We would love you hear your thoughts about being an OT.
Enter our competition, by sending us a few paragraphs on ONE of the following topics:
- Tell us about what inspired you to choose Occupational Therapy as a career and how it has been important to you…
- Tell us about a patient clinical experience that was transforming for you professionally or personally (please no real names of course)….
- Tell us about how you mentored another OT, or were mentored, and what you learned form the experience
We will share the winning story on our blog and on our social media pages.
A winner will be randomly chosen and announced in May
Winner receives a certificate for a free 2 Day live course: $435 value. Not to be used in combination with other discounts or course credits. Non-Transferable. Must be applied at time of registration, not for conferences previously registered for.
Education Resources offers many relevant CEU courses for , Occupational Therapists and assistants.
Join us to learn creative, effective, evidence-based strategies.
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE TO FIND UPCOMING RELEVANT COURSES IN YOUR AREA
NEW Faculty Member, NEW Course: "Promotion of Recovery Post -Stroke"
Promotion of Recovery Post-Stroke: Evidence Based Therapy in Current Healthcare Environments.
In this course, you will learn/review the current research and thinking of neuroplasticity and motor learning as they relate to optimizing recovery in patients post-stroke. The ultimate end goal is that you will integrate current findings into your everyday practice of neurorehabilitation. A key focus will be integrating the evidence in these areas into current clinical practice in current healthcare environments across the continuum of care. We will examine a broad overview of treatment approaches and participants will apply this information to case studies as a group. Evidence-based examination and treatment approaches will be discussed in the context of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. The course will promote application through the use of case studies.
[caption id="attachment_3208" align="alignleft" width="150"]
Maureen Whitford, PT , PhD[/caption]
We are thrilled to welcome Maureen Whitford to our faculty. She is an Assistant Professor in the Physical Therapy Department at Cleveland State University, where she teaches pathology and treatment techniques for neurologically impaired patients and also conducts research exploring recovery post-stroke. Maureen received her BS in Physical Therapy from The Ohio State University, her MHS from the University of Indianapolis Krannert School of Physical Therapy, her MS in Biokinesiology from the University of Southern California, and her PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Minnesota. She has presented locally and nationally on recovery of patients post-stroke. Dr. Whitford has broad clinical experience treating patients post-stroke in a variety of settings for over 23 years. She currently practices prn in the acute rehab unit at Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Her courses emphasize theoretical underpinnings of motor learning and neuroplasticity as they relate to current treatment interventions and integration into practice.
Upcoming Courses in 2016:
June 17-18, 2016 – Wallingford, CT
August 20-21, 2016 – North Richland Hills, TX
For more detailed information, to download a brochure, or to register, please click here to visit the course page on our website.
Announcing NEW Professional Partnership for NICU Education
The National Association of Neonatal Therapists (NANT) located in Cincinnati, Ohio and Education Resources, Inc. (ERI) headquartered in Medfield, Massachusetts announce a partnership to strengthen the quality and accessibility of continuing education for neonatal therapists.
Neonatal occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech language pathologists have struggled for decades to find relevant and specialized education to meet their needs in serving infants and families in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Neonatal therapists address developmental challenges and milestones encountered by infants and their families in the NICU and in transition home.
The evident lack of specialized resources, and the inconsistent neonatal care that followed, led occupational therapist, Sue Ludwig, to found NANT in 2009. She explains, “Neonatal therapists were largely self-educated in the past and had no way of connecting with each other. That led to inconsistent practice and isolation. Therapists deserved access to age appropriate education and resources so that infants and families received the best possible care. We needed a trusted space, a home, so we could connect and grow.”
NANT provides multiple ways for neonatal therapists to connect, learn, mentor and inspire while advancing this focused field of therapy on a global level. NANT provides a significant percentage of its education online with one major exception, its annual conference.
Carol Loria and Barbara Goldfarb, both pediatric physical therapists, founded Education Resources over 25 years ago with a vision of providing valuable education for therapists that can truly make a difference in their patient’s lives. Providing over 350 live courses per year, with an ever-growing number focused on neonatal-specific content, Education Resources, Inc. has a reputation for providing quality, evidence-based continuing education (CEUs) presented by some of the best speakers in the neonatal space.
