Live Webinar for Therapists. Complete both sessions for 15 Hours (1.5 CEUs)
November 7 and 8, 2025
9:40 am EST • 8:40 am CST • 7:40 am MST • 6:40 am PST (US)
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This comprehensive course prepares practitioners to assess a child’s needs while determining which services and interventions they will need while in the NICU as well as upon discharge. Participants will learn to work with the family to provide a seamless experience. Management of the post NICU medically fragile infant will be stressed.
ERI is partnering with Fairview Rehab to offer this live webinar.
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Infants with Cardiopulmonary Compromise: Bridging the Gap from Hospital to Home – ONLINE
Exclusive offersfor first-time registrants, loyal customers, group rates and bundled courses. Interested in hosting a CEU course? Train your team at a discounted rate while earning credits.
Live Webinar for Therapists. Complete both sessions for 15 Hours (1.5 CEUs) November 7 and 8, 2025 9:40 am EST • 8:40 am CST • 7:40 am MST • 6:40 am PST (US)
ERI is partnering with Fairview Rehab to offer this live webinar.
EARLY BIRD RATE! Register by September 19, 2025 to receive $20 off your registration. Enter coupon code EARLYBIRD20 at checkout to receive the discount. Must be used at time of registration.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This engaging course is designed to provide participants with tools and strategies to prepare the NICU patient and family for discharge and transition home. Class participants will learn to evaluate, identify, and optimize services and care for NICU graduates as well as to enhance home-based and/or outpatient clinical setting skills. Evidence-based medical, developmental, and outcome data will be discussed to inform treatment, best practices, and management of the medically fragile NICU child.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Choose rehabilitative interventions to support the premature infant in the NICU
Determine which evidence-based assessment tool would be most appropriate to evaluate an infant’s motor developmental status
Identify positioning needs within a therapeutic intervention plan with the post NICU infant and their family/caregiver
Select handling techniques to promote postural control in static and dynamic positions
Determine the rationale for the selection of a therapeutic intervention plan of care with a post NICU infant and their family/caregiver
Evaluate the need for developmental follow-up, family intervention, and positioning and handling programming for NICU graduates
Apply an evidence-based recommendation for follow-up care of an infant and family/caregiver after discharge from the NICU
AUDIENCE: This course is designed for therapists and developmental specialists working with the infant and family in the NICU, PICU, EI and home, up to their first year after discharge.
PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS: Participants will need to have a doll and two baby blankets available to practice techniques during the webinar.
Roberta “Bertie” Gatlin, PT, DScPT, PCS, is currently providing services in the early intervention setting specifically assessing the transition of infants and families from the NICU to EI. She completed her career as an Associate Professor and Director of Admission for South College Department of Physical Therapy in July 2023. She graduated from University of Memphis in 1986 with a BS in Special Education and from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Physical Therapy in 1989 with a BS in Physical Therapy and in 2013 with her Doctor of Science with an emphasis in Neurological and Pediatric Physical Therapy. She has been a Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist from 2001 thru 2021.
Her experience draws from over 30 years in the field of pediatric physical therapy. She is an adjunct professor in the Physical Therapy Department at Emory & Henry College, Marion, Virginia. She provides post-professional education for Educational Resources Inc. and Medbridge Education. Bertie provides programming instruction for Brooks Institute of Higher Learning Pediatric Physical Therapy Residency. Bertie’s experience encompasses physical therapy within the NICU, developmental follow-up clinic and outpatient pediatrics, servicing all age levels. She has been a department director for an acute care hospital and an outpatient pediatric rehabilitation center. Her research has focused on the infant with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and the outcome measurements used to identify their developmental needs. Bertie currently holds the Treasure Position for the APTA Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy Executive Board and is Past Chair of the Neonatology Specialty Interest Group.
Financial Disclosure: Roberta Gatlin receives an honorarium from Education Resources, Inc.
Non-Financial Disclosure: Roberta Gatlin is a committee member for the Neonatal Special Interest Group and Finance Committee of APPT. Roberta Gatlin is on the membership Board of the APTA.
TESTIMONIALS
"Bertie is very passionate about the care of neonates, which clearly comes across in her course. She has wonderful knowledge and experience to share. I highly recommend this course especially to therapists working in the NICU." -L. Scott, PT
"I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation as the speaker was not only engaging but very hands on and informative/relevant to the INCU rehabilitative experience." -M. Purser, SLP
"This course provided excellent hands on learning through lab time. The instructor was very available for individual questions. There was lots of practical information discussed; I look forward to using these techniques with my patients". -D. Cook, OT
Continuing Education Hours for disciplines not listed below: 15 contact hours (1.5 CEUs). Intermediate level. License #______________.
Education Resources Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID# 06200. This Distance Learning-Interactive course is offered at 15 contact hours 1.5 CEUs. (Intermediate Level, OT Service Delivery). AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products or clinical procedures. Approved for FL Occupational Therapists for 18 continuing education hours, #20-703685. This course can be used toward your NBCOT renewal requirements for 15 units. This course meets the approval of the TX Board of OT Examiners. ASHA CEUs are awarded by the ASHA CE Registry upon receipt of the CEU Participant Form from the ASHA. Approved CE Provider for up to 1.5 CEU’s. ASHA credits are accepted by the TX Department of License and Renewal. Approved by the FL Physical Therapy Association for 18 CE Hours - approval #CE25-703685. This course has been approved by the MD State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 15 Continuing Education Hours. Approved by the MN Board of Physical Therapy for 15 CE Hours, #13259. Approval #2203-110 by the NJ State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 15 CEC's. Approved sponsor by the State of IL Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy for 18 contact hours. The Illinois Early Intervention Training Program has approved this event for 15 hours of EI credential credit in the area of Intervention. Approved provider by the NY State Board of Physical Therapy for 18 contact hours (1.8 CEUs). Education Resources is an approved agency by the PT Board of CA for 15 contact hours. This activity is provided by the TX Board of PT Examiners accredited provider #2210017TX for 15 CCUs and meets continuing competence requirements for PTs and PTAs licensure renewal in TX. Approved Provider by the NM Board of Physical Therapy for 15 CE Hours. Approved Provider for OK State Board of Medical Licensure & Supervision #BAP202310003. This course meets the criteria for 15 hours that can be applied toward the Neonatal Therapy National Certification. 12 hours of this course qualify towards the discipline-specific hours for the 20-hour requirement for NDTA re-certification. They do NOT qualify towards the 8-hour NDTA Instructor requirement for re-certification.
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