Unlocking Motivational Interviewing:

How Eliciting Behavior Change Can Enhance Health and Cut Costs

Motivational interviewing is a robust behavior-change technique that is rapidly emerging across many health care disciplines—for extremely good reason. Studies have shown the patient-centered technique to enhance patient outcomes, from improving health status, promoting physical activity, improving nutritional habits, and encouraging medication adherence to helping manage chronic conditions, including mental illness, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes (Butterworth, JMCP).

Join the publisher of Case In Point, Case In Point Weekly, and the Case Management Resource Guide for a 90-minute online training session on how this exciting new approach can help your department improve patient care, decrease costs and ultimately limit the effects of chronic disease—whether you are in case management, disease management, nursing, primary care, pharmacy or a related field. 

Continuing education credits have been applied for nurses, case managers and disability management specialists.

About the Webinar

The Case Management Society of America says: “Motivational interviewing is a proven, patient centered counseling method for addressing patient ambivalence and resistance to change. Motivational interviewing has been shown to improve treatment adherence and outcomes, promote health behavior change, improve patient satisfaction with care and increase retention rates in complex case management.”

Eliciting patient behavior change is a paramount challenge for today’s professional involved in medical management. Yet its importance could not come at a more crucial time. Chronic diseases are sweeping the nation, resulting in poor outcomes and an overutilization of healthcare resources, which in turn drives up costs and taxes the health care system as a whole.

Nearly one out of two adults is living with a chronic illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Such chronic conditions include high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes, all of which are growing concerns in light of the rising obesity rates. Addressing these challenges, MI is expanding among diverse settings, including case management, disease management, nursing, primary care, pharmacy and others areas of medical management.

The Case In Point Webinar series convenes an expert faculty with a wide breadth of experience in motivational interviewing. The faculty includes Dr. Jan Kavookjian, co-founder of the Auburn University Motivational Interviewing Training Institute, an innovative training model designed specifically for health care professionals. Join us on August 18 to explore the going trends in what is perhaps the most rapidly expanding behavior-change paradigm in healthcare.

Our Webinar Will Answer These Questions:

• What are the core elements of motivational interviewing?
• How can motivational interviewing help me impact patient change?
• What is the relationship between motivational interviewing and chronic disease?
• What results will motivational interviewing deliver?
• How can I begin to implement motivational interviewing in my organization or department?
• How can I overcome patient ambivalence?
• How can I or my staff become trained in MI?
• What can I do to optimize my MI practice, once implemented?
• What challenges may I face when using MI, and how can I overcome them?
• How does MI improve the bottom line?

Speakers:

	Michelle A. Dart, MSN, PNP, CDE Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Associates, Syracuse, N.Y. Author, Motivational Interviewing in Nursing Practice: Empowering the Patient
	Jan Kavookjian, MBA, PhD Associate Professor, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University Co-Founder, Auburn University Motivational Interviewing Training Institute
	Dana Oliver, MS, RRT, AE-C  Education Coordinator, Nurtur Health
	Moderator: Anne Llewellyn RN-BC, MS, BHSA, CCM, CRRN Editor in Chief, Case Management Products Dorland Health, a Division of Access Intelligence

Who Should Attend

• Administrators
• Case Managers
• Clinical Nurses
• Disease Managers
• Disability Management Specialists
• Discharge Planners
• Directors
• Health Care Educators
• Hospitalists
• Medical Directors
• Medical Providers
• Office Nurses
• Occupational Health Nurses
• Medical Management Supervisors
• Physicians (in all specialties)
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Registered Nurses
• Social Workers
• Vocational Specialists
• Wellness Professionals
• Workers’ Compensation Professionals