Acute Care, Community And Home Health CEU Courses for OTs

While the manifestation and exhibited characteristics associated with autism spectrum disorder in females often appear different than for males, females with autism are often misdiagnosed and overlooked altogether-- requiring them to navigate a world predicated on social interaction without a proper diagnosis and relevant services. This training will discuss how autism manifests for females and clinical considerations for practitioners.

The different types of pain, the symptoms related to each category, and the challenges of treating chronic pain will be discussed in this course. Participants will increase their understanding of pain categories and learn non-pharmacological options to create an individualized, multimodal pain management plan.

The course aims to inform on the market segments for aging in place, types of design for aging in place, critical areas to assess in the home to facilitate aging in place, and home modifications that can be made to critical areas in the home.

Screening and evaluating clients’ emotional, cognitive, and social performance is an essential skill set for occupational therapy practitioners working with adults across various practice settings. This course provides evidence-based, clinically useful tools and methods for assessing adult clients’ emotional, cognitive, and social abilities to design effective intervention plans, interact therapeutically, and make reasoned referrals.

Join Dr. Spielmann for a Part 2 webinar about neurodiversity affirming practice where we will explore allyship, power differentials, goal setting, critical self-reflection, and advocacy in every space.

Poor posture, such as tech neck, has reached epidemic proportions, which can result in dysfunction and injury. Healthcare professionals have a unique role in educating patients about the hazards of poor posture. This presentation will discuss the current evidence and management strategies for tech neck as it applies to healthcare professionals.

A brief overview of the bowel/bladder system, commonpediatric conditions that affect this system and the role of the occupational therapy practitioner in supporting this area of function in the acute care setting will be discussed. Associated equipment, procedures, daily care routines, and occupational profile considerations will be addressed. This is Day 3 of the Pediatric Acute Care Virtual Conference.

A general overview of the history of OT in mental health and practice indications. More specifically, this course will inform OTPs of common practice settings, the clinical presentation which includes common diagnoses, impairments, and impact on areas of occupation, different assessment tools and evidenced-based treatment interventions, and desired OT functional outcomes.

An overview of infant massage will be provided in this course. The application of infant massage techniques with a special needs population will be discussed. Emphasis will be on using the current evidence to support infant massage techniques during occupational therapy intervention.

The anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding mothers and infants, the essentials of proper positioning, and what to do when there are challenges will be introduced in this course. In addition, this course will explain and highlight the occupational therapy practitioner's role and breastfeeding as an occupation.