in new ways of working with families while we are caring for their loved one and insight the patients are feeling. It has helped me to look at creating new programs for our program for the patients. With this conference it has helped me to gain insight into brain injury as a whole."
"All of the topics discussed this year were wide ranging and informative. Working in the employment sector, learning more about other supports someone with a TBI can benefit from helps to give the whole scope of how best to support someone with a TBI in recovery and healing."
PRACTICE GAP AND NEEDS
Millions of Americans experience a brain injury each year. Research continually generates new insights and treatment options, creating a practice gap among healthcare professionals and a need for caregivers, family members and survivors.
ELEMENTS OF COMPETENCE
This educational activity is designed to change learner competence and focuses on the following competency areas:
- The American Board of Medical Specialties: Medical Knowledge, Practice-based Learning Improvement, Interpersonal and Communication Skills and Systems-based Practice.
- The National Academy of Medicine: Provide Patient-Centered Care and Employ Evidence-based Practice.
- Nursing and Interprofessional: Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice, Interprofessional Communication and Teams and Teamwork.
- UW ICEP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Engage in Self-reflection.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This online course is intended for physicians, advance practice nurses, nurses, physician assistants, psychologists, social workers, researchers, brain injury survivors, caregivers, family members, and others with interest in traumatic brain injury.
GLOBAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course, professionals as members of the healthcare team, brain injury survivors, caregivers, family members, and others with interest in traumatic brain injury will be able to:
- Describe the lifelong challenges that affect a person with a brain injury.
- Explain treatment options available to people affected by brain injury, how to access them, and make the best use of them.
- Apply best practices for brain injury treatment to their clinical practice.
- Discuss the roles and responsibilities of interprofessional healthcare team members who care for brain injury survivors.
SESSION LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Lessons from a TBI Poetry Group
- Identify the value of support groups for creating community and sense of self
- Describe project-based interventions for fostering sense of community and nurturing sense of identity
- Discuss the elements of stakeholder engaged research
Personal Experience After TBI
- Describe impact of TBI on the life of a survivor
- Explain the impact of TBI on the life of a family member
- Identify therapies/treatments unique to brain injury rehabilitation
Ambiguous Loss After Brain Injury
- Describe ambiguous loss and why it’s unique to brain injury
- Explain how ambiguous loss affects survivors of brain injury
- Describe the Stages of Grief
- Discuss the 6 Guidelines of living with ambiguous loss and how to apply them
Funding for the TBI Support Program of SOAR Fox Cities is provided by a grant from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region supported by the U.S. Venture Fund for Basic Needs, the J.J. Keller Foundation and other community partners.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP), the Brain Injury Alliance of Wisconsin, and SOAR Fox Cities gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Neuroscience Group, Learning Rx, Audrey Nelson and Reality Unlimited LLC, and the Brain Injury Alliance of Wisconsin Board.
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Personal Experience After TBI
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Ambiguous Loss After Brain Injury
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 | Jerry Hoepner, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow Dr. Jerry Hoepner is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. He began teaching for UWEC CSD in 2003. He teaches courses in anatomy and physiology, undergraduate research, acquired cognitive disorders, dysphagia, and counseling. His research addresses healthcare perceptions, video self-modeling interventions for persons with acquired language or cognitive disorders, counseling methods and training, undergraduate research, non-course based learning, and instructional pedagogies. He is a founding editor of Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders (TLCSD) and editorial board member for Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders (CACD). He is an Aphasia Access affiliate and interviewer for the Aphasia Access Conversations Podcast series. He is a co-founder of the UWEC CSD SoTL Lab (scholarship of teaching and learning research). He continues to have a regular role in clinical contexts and supervision. He is a co-founder of the Chippewa Valley Aphasia Camp, co-founder of the Mayo Brain Injury Group, and founder of the Blugold Brain Injury Group. He also co-facilitates a Thursday Poetry Group for people with brain injuries and aphasia. Outside of work, Jerry is an avid outdoors person and enjoys traveling/spending time with his family. |
| Audrey Nelson, MS In 1981 Audrey experienced a brain Injury in a car accident during her Freshman year of college; she was 18. In 1983, she was a co-founder and facilitator of a brain injury support group in Eau Claire that met for over 30 years. Audrey earned a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) in 1987 and subsequently, a Graduate degree in Vocational Rehabilitation in 1994. Since 1985, she has had several different roles on the board of directors of the Brain Injury Alliance of Wisconsin. She also currently serves on the Mayo Clinic Brain Injury Advisory Board. Audrey began Reality Unlimited, LLC in 1995, providing residential care for individuals with brain injury. She recently sold this company and is looking forward to the next chapter in her work in brain injury advocacy. One of her most exciting projects was started in 2020, a brain injury & poetry support group that recently published a book of poetry. She is the mother of 3 adult children and recently, a proud grandmother who loves to spend time with her family. |
| Craig and Amy Jordan Craig Jordan is retired, happy, and enjoying life in New London, Wisconsin. He is also a survivor of a brain injury that occurred in 1985 while on duty as a ski patroller. Following his injury he worked for several years gaining back areas of functioning that had been affected, such as motor skills, speech, executive skills, memory, and social interaction. Even today, he continues to work on therapeutic activities to maintain skills in the areas of memory, language, and problem-solving. Unable to return to his previous employment in the area of accounting, Craig entered a graduate program in rehabilitation counseling at UW-Stout and received his degree in 1996. For next 21 years he supported individuals with brain injuries through his roles as a case manager, group home staff, day program staff, independent consulting and coaching, and serving as both a board member and Community Advocacy Specialist for the Brain Injury Association of Wisconsin. He remains active in the brain injury support group in Appleton and the Brain Injury Advocacy Program, under the umbrella of SOAR Fox Cities (an organization serving individuals with disabilities). Outside of his advocacy work, Craig enjoys word games, reading, golfing, and anything to do with aviation. Craig has been married to Amy since 1992. |
