Holistic Pathology & Ethics Package
25 Hour CE Course 
Description
This package contains 3 courses. Take each course when it fits your needs.You may take 1 test now and save the other 2 tests for your next renewal period if you wish. You'll receive 1 certificate for each test. Note: Extra ethics hours may be used to meet NCBTMB General CE Hour requirements.
Description: Deepen your understanding of pathology from a body/mind approach. Learn key concepts about how to recognize and confidently respond to soft tissue and movement therapy indications, precautions and contraindications for over 225 health conditions. Learn how to recognize and respond to issues of professionalism; the therapeutic process; prevention of and interaction with communicable diseases, including HIV; and ethical issues of illness care. The textbook provides an excellent reference after the course is done.
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| Materials and Tests Shipped to You | Contents: Text and workbooks with multiple-choice tests shipped to you. | $295 | |
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| Text Materials Shipped and Tests Online | Contents: Text shipped to you. Online multiple-choice tests. | $295 | |
Content Outline
| Chapter 1: Health Professionalism: Being a Professional; Theory, Science and Pseudoscience; Paradigms of Health and Illness; Aging; Disability (Standard 1: Professionalism) | 1 hour | ||
| Chapter 2: The Therapeutic Process: Assessment; Making Referrals to Other Health Professionals; Therapeutic Action; Evaluating therapeutic Outcomes; Ethical Considerations; Sample Case Presentations (Standard I: Professionalism) | 1 hour | ||
| Chapter 3: Stress and the Body/Mind: Mental and Emotional Health; Mental and Emotional Illness; Assessment; Therapeutic Action; Research Findings; Case Presentations | 2.5 hours | ||
| Chapter 4: Immune and Lymphatic Systems: Disorders; Assessment; Standard Precautions; Working with People Who Have Cancer; Working with People Who Have HIV; Working with People Who Have Edema; Research Findings; Case Presentations | 2.5 hours | ||
| Chapter 5: Cardiopulmonary System: Disorders; Assessment; Therapeutic Action; Indications and Contraindications; Research Findings; Case Presentations | 2.5 hours | ||
| Chapter 6: Nervous System: Disorders; Assessment; Therapeutic Action; Indications and Contraindications; Research Findings; Case Presentations | 2.5 hours | ||
| Chapter 7: Musculoskeletal System: Disorders; Assessment; Therapeutic Action; Research Findings; Case Presentations |
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1.5 hours | ||
| Chapter 9: Digestive and Endocrine Systems: Disorders; Assessment; Therapeutic Action; Research Findings; Case Presentations | 1 hour | ||
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1 hour | ||
| Chapter 11: Philosophical Aspects and Practical Aspects of Working with Persons who are Seriously Ill or Injured including Contraindications; Smith’s Bodywork Modification Model; Working in Specific Healthcare Environments; Ethical Issues of Illness Care; Mentors and Peer Support; Comforting People Who Are Dying; Research Findings; Case Presentations | 2 hours | ||
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1 hour | ||
| Open-book Test and Course Evaluation | 2.5 hours |
Learning Objectives
- List the eight most common causes of cellular injuries in response to stress.
- List and describe five most common psychological defense mechanisms.
- Define: adhesion, antibodies, autoimmune, benign, communicable disease, contamination, edema, erythema, fibrosis, infection, inflammation, malignant, metastasis and psychoneuroimmunology.
- List the most important parts of the CDC's Standard Precautions for massage therapists and bodyworkers.
- Define and give examples of immune-deficient conditions and hyperimmunity conditions.
- Define: lymphedema, heart failure, stroke, COPD, hypertension, heart attack, asthma, ischemia, PVD and embolus.
- Recognize the appropriate actions in response to signs of heart attack.
- Identify five contraindications relating to the cardiopulmonary system and five cardiopulmonary signs and/or symptoms that are reasons to refer the client to a primary care provider.
- Identify the differences between acute, chronic, intractable, phantom, localized, radiating, referred and projected pain.
- List the two main causes of pathology in the nervous system.
- Recognize the primary caution when working with a person who is taking narcotic pain medication.
- Identify at least five contraindications for therapeutic actions in relation to the musculoskeletal system.
- Identify at least five musculoskeletal signs and/or symptoms that are reasons to refer the client to a primary care provider.
- Identify commonly used medications for musculoskeletal conditions, and their precautions related to massage and bodywork.
- Recognize the ABCDs of malignant melanoma.
- Identify three integumentary signs or symptoms that are reasons to refer the client to a primary care provider for evaluation.
- Identify and compare the differences between hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
- List the primary danger from diabetic crisis and recognize what to do for a client who shows those signs.
- Define supine hypotensive syndrome and identify how to prevent it during bodywork.
- Identify three signs and/or symptoms from the genitourinary system that are reasons to refer the client to a physician.
- Identify how to prepare for massage therapy or bodywork in the hospital and home care environments, including the items to bring with you.
- Identify the most important contraindications for working with seriously ill people.
- Define accountability, ethics, ethical dilemma, ethical dissonance, liability, consent, referral, transference, counter transference, confidentiality, and dual relationship.
- Identify at least three common ethical considerations that relate to massage or bodywork practice.
- Identify the body fluids that are most likely to transfer communicable diseases and list the most important parts of the CDC’s Standard Precautions for massage therapists and bodyworkers.
- Identify the common ethical dilemmas that occur when working with people in illness care environments and the strategies that can be used to reduce or cope with them.
Sample Text
“When healthy tissue becomes active, it releases a number of metabolites which dilate the local arterioles. This dilation allows more nourishment to come into the tissue and facilitates the removal of wastes. However, the smooth muscles inside the arterioles' walls are also affected by the sympathetic nerves. These nerves cause contraction of the smooth muscles inside the arterioles' walls. The more sympathetic impulses that occur, the more intense the constriction becomes. Conversely, the fewer the sympathetic impulses, the more relaxed and dilated the arterioles become. (See Illustration 45)”
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a. fibromyalgia
b. muscular Dystrophy
c. myasthenia Gravis
d. osteomyelitis
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This is an excellent way of learning without STRESS.A. Kubinek, LMT, NCTMB
It was so easy to order from the website. The materials arrived quickly. This home study course was convenient, economical, and a great way to fulfill the NCBTMB ethics requirement!Sandra Mainardi, CMT, Lincoln Park, NJ