LungTalk: Teaching Your Patients to Live with COPD

Qualidigm is pleased to offer Lung Talk: Teaching Your Patients to Live with COPD, an evidence-based educational video series created to help standardize educational materials throughout the continuum of care and to promote patient self-management of COPD.

This video series, comprised of eleven modules, is intended for nurses and other licensed staff who work with patients with COPD. After viewing the series, viewers should understand the prevention of COPD acute exacerbations, the treatment of acute and chronic COPD, and the components of evaluating patients with COPD. Viewers will also learn the key recommendations to teach patients with COPD so that they can stay healthy and stay out of the hospital.

The video series can be viewed on a computer in Microsoft Silverlight,* or use the link on the sidebar to download and burn to a DVD, which can then be viewed conveniently on a DVD player or computer monitor. The time it takes to download the files will vary depending on the your computer’s connection speed. On average, the download time is approximately two hours, forty minutes.

Module	Interactive Video (with closed caption option)	English Video
Introduction
1: Understanding COPD and its impact on readmissions
2: Evaluating patients with COPD
3: Patient self-management recommendations
4: Is Pulmonary Rehab right for your patients?
5: Approaches to use when educating patients
6: Approaches to motivate your patients
7: Discussing end of life and advance care planning with supplemental materials
8: COPD and health reform
9: What is a care transition?
10: A case example: Successful transitions in care for a patient with COPD

*Microsoft Silverlight is a free downloadable program that allows you to view the videos in several different modes and with closed captioning. To get Microsoft Silverlight, click here.

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