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| 04.02.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Spina bifida is a complex congenital birth defect. It affects approximately 10-20 per 100,000 live births in the United States. It is a multisystem disorder that affects sensory, motor, autonomic, cognitive...
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| 04.02.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Introduction/Overview Managing spina bifida meningomyelocele (SBM) is more than dealing with a difficult disease state. It is a life-altering condition that affects 70,000 to 100,000 people in the United...
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| 04.02.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Multiple sclerosis (MS) can be a debilitating disease, and along with its physical symptoms it can often be a heavy emotional burden for patients. MS can change the way people feel about themselves and alter...
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| 03.12.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Tom Sawyer knew how foolish it was to work harder than he needed to and he knew how to enlist other people’s help. It might be a good idea to keep Tom in mind when you're burning out on providing care...
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| 03.12.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Patients with spinal cord injuries can experience multiple systemic problems. In general, all normal functioning has changed. Let’s take a look at what exactly changes. Prior to their injury, the...
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| 03.12.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Multiple sclerosis (MS) has a significant social, mental and physical impact on both patients and their caregivers. Almost any neurological symptom can develop with the disease, and often progresses to physical...
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| 03.05.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. The Rosalyn Carter Institute for Human Development states, “There are just four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers; those who are caregivers; those who will be caregivers; and...
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| 03.05.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. The purpose of this article is to familiarize ourselves with contemporary neurogenic bladder (NGB) management while minimizing the overtreatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in this colonized population...
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| 03.05.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. The normal teenage dilemmas are always great: emotional instability due to hormonal changes, dating, peer pressure, body image, and self-esteem. When a teenager experiences a spinal cord injury, the...
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| 02.15.2012 |
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Part 4 of a 4-Part Series. Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. In today’s ever-changing medical environment, it is essential to have a central person helping to coordinate care. A traumatic injury is life-changing and there are many different...
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| 02.15.2012 |
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Part 3 of a 4-Part Series. Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Ensuring that patients will participate in their recovery after a disabling illness or injury can be a difficult task initially. Case managers working with the patient must have a...
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| 02.15.2012 |
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Part 2 of a 4-Part Series. Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. When Bert Burns suffered a life-changing injury in his 20s after being thrown from his car during an accident, no one would have blamed him if he decided life as he knew it was over...
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| 02.15.2012 |
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Part 1 of a 4-Part Series. Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. A spinal cord injury, defined by damage to the spinal cord or to the nerves at the end of the spinal canal, can often result in sudden changes to a person’s health, outlook...
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| 02.15.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Spina bifida is a neural tube birth defect. Children with spina bifida have central nervous system dysfunction that may cause, among other things, bowel and bladder continence problems – this can have a...
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| 02.15.2012 |
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Earn 2.0 CEUs for this e-learning opportunity. Bladder dysfunction affects approximately 60 to 80 percent of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), and this includes urinary incontinence, a condition that can cause considerable distress. As is often the case...
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| 02.14.2012 |
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Urology is a surgical specialty within medicine that deals with diseases of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs. One of the most common urological problems is incontinence, or the loss of bladder control, which affects anywhere...
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