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SSWLHC - SSWLHC 53rd Annual Meeting & Conference
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Teaching ability of presenter:Bridget Baker
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Teaching ability of presenter: Lori McCullough
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Teaching ability of presenter: Pamela Moss-Samuelson
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Teaching ability of presenter: Brooke Goodwin
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Teaching ability of presenter: Lauren Obidi
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Teaching ability of presenter: Robin Stone
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Teaching ability of presenter: Debby Brookstein
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Teaching ability of presenter: Heather Brungardt
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Teaching ability of presenter: Michelle Camerer
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Teaching ability of presenter: Jodi Pecora
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Objective 1: Understand a range of innovative social work practice concepts, techniques, and skills that can be applied in their organizations
By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.
By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.
By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.
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Having completed the activity, please rate your ability to meet each of the following objectives:

Describe the elements of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and Post-Intensive Care Syndrome-Family (PICS-F)

Describe the strategies that Social Workers and other members of the health care team can employ to try to prevent PICS/PICS-F in the hospital

 

Discuss how social Workers can recognize, treat, and facilitate appropriate referrals for individuals and families with PICS after discharge from the hospital

Objective 2: Develop leadership skills for all levels of practitioners across the health care continuum in the areas of program development, managing change, conflict management, administration and executive leadership
By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.
By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.
By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.
The instructor was responsive to participants
Objective 3: Enhance their understanding of emerging healthcare trends and their impact on policy and practice
By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.
By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.
By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.
Appreciate, demonstrate, and communicate the unique role of social work leaders and leadership in health care
Explore their assumptions about leadership and understand their personal leadership styles and competencies, including strengths and weaknesses
Develop core leadership competencies and leverage them to achieve specific goals within their institutions
Better understand the diagnosis, prevalence and health impact of ADHD
Summarize AAP ADHD treatment guidelines and understand the importance of meeting those guidelines in the pediatric primary care setting
Describe the coaching model used by advanced generalist social workers to enhance ADHD treatment in the pediatric primary care setting
Participants will be able to define and describe the concept of the parent/guardian Hungry Ghost in the pediatric hospital setting.
Participants will be able to identify and define the role of Ombudsman and how they collaborate with their social work colleagues to manage Hungry Ghosts.
Participants will learn strategies and techniques to manage Hungry Ghosts in their healthcare environments.
1. Participants will be able to understand how the use of technology impacts social work practice and is essential to demonstrating value and outcomes.
2. Participants will be able to review specific examples of technology tools and platforms including a custom component with logic to highlight psychosocial information, high level departmental data dashboard and a productivity report.
3. Participants will be able to analyze and discuss the challenges and barriers social work leaders encounter as they develop, create and collaborate with others in their institutions to bring these innovations to fruition.
Appreciate how Epic can be customized to gather data
Learn the steps to develop reports providing insightful and actionable information
Appreciate how the information provided can be used to showcase social work services, inform decisions, support regulatory compliance, validate effectiveness, and illustrate savings
1. Identify the three competency dimensions and their areas of intersection.
2. Explore the supervisor’s multiple roles of teacher/mentor/consultant/gatekeeper dependent on the developmental needs of each social worker supervisee.
3. Utilize activities in supervision to stimulate learning in hospice and palliative care social workers
Learn how embedding services into housing improves outcome
Learn more about the Recuperative Care Program and how it improves health and housing outcomes while reducing return visits to emergency rooms
Learn how CCC designs programs to address social determinants of health and how the impact health and well-being
The instructor used the technology effectively
Summarize the history and current state of the healthcare system as a perpetrator of racism
Analyze the challenges and opportunities in beginning this work and discuss ideas for how to overcome the challenges and harness the opportunities
Review educational tools to develop an anti-racist practice
?Participants will learn about the multidisciplinary psychosomatic medicine consultation team collaboration and leadership in driving effective mental health treatment and better outcomes in the emergency room.
