ATIHBC Module 6 - A Day in the Life: Preparation and Pacing for Inpatient Care

Course overview

You have arrived. Everything is in place whether it is your first day of work in an inpatient setting or anniversary of your first year on the job. What does that day look like? What kinds of patients will you see, what conditions will you treat? Acupuncture therapy is making impact in filling gaps in care, changing patient satisfaction scores, reducing need for analgesic medication and facilitating recovery as we have seen in the five previous modules. How are the Departments different in terms of acupuncture care? While the inpatient population is more acute, and more acutely ill than one sees an outpatient setting, the impact of treatment is also greater. Here is the secret: the patients may be more complicated but the acupuncture therapies you already know work very well. We discuss treating in acute care; prioritizing treatment based on urgency or severity of symptoms that may likely be at the forefront of complex comorbidities? Got your security badge, your clean lab coat, your lunch, your toolkit? Let's head over the OB Grand rounds for coffee and a bagel and then to patient clinical rounds on orthopedic surgery.