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Instructor Bios  Instructor Name  Email  Currently Teaches   Freda Kelley   kelleyf@fms-regional.com Living With Dementia, Home Care 101, An Overview of Employee Infection Control, HIPAA Compliance in Hospice, Bereavement Services in Hospice, Performance Improvement Processes in Hospice, Home Care Regulatory Guidelines   Beckie Hinze   hinzeb@fms-regional.com Fall Prevention for the Home Health Patient   Char Lotzgesell   lotzgesellc@fms-regional.com Understanding Advance Directives in Health Care   Valerie Cornett   cornettv@fms-regional.com Bioterrorism: Readiness and Response   Diane Hitt   hittd@fms-regional.com Protecting Yourself from Occupational Exposures, A Guide to Advance Directives in Home Health, Agency Compliance for the New Employee, Documentation in Home Care, Employee Health Issues, Understanding HIPAA in Home Care, Regulatory Guidelines in Home Care, DELETED COURSE, Understanding OASIS and PPS, OASIS Assessment and Documentation, Safety Management for the New Employee, The Basics of OASIS Start of Care, Licensure Standards in Home Health, Texas Insurance Verification & Licensure Standards, Understanding Personnel/Human Rersources   Terry Sweet   sweett@fms-regional.com Important Issues with Medicare Prescription Reform, Is it Insomnia?   Nanette Minton   mintonn@fms-regional.com Advance Directives in Hospice, Hospice Compliance for the New Employee, Accurate Documentation in Hospice Care, The New Employee's Guide to Hospice Regulations, Hospice Levels of Care, Hospice Regulatory Guidelines     Instructor Bios:   Freda Kelley   Freda Kelley, RN, CHCE, HCS-D, has worked in home care since 1985. Her most recent role is as Administrative Director of a new agency in Amarillo, TX. She continues as Regional Director of Operations for Foundation Management Services. In this role, she participated in the development of an orientation module system for new home care employees. Ms. Kelley is currently a student at West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX working toward her B.S.N. Ms. Kelley has many years experience in nursing, but the past ten years has the personal experience of caring for her mother who has dementia. In this role as daughter, caregiver and nurse, Freda has experienced multiple issues and wants to give more understanding to not only to other patients, but to the families and the medical team.     Beckie Hinze   Beckie Hinze, MBA, BSN,RN, CHCE has been the Nurse Planner on the Foundation Management Services, Inc. Continuing Education Committee since July 2000. She has her Master’s Degree in Business and Baccalaureate in Nursing. She shares in the responsibility for the actual planning/needs assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of the provider’s continuing nursing education activities and is directly involved in all phases of co-providership situations. She is the Vice President of Operations for Foundation Management Services, Inc. and has been in nursing for over 20 years. Beckie’s responsibilities in healthcare have been progressive form clinical nursing and direct patient care to executive management.     Char Lotzgesell   Char has worked in home health care since 1990 as staff/field nurse, quality assurance nurse, rural health coordinator, assistant agency director, and branch agency director for the last 6 years. Recently Char has become a Regional Director of Operations for FMS. Prior to 1990, Char worked in Ecuador, South America as an RN. Working in a Third World Country gave Char the opportunity to assist anyone with health problems including but not limited to: TB, burns, diabetes, and GI problems related to parasites and malnutrition. Char has presented many seminars for women related to basic health principles, nutrition and pregnancy. Additionally, Char is Spanish Bi-lingual. She has been the representative for agencies as a translator and patient educator.     Valerie Cornett   Valerie Cornett is the Provider Unit Director for the Foundation Management Services, Inc. Continuing Education Committee. She is also the Director Education Services for FMS. Valerie has assisted the Continuing Education Committee and developed the provider renewal applications for TNA for 8 years (January 2006 will be the fifth renewal). Valerie has assisted in the operation requirements that must be implemented by the Provider Unit throughout the period of approval. Valerie will maintain ANCC Commission on Accreditation education design criteria as provided by TNA to plan activities, maintain responsibility for determination of objectives and content, selection of presenter/content specialist, awarding of contact hours, record keeping and evaluations. Many of these responsibilities are interwoven with her qualifications as Director of Education Services. Because of Valerie’s experience in these areas, she possesses the administrative skills, education principles, and fiscal management necessary to fulfill her responsibility as Provider Unit Director. Valerie is always aware of the educational needs of nurses because of her involvement with the assessment and surveys administered in the healthcare field. Valerie has begun to speak to small groups on new topics useful to nurses. By using the skills and knowledge of TNA criteria, she has the ability to assist in the development of many educational programs.     Diane Hitt   Diane Hitt, HCS-D, LVN, CHCE, has been working with FMS for 6 years. She graduated in 1974 from an LVN program. She currently teaches JCAHO Education and training for Covenant agencies, and has been doing so for ten years. Diane also is involved in starting up hospice and home health agencies, conducting mock surveys, as well as teaching and educating nurses regarding OSHA, home health, and hospice.     Terry Sweet   Terry Sweet is the Senior Infusion Consultant and speaker for Foundation Management Services, Inc. Terry has over 25 years hospital and home infusion experience and is Board Certified in Nutritional Support to assess individualized nutritional needs for enteral and TPN patients. She has developed several pharmacy clinical care plans and has overseen multiple pharmacy technician programs. Terry provides education to audiences statewide on current pharmacy and home infusion topics. Terry is constantly aware of prescription drug costs which continue to be the fastest rising healthcare cost in the U. S. Seniors are most affected by these increases, as they are more likely to be taking numerous prescriptions and to have no access to prescription benefits in their insurance coverage. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 is a topic that nurses must be aware of in order to improve the care of seniors and properly assist them in making decisions regarding participation in this new program.     Nanette Minton   Nanette Minton, RN, CHCE, CHPN, has been in home care for 10 years, with extensive experience in both the home care & hospice fields. She has served as both an agency director and as an executive director for a hospice agency for 3 years. Nanette has great communication skills and practical clinical knowledge.

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