 | Courtney Sand, MS, LBA, BCBA, CBIST Courtney Sand, MS, LBA, BCBA, CBIST, is a Licensed and Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer. Courtney is currently employed as a Neuro Resource Facilitator with the Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa. Courtney has over 20 years of experience in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis and mental health and disability in both children and adults across a variety of settings, including autism programs, school districts, a community-based neurobehavioral rehabilitation service provider, and an outpatient mental health clinic where she helped establish an Autism Spectrum Disorder Program. Courtney has been working in the field of brain injury for the last 7 years. Courtney enjoys teaching, and has presented at the national and state level. She is especially interested in and passionate about the study of and increasing the awareness around ambiguous loss, a specific type of grief experienced by those whose lives have been touched by brain injury. Courtney is enthusiastic about playing a collaborative part in the process of behavior change, celebrating the seemingly small, but noteworthy steps, toward the achievement of one’s goals. |
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Karl Curtis, BA, Director* | Sasha St. John, Brain Injury Survivor |
Julie Biesterveld, BA, CBIS, Traumatic Brain Injury Support Program Coordinator * | Benjamin Siebert, MD, FAAPMR Neuroscience Group |
Jan Heinitz, PhD | Traci Snedden, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing |
| Kalli Reinheimer, MSW, CSW, CBIS, VP of Programs, Easterseals Southeast Wisconsin easterseals Southeast Wisconsin |
POLICY ON DISCLOSURE
It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) to identify, mitigate and disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education (CE). In addition, speakers, presenters and authors must disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation.
For this accredited continuing education activity all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated and detailed disclosures are listed below.
*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on, patients.
The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical services directly to patients to be ineligible companies.
Name | Role | Financial Relationship Disclosures | Discussion of Unlabeled/ Unapproved uses of drugs/devices in presentation? |
Nina Berge, BA | UW–Madison School of Nursing, Subcommittee | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Julie Biesterveld, BA, CBIS | Co-Chair & Host | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
| Danielle Ciccone-Coutre, PsyD, ABPP | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Karl Curtis, BA | Co-Chair, Host & Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Sue Gaard, MSN, RN | UW–Madison School of Nursing, Subcommittee | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Jan Heinitz, PhD | Planning Committee Member | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Diane Hernandez, MS | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Jerry Hoepner, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Amy Jordan | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Craig Jordan | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Grace Leonard, EdM | UW–Madison School of Nursing, Subcommittee | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Lisa Monopoli | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Tracy Mrochek, MPA, RN | UW–Madison School of Nursing, Subcommittee | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Audrey Nelson, MS | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Valentine Oluchi, MS | Planning Committee Member | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Kathryn Paulson | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships to disclose | No |
Kalli Reinheimer, MSW, CSW, CBIS | Speaker & Planning Committee Member | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Peggy Rynearson, BA | UW–Madison School of Nursing, Subcommittee (former) | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Courtney Sand, MS, LBA, BCBA, CBIST | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships to disclose | No |
Benjamin Siebert, MD, MD, FAAPMR | Speaker & Planning Committee Member | No relevant financial relationships to disclose | No |
Traci Snedden, PhD, RN | Planning Committee Member | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Sasha St. John | Planning Committee Member | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
Michelle Wild, MS | Speaker | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. | No |
The University of Wisconsin provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title IX requirements. The University of Wisconsin fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accommodations, please contact info@icep.wisc.edu.
Accreditation Statement
 | In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, The Brain Injury Alliance of Wisconsin, and SOAR Fox Cities. The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP 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. |
Credit Designation Statements
American Medical Association (AMA)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this Internet Enduring Material for a maximum of 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this Internet Enduring Material for a maximum of 2.75 ANCC contact hours.
ASWB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) – Social Work Credit
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Wisconsin – Madison ICEP 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 Wisconsin–Madison ICEP maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 2.75 Internet Enduring Material continuing education credits.
American Psychological Association (APA)
 | Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. |
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this Internet Enduring Material for .275 continuing education units (CEUs) or 2.75 hours.
Available Credit
- 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.50 ANCC Contact Hours
- 2.50 APA CE Credits
- 2.50 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
- 2.50 Approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACCESSIBILITY
The University of Wisconsin provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title IX requirements. The University of Wisconsin fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accommodations, please notify us at help@icep.wisc.edu
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