Keeping Medications in Mind: What are the potential risks and benefits?
Alzheimer's disease Workshop, Tonja Woods – March 26, 2013
Goals and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this instructional webinar, the learner will be able to:
o Describe the steps to assessing a patient who may have dementia, and describe
pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and management of the disease.
o List the risk and benefits of medications used to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Organizational Framework:
 Resources used/provided: see PowerPoint slides
 Level of learner: Intermediate
 Competencies targeted: Patient care-that is compassionate, appropriate, and
effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of heath; medical
knowledge about the established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate
sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care; practice-based
learning and improvement that includes investigation and the evaluation of their
own patient care, appraisal and assimilation of scientific evidence, and improvement
in patient care; interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective
information exchange and teaming with patients, families, and other health
professionals; systems based practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an
awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system for health care
and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of
optimal value.
 Description of enduring training materials used:
o Link to video: Keeping Medications in Mind
o Copies of handouts: NONE
o Titles of books used or shared: NONE
o Copies of reminders provided: NONE
o Copies of PowerPoint presentations: power point slides provided
o Copies of notes provided: NONE
A description of the pedagogy driving your training (instructional delivery):
 Intended audience: MDs, NP’s, RNs, Social Work and mental health professionals
 Teaching/Learning Strategy: Face to face, in person training via workshop setting.
o Interactive activities used to integrate learning: Questions during and post
presentation
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o Evaluation Strategies: Following completion of each presentation, the
participants will receive an evaluation form to gather quantitative and
qualitative data. The evaluation form will include quantitative questions
anchored to a Likert scale, regarding satisfaction with the presentation, as
well as retrospective pre and post change in knowledge and intent to change
their medical practice as a result of the program. Participants will be able to
provide qualitative data regarding which areas of practice they intend to
change.
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