*FREE* Retain Session 3: The RETAIN Kentucky Return to Work and Stay at Work Model: Strategies for Helping Workers with Disabilities Maintain Quality Employment.
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Overview
Clinical Topics
Primary CareRETAIN Kentucky is part of the US Department of Labor’s Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network Initiative to support workers who are at risk of leaving the workforce. RETAIN KY works with employees, employers, and healthcare providers to address issues related to successful return-to-work and stay-at-work. RETAIN Kentucky includes: a statewide research study examining effects of an early, intensive vocational intervention, capacity building through training, and multi-systems change effort.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, the participant will be able to:
- Identify 3 best practices in return to work/stay at work for patients with an acquired disability
- Describe 2 system’s approaches in the stay at work and return to work process after an injury or illness including relevant stakeholders
- Employ 2 strategies to engage healthcare professionals in return –to –work efforts
Speakers
Director of Research
Phillip Rumrill, Ph.D., CRC, is a Professor in the Department of Early Childhood, Special Education, and Counselor Education at the University of Kentucky (UK) in Lexington. He also serves as Director of Research in the UK Human Development Institute, which is Kentucky’s University Center on Disability. Dr. Rumrill is well known as one of the leading disability and employment researchers in the United States. He has authored or co-authored more than 450 professional publications including 16 commercially published books (e.g., Foundations of the Vocational Rehabilitation Process, Emerging Disabilities and Rehabilitation Counseling, Case management and Rehabilitation Counseling, Research in Rehabilitation Counseling) Dr. Rumrill has extensive experience administering funded research projects. He has had leadership roles on 44 grants with total budgets of more than $53 million. Dr. Rumrill has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including distinguished career awards from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association and the National Council on Rehabilitation Education. Dr. Rumrill has lived experience with a significant disability (blindness), is a former state Vocational Rehabilitation consumer, and was diagnosed with Long-COVID syndrome in 2021.
Director Outreach and Engagement, RETAIN KY
Shirley Kron is the Director of Outreach and Engagement at the University of Kentucky Human Development Institute and serves as the healthcare lead for RETAIN KY developing and expanding healthcare partnerships across the Commonwealth. Prior to her role at HDI, Shirley served as the Regional Director for Occupational and Corporate Health at CHI responsible for the KentuckyOne Workplace Care program for over 20 years and certified as an Occupational health nurse (COHN-S). She managed the Occupational Physician services (OPS) practice which provided occupational medicine services for over 800 employers and their employees in the Louisville market. She was also responsible for management of onsite physicians at the Kentucky Ford Plant (KTP), Louisville Assembly Plant (LAP) and GE Haier. She has over 40 years of experience in nursing, including occupational, rehabilitation and care management.
CE Information
This activity offers 1.0 CE credit to attendees.
Accredited by Kentucky Board of Nursing.
KBN Approval. This offering for contact hours is provided by the Kentucky Nurses Association (KNA). Kentucky Nurses Association (KNA) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Kentucky Board of Nursing (KBN). KBN Provider Number: 1-0001. KBN CE Providership Approval through December 31, 2025. KBN approval of an individual continuing nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program/offering content. 50 minutes = 1.0 KBN Contact Hour.
Disclosures
Originally offered May 8, 2024. Please be aware any interactive elements of the presentation were only applicable during the live viewing.
Activity Content
Registration to this activity includes access to the following supporting materials.
- Retain Session 3 PPT (Size: 749 KB)
Duration: about 1 hour | Quality: HD
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