?Participants will learn about the dynamic role of the Mental Health Complex Care Manager (CCM) and types of treatment interventions utilized in providing care to psychiatric patients in the Emergency Room (ER)
?Participants will learn about the impact of the introduction of this role within psychosomatic consultation services with respect to reducing LOS in the Emergency Room, preventing inappropriate readmissions and improving patients’ experiences and discharges outcomes
The instructor used the technology effectively
Participants will be able to define and describe the concept of the parent/guardian Hungry Ghost in the pediatric hospital setting.
Participants will be able to identify and define the role of Ombudsman and how they collaborate with their social work colleagues to manage Hungry Ghosts.
Participants will learn strategies and techniques to manage Hungry Ghosts in their healthcare environments.
The instructor used the technology effectively
To explore the role of social work leadership in innovative payment Medicaid reform models in states
To identify opportunities for social work to increase leadership and involvement in population health and health equity efforts
To increase understanding of how social workers can be engaged more effectively in Medicaid reform and other population health efforts
Understand causes of over-utilization of institutional care
Identify key evidence-based and sustainable solutions and new delivery models
Be able to summarize recognized patient outcomes and cost benefit of the new solutions
Participants will be able to define the mentorship group model
Participants will be able to develop a plan and structure for their own groups
Participant will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of their model by participation and future membership in their chapter.
Understand the need and function of a Complex Discharge and Transitions Team (CDTT)
Discuss metrics and outcomes that help justify starting a CDTT program and keep its funding
Describe key components and challenges of a successful CDTT through a case example
Participants will be able to discuss the importance of social determinants on health outcomes and hospital resource utilization.
Participants will be able to identify key partnerships in their own communities for collaborative population health efforts.
Participants will be able to strategize regarding implementing social determinants screening tools and resulting intervention workflows.
Describe why screening for SDH in patients is important
Discuss the unique contributions that the social work profession can make to SDH screenings in healthcare settings
Identify key roles that social workers can play key in healthcare SDH initiatives
1. Understand the extent of the “boarder” phenomenon across the country and how one major hospital institution is addressing the issue
2. Describe psychiatric interventions that can be initiated on the medical floor while a patient is “boarding”
3. Explore the greater systemic issues as it relates to the broken mental health system and discuss ways that social work can be integral to addressing this crisis, including advocacy, brief treatment, research, and increase in community resources
1. Increase provider knowledge and comfort using inclusive terms while working with patients and families.
2. Discuss the importance of including inclusive, comprehensive sexual education into daily practice and identify practical challenges within the LGBTQ+ population.
3. Participants will be able to implement comprehensive, inclusive sexual education in their respective clinics.
• Participants will gain knowledge about developing a community partnership to foster practice skills across the levels of practice.
• Participants will learn how to engage MSW level working students in community activities that will allow them to explore practice areas that might not be their current primary interest area
• Participants will gain knowledge of how to reach out and connect their agency to a university to increase student engagement in community outreach and increase student interest in geriatric health care social work.
Illustrate the challenges patients and families face without sufficient vetting of home care agencies
Describe the steps to help determine quality and value of home care agencies for patients and families
Identify new practices for healthcare professionals when referring patients to home care agencies
Describe the role of members of social work management in coordinating and implementing disaster ride-outs efforts in a hospital setting
Identify the roles and responsibilities of social work practitioners in hospital disaster relief efforts
List opportunities to streamline for enhancing patient care at hospitals during major natural disasters
Identify the ambulatory specialty clinic settings who are high utilizers of social work services based on referral volume
Identify variance in acuity and differentiate clinically appropriate versus inappropriate referrals using comprehensive EPIC chart review and case preparation
Leverage non-clinical staff (i.e. Support Liaisons, Administrative Assistant) to offload non-clinical tasks, increasing social work capacity to engage in a full range of appropriate clinical interventions
Participants will be able to summarize the background and development of the MedSoc workload productivity tool.
