Video
Accreditation Information:
Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Importance of the team approach for neruo rehab.
- Medical versus patient-centered models.
- Programs versus discipline departments.
- Multidisciplinary versus transdisciplinary approach.
- Team communication.
- Self-contained rehab unit.
- Morning meetings, shift changes.
- Family conferences.
- Update emails, phone calls, hands-off communication, written communication.
Hour 2
- Team members in neuro rehabilitation:
- Patient.
- Patient’s family.
- Physician.
- Nurse.
- Speech therapist.
- Occupational therapist.
- Physical therapist.
- Recreation therapist.
- Neuropsychologist.
- Dietician.
- Pharmacist.
- Social services.
Hour 3
- Co-treatment in neuro rehab.
- Billing, documentation of co-treatment.
- Examples of team approach interventions.
- Eating/swallowing.
- Medication management.
- Bowl and bladder.
- Voice intensity.
- Gait training.
- Cooking.
- Therapeutic environment.
- Team building in neurorehabilitation.
- Building and maintaining a good team.
- Characteristics of a good team.