The Clinical Health Coach® Training Online Program
Individuals with chronic conditions drive 80% of the total cost of healthcare today. Better health behaviors, more patient accountability and higher levels of self-care are proven to reduce progression of those conditions, ER visits and hospitalizations. Herein lies the opportunity for health coaching.
Program Overview
The Clinical Health Coach® training online is designed for healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations that seek to improve the health outcomes of their patients by actively engaging them in self-management support and providing true patient-centered care. The learning features include:
- Emphasis in patient engagement and activation strategies through a health coaching approach.
- Exploration of a wide variety of health coaching skills that can be learned and effectively used by anyone on the healthcare team that results in a patient-centric environment.
- Clinical assessments, tools and documents that support the guided care process and patient selected goals for behavior change, especially for those with chronic conditions.
- Population health strategies to identify, stratify, select interventions, track and measure outcomes for an entire panel of patients.
- Effective healthcare communications to improve health literacy.
The design and opportunity features include:
- Convenience.
- Self-paced, can review materials as often as needed.
- Reduced time away from the work environment.
- Coaching performance orientation.
- Live Skill-Building Zoom sessions.
- Scalable to entire healthcare teams.
Target Audience
The target audience includes Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Exercise Physiologists, Dieticians, Respiratory Care Practitioners, Diabetes Educators, Certified Medical Assistants, Care Coordinators, Case Managers, Pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals who work in medical settings that support patients with chronic conditions. Appropriate settings may include primary care and specialty care clinics, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs, case management services, “Chronic Illness Management” departments, Heart Failure programs, Diabetes Education programs, Home Health/Visiting Nurse Service agencies, Pharmacies, Registered Dietitian consultants, medical fitness professionals, and health coach consultants.
The Online Training Experience
The Clinical Health Coach® training online program is a flexible six to twelve week experience engaging participants in an online learning platform that is both practical and easy to follow.
Professionals often choose Clinical Health Coach® Training Online for its convenience and opportunity to learn at their own pace. Materials may be reviewed as often as necessary for up to three months, and participants are invited to join the live Skill-Building Zoom sessions for feedback to deepen their understanding of health coaching techniques. Our online format offers scalability to healthcare systems where training may be desired for a large number of diverse healthcare professionals.
Clinical Health Coach® training online allows healthcare professionals to learn valuable patient-centered health coaching without sacrificing hours away from the clinical setting.
The Learning Features Of the 26 Hour Online Program Include:
- Emphasis on clinical patient engagement and activation strategies through a health coaching approach.
- Exploration of health coaching skills that can be learned and effectively used by anyone on the healthcare team.
- Clinical assessments, tools and resources to support best practice care and patient centered goal setting.
- Population health strategies to engage your entire panel of patients.
- Effective healthcare communications to improve health literacy.
How Will Clinical Health Coaching Make A Difference In Your Organization?
Here is what we know. Doing, teaching and telling your patients what to do is not enough. The future of healthcare requires more. More patient engagement and accountability. More self-care and more team based care.
Whether your organization is an accountable care organization, a PCMH, or an innovative demonstration project, the shift from volume to value is apparent. As healthcare organizations redesign the way they define and identify the populations they serve, the need for new approaches is imminent.
Clinical Health Coaching has increased patient engagement and satisfaction as well as improved clinical outcomes for our graduates in many innovative healthcare organizations across the country.
Organization Benefits
- Retooling your workforce for proactive, patient-centered chronic care management
- Building your staff’s skills to inspire patient engagement and accountability
- Limiting cost and time away from work through convenient, self-paced learning
- Preparing key staff, such as care coordinators, care managers, or health coaches, to transform the conversation and the care processes in support of PCMH and team based care
- Perfecting performance oriented competencies in health coaching, communication, care processes and leadership
- Marketing to the public, the high value of utilizing trained health coaching staff as an integral part of your organization’s healthcare team
Individual Benefits
- Enhancing your relational and clinical effectiveness in serving patients with chronic conditions
- Building a resume that includes performance validated Clinical Health Coaching skills
- Earning a Certificate of Competency in Clinical Health Coaching
- Connecting with a social network to acquire new, innovative professional ideas
- Limiting cost and time away from work through convenient, self-paced learning
Hardware/System Requirements
Hardware:
The learning portal for training is web based and accessible from a variety of devices that can access the web.
System:
– Mac or PC operating system
– Stable internet connection (broadband recommended)
– Updated version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari web browser
– Adobe Acrobat Reader
You may begin this learning adventure by registering as an individual by selecting the “Register an Individual” link below and paying by a personal or organizational credit card.
If you are interested in registering a group, please contact us at [email protected].