How Information Literacy Can Support Occupational Therapy Practice

Name: How Information Literacy Can Support Occupational Therapy Practice
Price: 129.00 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 5 (338 reviews)

Course: #5041Level: Introductory 1 Hour 338 Reviews

There is an abundant amount of information available today regarding choices about health and wellness. Busy occupational therapy practitioners need to be able to find, evaluate, organize, and convey information accurately and efficiently in order to provide evidence-based services and promote health literacy to consumers of occupational therapy services. This course provides practical strategies to implement information literacy skills in practice.

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Learning Outcomes

After this course, participants will be able to list the 7 pillars of information literacy and examples where each would be needed/used in occupational therapy practice.
After this course, participants will be able to recognize the connection between information literacy, evidence-based practice, and health literacy.
After this course, participants will be able to identify several strategies that could be used in occupational therapy practice to be a good consumer of information.

Agenda

0-5 Minutes	Introduction
5-15 Minutes	Concepts of Information Literacy
15-30 Minutes	Identify, Scope & Plan: What do you need to know and where to look?
30-45 Minutes	Gather, Evaluate & Manage: Finding, evaluating, and using information proficiently
45-55 Minutes	Presenting Information & Clinical Example
55-60 Minutes	Summary, Q & A

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NOTE: Full attendance for all courses is mandatory. For self-study courses, this includes reading the full text, listening to the full audio recording, or watching the complete video, as appropriate for the format of the course.

Passing an online exam and completing a course evaluation will be required to earn continuing education credit.

Live Webinars allow presenter and participant interaction. The exam and course evaluation for these courses must be completed within 7 days of the event.

On-demand courses include texts, video and audio recordings of live webinars, and multimedia formats. The exam and course evaluation for on-demand courses must be completed within 30 days of course registration.

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American Occupational Therapy Association

OccupationalTherapy.com is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development, #7659. Course approval ID# 01715. This distance learning - interactive course is offered at 0.10 CEUs/contact hours (Introductory level, Professional Issues Area). The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

CE Broker

OccupationalTherapy.com is an approved provider for CE Broker, provider #50-14558. This course is offered for 1.00 hours. If you are an OT/OTA in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina or Tennessee, CE Broker may be of interest to you.

International Association for Continuing Education and Training

continued, LLC, DBA OccupationalTherapy.com, is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). continued complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, continued is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. continued, LLC, is authorized by IACET to offer 0.10 CEUs for this program.

National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy

OccupationalTherapy.com is a NBCOT® Professional Development Provider. This course is offered for 1.25 NBCOT PDUs (Beginner level, Education and/or Research Area). NBCOT® is a registered trademark of The National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc.