A one-day course for Occupational Therapists.

For those occupational therapists working in more acute settings (with a triage, risk assessment and discharge focus)

This workshop will be suitable for clinicians working across any health and community care settings including emergency departments, aged care units, tertiary and secondary hospitals, mental health settings and in the home. 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.

• To understand the concepts of attention, implicit and explicit memory, executive functioning, visual processing – recognising these in function and how they present in occupational performance
• Explore the cognitive profiles or familiar presentations noted in common diagnoses e.g. diabetes, cardiac failure, dementia
• To recognise and analyse underlying cognitive deficits from different screening tools and assessments
• 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.