According to Carol Loria, “We are very excited about this partnership as it will enable any neonatal therapist regardless of their years of experience, to access resources to enhance their professional development in terms of skills and critical thinking.” This formal collaboration allows both organizations to maintain their individual identity and structure while extending their reach, and deepening, broadening and streamlining their educational offerings.
Education Resources, Inc. will expand its live workshops and in-house trainings for NICU and developmental therapists while NANT will continue to master online education for its members and global learners. The collaboration does not influence NANT’s annual conference.
It is a partnership that truly serves the founders’ visions for better education resulting in improved patient outcomes.
To learn more about NANT visit www.neonataltherapists.com and for live courses for neonatal therapists from ERI visit www.educationresourcesinc.com/nicu-ceu-courses
]]>Cancer Treatment Giving Patients Hope, Not Only a Cure, Increasing Survivorship
A great article from the New York Times:
When Cancer Treatment Offers Hope More Than Cure
By MIKKAEL A. SEKERES, M.D.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/when-cancer-treatment-offers-hope-more-than-cure/?emc=edit_tnt_20160218&nlid=54406110&tntemail0=y&_r=1
“For my patient, I came to see, treatment was inextricably linked to hope, and I suspected that it was her hope, much more than the chemotherapy, that had kept her going years beyond what I would have predicted”.
Please share your experiences and challenges with our community of therapists.
Education Resources Education Resources is offering:
Evidence Based Cancer Rehabilitation Resources and Its Role in Cancer Survivorship
Lisa VanHoose
April 1-2, 2016 Burlington, WI
August 26-27, 2016 – Laguna Hills, CA
September 23-24, 2016 – White Plains, NY
October 28-29, 2016 – Framingham, MA
November 18-19, 2016 – Hollywood, FL
“Lisa is an amazing, dynamic, engaging therapist/educator that dispenses valuable and pertinent information in an easy to understand manner with humor to keep her audience engaged.” – Lisa Mclutcheon, OTR
“I have been a therapist for 24 years and have attended several continuing education courses. Lisa is exceptionally good at teaching, keeping your interest and is very informative about the subject. She is very thorough and passionate. Highly recommend her.” – Sargeeta Michoche, PT
“Lisa presents pertinent, evidence-based information in an informal comfortable environment that is conducive to learning and sharing. Her wealth of knowledge and experience is vast.” -Mary Ryan, PTA
GAS (Goal Attainment Scaling) to Measure and Document Progress
Education Resources, Inc. faculty Suzanne Davis Bombria, PT, C/NDT and Kate Bain OT, C/NDT have conducted the first half of an exciting research project entitled “Moving and Doing-Functional Outcomes of Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT)- A Multi-Modal, Goal Focused Intervention to Promote the Performance of Daily Living Tasks by Children with Cerebral Palsy and other neuromotor disorders-A Randomized controlled Trial.”
Fifteen families and children between the ages of 12 months and 18 years participated in this pilot study. Advanced level NDTA therapists treated the children individually in an ‘intensive treatment’ period twice a day for 6 days. Within a child friendly, clinic based protocol focused on the child achieving their personal goals; they utilized “Goal Attainment Scaling”. The children were filmed to allow for blind ratings from randomized filmed data from pre, post and follow up time periods. The focus was on goal based posture & movement changes (as described in their GAS scales) from pre to post testing. Families were also interviewed. Goal attainment Scaling (GAS) is a methodology that shows promise for application to measuring and documenting progress, intervention effectiveness, research and program evaluation.
This initial research attempts to operationalize a definition of NDT treatment in order to establish treatment fidelity. It is hoped to serve as a model for analyzing NDT treatment’s efficacy in the future.
Part 2 of this research is scheduled for early in 2017.
Davis and Bain are presenting on the Goal Attainment Scale in Houston, TX and Mountainside, NJ in March.
For full details, venues, to download a brochure or to register:
]]>