Participants will be able to understand the benefits of the MedSoc tool in staffing to workload and FTE allocation efforts.
Participants will be able to identify the limitations of the tool.
Review the process used in developing an Emergency Department Consistent Care Program that supports patients in utilizing appropriate levels of care, subsequently reducing the number of frequent visits to the Emergency Department.
Discuss the implications of an Emergency Department Consistent Care Program for frequents users of the ED and ED staff.
Analyze quantitative and qualitative outcomes of an Emergency Department Consistent Care Program conducted at a Midwest Regional Emergency Department.
Participants will be able to: 1. Identify the sources of mental health inequities for Deaf, ASL users, and describe the importance of having culturally and linguistically appropriate health care to improve behavioral health outcomes for Deaf people.
Participants will be able to: 2. Discuss how this model can be expanded to provide behavioral health care for Deaf people across the US, within states.
Participants will be able to: 3. Describe challenges that continue to exist for equal access to all levels of healthcare for Deaf people.
Attendees will learn about multiple medical illnesses that can manifest through psychological symptoms such as anxiety, speech irregularity, and hallucinations.
Attendees will learn how to improve the physiologic/biological section of a full biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment.
Attendees will learn culturally appropriate assessment questions that can be embedded into any biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment leading medical teams and patients to improved outcomes.
Participants will be able to list and access required standards from oversight organizations in healthcare.
Participants will be able to understand how to interpret/translate the intent of healthcare standards.
Participants will be able to understand how to apply standards in program development and improvement.
Summarize the history and current state of the healthcare system as a perpetrator of racism
Analyze the challenges and opportunities in beginning this work and discuss ideas for how to overcome the challenges and harness the opportunities
Review educational tools to develop an anti-racist practice
Identify ways to optimize ED length of stay for behavioral health patients through Social Work intervention.
Understand considerations and interventions to keep patients safe while boarding awaiting psychiatric inpatient placement.
Learn strategies for maximizing relationships with area psychiatric facilities to expedite patient placement.
Discuss the need for improved documentation practices and outline the value of using templates in documentation
Explore barriers when implementing a new documentation system
Discuss the ways in which our new system has allowed us to collect data that mitigates risk
To understand the unique needs of pediatric patients with diabetes and other chronic illnesses
To describe the set-up and high-light features of a pediatric multi-displinary team in a regional medical care system
To share the benefits of a multi-displinary treatment approach to pediatric diabetes care
Review the core social work competencies in health care social work.
Report progress on the development of a health care social work certification program.
Discuss the components of a successful model of program development involving social workers from various healthcare settings.
Identify effects of financial strain of life in people with chronic illness
Present a theoretical framework for understanding financial stress as possible obstacle to deeper coping and meaning-making
Summarize qualitative findings from pilot study and highlight clinical, research, and policy implications
Participants will learn how to develop a structure that will institutionalize equity into practice.
Participants will learn about potential health care benefits to implementing a health equity lens into the social work practice in pediatrics.
Participants will be able to understand how the use of data is important to uncovering policies and procedures in practice that perpetuates health inequities.
Better understand patient experiences through this study and presentation.
Promote patient and family engagement and empowerment.
Improve patient outcomes with active intervention in care coordination between providers, healthcare systems and community agencies.
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2. Participants will be able to review specific examples of technology tools and platforms including a custom component with logic to highlight psychosocial information, high level departmental data dashboard and a productivity report.
3. Participants will be able to analyze and discuss the challenges and barriers social work leaders encounter as they develop, create and collaborate with others in their institutions to bring these innovations to fruition.
Increase knowledge around suicide risk, assessment and intervention.
Improve awareness of our own influences and assumptions in evaluating for suicide risk.
Explore how to design a program to better train professionals to assess for suicide risk.
Identify key challenges in designing initiatives that address social work practice in varying domains;
Describe the unique challenges of creating quality initiatives for a department of over 200 social workers;
More fully understand the implications of ensuring quality practice oversight initiatives while partnering with current.
