Elizabeth
Yost,
OTD, OTRL
Clinical Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy
University of Michigan Flint
Elizabeth Yost is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, and an occupational therapist with 10 years’ of clinical experience spanning acute, inpatient, outpatient, and skilled nursing rehabilitative care. Dr. Yost obtained her Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018. She has participated in prior interprofessional educational experiences at UM-Flint as a facilitator, and is passionate about active, experiential learning for healthcare students. Her research interests include knowledge translation, interprofessional education, and intergenerational learning.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: In the intensive care unit setting, lack of mobility can cause deconditioning and weakness, common problems for patients that require mechanical ventilation. Early mobility for patients in respiratory failure has been found to be safe and feasible. The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2018 “Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit” describes the importance of early mobility and exercise, however, there may be a gap between what is recommended and what is done in practice. Early mobility…