A one day course for Occupational Therapists.
This workshop will be suitable for clinicians working across any healthcare setting including emergency departments, aged care units, acute hospitals and mental health settings. After the workshop you will have a good understanding of cognition, which can be applied across different diagnoses. It will provide you with the ability to identify difficulties in cognition within function and where to focus your screening, assessment and intervention.
WORKSHOP PART 1: COGNITION, SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT
- Review of the common cognitive deficits – their presentation in occupational performance
- To understand the concepts of attention, implicit and explicit memory, executive function, and visual cognition – recognising these in function and trends within different cognitive profiles
- To recognise and analyse underlying cognitive deficits from a functional assessment.
WORKSHOP PART 2: INTERVENTIONS FOR COGNITION
- To decide on an intervention approach and intervention strategies (restorative, compensatory or education) based on the identified cognitive deficits and diagnosis
- To be able to align and use your knowledge of a patient’s cognitive deficits and/or your observations in function to determine risks for discharge and/or potential function in their own home and/or capacity for rehabilitation.
Throughout the workshops, you will be provided with examples and strategies on how to confidently respond to various MDT questions about cognitive impairment within the context of occupational performance.
Please contact Sue at ua.moc.tceridoruen@eus if you would like to book this course.
(This course is not focussed on strokes and head injury rehabilitation. If you are interested in a course specifically related to cognition/ perception for your patients with stroke or head injuries in the rehabilitation setting please contact Sue regarding upcoming course dates)