Understand the evolution of health care from volume to value and its impact on opportunities for social work integration
Describe key operational challenges and strategies for integrating social work into health system care management
Discuss key sustainability challenges for social work in health system care management, including the use of chronic care management and transitional care management codes
Understand the need and function of a Complex Discharge and Transitions Team (CDTT)
Discuss metrics and outcomes that help justify starting a CDTT program and keep its funding
Describe key components and challenges of a successful CDTT through a case example
Provide insight on translating an existing social work model of psychosocial support to a demographically different patient population
Understand commonalities and differences in supporting patients with pulmonary illness across state lines and within different organizational systems
Identify continued avenues for collaboration and innovative social work interventions
Participants will examine the unique role of social workers working with chronic and terminally ill patients in a healthcare setting.
Participants will explore the factors that contribute to burn out and compassion fatigue and how they correlate to decreased job satisfaction and low morale for medical social workers.
Participants will learn how to use self-advocacy to create positive change in the workplace, including the implementation of wellness programs and initiatives that prioritize the emotional and mental health of social workers in this setting.
Participants will understand how the American healthcare system compares to several other single payer or universal healthcare systems
Participants will explore some of the myths about single payer systems, their cost and their outcomes
Participants is gain ideas about creating change in the current "for profit" medical system in America
Identify strategies to keep social work a vital resource in healthcare organizations
Understand the importance of demonstrating the benefits of social work in value based care.
Discuss opportunities for maintaining the best practices of the social work profession while adapting to changes in healthcare.
Participants will be able to identify at least 3 diagnostic groups who are high risk for acute behavioral health readmission.
Participants will be able to describe to at least 2 interventions that can be used to reduce readmissions.
Participants will be able to see how process changes trialed with medical diagnoses can be adapted for use with mental illness diagnoses.
You will learn about how to demonstrate to others the importance of having SW on the multidisciplinary team.
You will learn the components of interdisciplinary collaboration.
You will develop a beginning template to develop your own description of the SW role on multidisciplinary team you work on.
Demonstrating leadership through innovative program design with an interdisciplinary team
Understand the importance of utilizing a patient-reported distress screening tool in a high-volume medicine unit
Summarize distress screening tools, methods, procedures, and limitations
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1. Identify four critical elements for providing effective integrated behavioral health care within the pediatric medical home;
2. Describe four ways to measure system-level outcomes of behavioral health integration ;
After this presentation participants will be able to:
1. Identify four critical elements for providing effective integrated behavioral health care within the pediatric medical home;
2. Describe four ways to measure system-level outcomes of behavioral health integration ;
Presenter will detail the process of primary palliative care program development so that participants will be able to implement a similar program in their setting.
Participants will learn how to initiate advanced care planning and goals of care discussions throughout the chronic illness trajectory.
Discuss how this model can be modified and adapted to meet the particular needs of other care settings, such as long term care, case management, primary care, and home health.
Participants will better understand the role of social work in the health insurance field.
Participants will analyze the various roles that social workers should be filling in the health care field using a classical social work systems framework.
Participants will learn about various tools and applications which help impact healthcare service delivery at all system levels.
Identify acute inpatient hospitalization criteria
Review need for consistent social work staffing to reduce length of stay and deal with recidivism
Discuss options for funding social work positions
Describe process and methods to establishing effective partnerships between hospitals and post-acute care facilities to achieve the triple aim of improving quality, reducing cost, and improving population health beyond the hospital stay.
Outline the role social work leadership and quality improvement can play in facilitating partnership development and collaboration between post-acute care providers and hospital service line leaders.
Discuss how to evolve post-acute care partnerships to develop robust quality improvement collaborations between hospitals and post-acute care facilities.
Identify 3 ways to roll with resistance when seeking change.
Identify 2 ways to engage in self care and self awareness when engaging in systems change.
Be able to explain how application of Change Theory can lead to achieving real results.
Identify 3 benefits of utilizing Motivational Interviewing in social work practice and healthcare leadership.
Apply the guiding approach to leadership activities.
Demonstrate the spirit of Motivational Interviewing in social work leadership.
Participants will be able to identify how the use of an EMR Flow sheet as a data collection tool can aid leadership in healthcare on the macro, mezzo and micro levels corresponding with benefits to patients, social work providers, and the organization.
Participants will be able to discuss lessons learned in building, maintaining, and expanding a data management tool such as an EMR flow sheet.
Participants will be able to explore how a data collection tool such as an EMR Flow sheet can be adapted to the needs of your organization.
Understand the neurobiology of chronic pain & importance of biopsychosocial approach
Be familiar with evidence-based treatment for chronic pain
Increase assessment and treatment skills to address pain problems
1. Identify opportunities in one's own community where social work's contributions to integrated care can be developed;
2. Leverage partnerships which can mobilize resources to address community needs in primary care;
3. Design protocols which support social work's financial viability in primary care settings..
Adequacy of physical facilities
Adequacy of physical facilities
Adequacy of physical facilities
Adequacy of physical facilities
Met my expectations
Met my expectations
Met my expectations
Met my expectations
Overall evaluation of session
overall evaluation of session
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Additional Comments:
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Please rate the following:
The program was relevant to my work.
Content matched stated objectives.
Usefulness of handouts/AV.
Quality of facilities and facility accommodations.
How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?
If you rated any of the above questions with 'fair,' 'poor,' 'disagree,' or 'strongly disagree' please explain in detail (e.g. session title, speaker name, situtation):
The teaching methods used were appropriate to the objectives
The teaching methods used were appropriate to the objectives
The teaching methods used were appropriate to the objectives
Please tell us about any sessions you found particularly good or bad
Please tell us about any objectives you feel we accomplished well or poorly 
Please tell us about any presenters you found particularly good or bad
Please answer the following:
Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?
Was the educational content scientifically sound?
If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?
Was the mode of education effective to learning?
If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.
Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?
If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please detail the situation below (e.g. session title, speaker name):
Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room (other areas do not matter) while you attended this educational activity?
If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please explain in detail (e.g. who, when, where):
How much did you learn as a result of this education program?
What specifically did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or patient/client challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?
What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?

Additional comments:

Please rate the following items for the SSWLHC 2018 Annual Meeting & Conference
Hotel Accommodations ()
Location (Portland, Oregon)
Quality of hotel food
Overall quality of meeting facilities
Overall helpfulness of conference staff/volunteers
Quality and diversity of program content
Program Length (Wednesday - Saturday)
Time allocation of Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes)
Are there topics you would like to see presented at future Society meetings?
How did you register for the 2018 Annual Conference?
With credit card using the online member web portal
With check and hard copy registration form
With the hard copy five-person registration form
Other (please specify)
For those who answered "with a credit card using the online member portal," how would you rate the "ease of use" when registering for the conference through the online member web portal?
If you could make any changes to the registration process for next year's conference, what would they be?
Membership application/renewal (member's only question): How would you rate the ease of use when joining/renewing SSWLHC through the online member web portal?
If this is the first time you are attending the SSWLHC Annual Conference, how did you find out about the organization or conference?
Do you have any additional comments you would like to share with the Society's Board of Directors and/or Planning Committee?
Would you be interested in joining an SSWLHC Committee?
If you had an opportunity to interact with a member of the Association's Headquarters Team prior to or during the event please indicate your level of satisfaction with that encounter:
If you have a specific example of exceptional customer service or would like to recognize a member of the Association's Headquarters Team for a job well done, please include it here:
If you have a general suggestion for the Association's Headquarters Team that would improve the overall member experience with regards to the Annual Meeting or otherwise, please share it with us:
Please provide your information as you submitted on your Attendance Monitoring Form for the CE certificate:
Would you like to participate in the mentorship program?
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