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Join us for CARE Week May 16-20th

Clinical Application of Research & Evidence Week at RHI

One outstanding facet of RHI's world-class rehab culture includes conducting clinical research and implementing cutting-edge, evidence-based interventions into the services we provide patients. In doing so, we strive to provide the best care possible to our patients while also helping to advance rehabilitation science through interdisciplinary collaboration. The goals of CARE Week are to showcase these efforts and the value they bring to RHI patients; to stimulate awareness, learning, and collaboration; and to inspire all to be engaged in helping advance CARE-related efforts at RHI.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the inaugural CARE Week and made it such a special event to help showcase the amazing research that happens here at RHI! Below you can find the list of the event awards and the winners of each one.

Embracing Innovation (Research-Oriented)

Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Telemedicine Brain Injury Coping Skills (BICS) Group Intervention to Traditional In-Person BICS 
Devan Parrott, PhD

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Driving Change (Evidence-Implementation)

Task Specific vs. Impairment Based Training on Locomotor Performance in Individuals with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Cross-over Study
Jennifer Lotter, DPT, Christopher Henderson, PT, PhD NCS, Abbey Plawecki,MPT, Molly Holthus, DPT, Emily Lucas, SPT, Marzieh Ardestani PhD, Brian Schmit, PhD, T. George Hornby, PT, PhD

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Reflection Raffle Winners

  • Christian Lauletta
  • Jean Capler

 

Check out the list of keynote speakers below!

Jenni Moore, PT, DHS & George Hornby, PhD

Institute for Knowledge Translation (iKT) and IUSM, PMR

Knowledge Translation: Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes by Translating Evidence into Practice

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Pat Quigley, PhD, APRN, CRRN, FAAN, FAANP, FARN

Nurse Consultant, Nurse Scientist, Former Associate Director and VISN 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry

Population-based Approach to Fall-Injury Prevention: Translating Evidence into Practice

 

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Barbara Maxwell, PhD, DPT, MSc

Associate Dean at Indiana University School of Medicine and Director of the IU Interprofessional Practice & Education Center and Professor of IUSM PMR

The Judicious Combination: Quality Clinical Care through Integration of Evidence, Expertise, and the Patient's Perspective and Values

 

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Quratulain Khan, PhD

Clinical Neuropsychologist, Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana

Evidence-based Cognitive Rehabilitation: Application in the Treatment of Persisting Post-Concussion Symptoms

 

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Help us wrap up an exciting week as we hear from Dan Woloszyn and Dr. Flora Hammond. We will also announce RHI Foundation funded CARE Week Award winners!

 

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Pre-Recorded Presentations 

Enjoy these pre-recorded presentations from our participants, as they cover a variety of interesting topics. Feel free to click each title to view the presentation, or click here for the full playlist!

Standardized Measurement 

Iowa Oral Pressure Instrument (IOPI); EBP to rehabilitate speech and swallow musculature for clinically significant outcomes (EBP)
Teresa Cochran, MACCCSLP Beth Helton, MACCCSLP

Two Assessment Options for Evaluating Negative Attributions and Related Anger in Patients with Brain Injury (EBP)
Darby Dyar, Dawn Neumann, PhD, Jeong Jang, PhD, Flora Hammond, MD

Dashing to Performance: A Method for Improvement
Jo Rust, MSN, RN, CNS, FCNS, CRRN Troy Carter, BSN, RN, CRRN Cynthia Smith, BSN, RN

The Effect of Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation on Functional Outcomes and Discharge Disposition Following
Meghan Willoughby, Dr. Kyle Littell, Dr. Jacob Ramsey-Morrow

Patient Family Education 

Help Me Cry Again: A Post-Stroke Case Study (EBP)
Dawn Neumann PhD, Angela Carbone, MD, Teresa Cochran, MA/CCC-SLP, CBIS, Beth Helton, MA/CCC-SLP, CBIS

The Feasibility Trial of the Facial Affect Recognition Intervention and Empathy Module Through Teletherapy for Individuals with a Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Care-Partners. (EBP, T)
Raven Hill, Dawn Neumann, PhD, and Amber Armstrong

Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Telemedicine Brain Injury Coping Skills (BICS) group intervention to traditional in-person BICS for Brain Injury Patients and Caregivers (EBP, T)
Devan Parrott PhD

Cognition, Neurobehavioral and Contextualized Therapy

Exploring Changes in Social Inferencing and Negative Attributions following an Intervention for Individuals with Brain Injury
James Brent, BS, IUSM MS3, Dawn Neumann PhD, Flora Hammond MD

Intervention for Treating Facial Affect Recognition Deficits after Traumatic Brain Injury: A Practice Standard
Dawn Neumann, PhD

The Effects of Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation on Cognitive Outcomes Following COVID-19 Infection (C)
Emily Seal, Dr. Kyle Littell, Meghan Willoughby, MS-4

Reducing Anger and Aggression after TBI with an Intervention to Change Attributions that are Negative
Dawn Neumann, Flora Hammond, Sam Backhaus, Beth Helton, and Tony Laffoon


Motor/Locomotor Recovery

Implementing High Intensity Gait Training in Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Improves Locomotor and Non- Locomotor Outcomes (EBP)
Chris Henderson, Abbey Plawecki, Jenny Lotter, Molly Scofield, Emily Lucas, Lindsay Shoger, George Hornby

The event is all virtual! We have daily keynote speakers presenting virtually and live Monday-Thursday. They will be recorded, so if you can’t make the live presentation time, you can watch afterwards in our playlist.

CARE Week is an opportunity for RHI colleagues to share their work in research and evidence-based implementation. This is an opportunity to reflect on how this not only aligns with each of our fields, but to understand what our colleagues are doing in healthcare to better speak to and promote our practices.

CARE Week is a FREE event!

Presenters are eligible for one of two awards:

  • Embracing Innovation (Research-Oriented)
  • Driving Change (Evidence-Implementation)

Viewers/attendees are also eligible for one of two Reflection Raffle awards ($250 continuing education certificate/award). Reflection Raffle selections will be based upon the submitted thoughtful, reflective responses provided. The greater number of thoughtful, reflective responses will increase chances of winning. All CARE Week awards are sponsored by the RHI Foundation in support of continuing education.

There will be 29 pre-recorded presentations from your friends and colleagues. Presentations will range from 5-15 minutes. These will be added to the site May 9th and archived for your viewing any time after CARE Week.

Day of Reflection will occur on May 20th as a celebration of CARE Week to promote and empower reflective practice. Reflective practice guides on-going learning, improves motivation and the quality of care we provide. This day serves as an opportunity to discuss our reflections of the presentations viewed, why they were important to each of us and identify what our next steps will be, individually and as a team. Be sure to visit the Main Conference Room from 11:00am – 2:00pm to join the celebration!