Society of Alberta Occupational Therapists
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February 2019
Seating & Mobility – Adult and Geriatric Populations
Register for one or both days! Therapy Assistants can attend for 50% off the registration fee when attending with their OT! Day 1 – February 23, 2019 It IS More Than 4 Wheels!: How The Mat Assessment Influences the Prescription of Seating and Mobility Devices in the Adult Population Session Level: Beginner – Intermediate Learning objectives: • Describe surfaces on which to complete a hands on Mat Assessment • List three components of three-point positioning • List three components of…
Find out more »April 2019
WEBINAR: Is a Career Refresh What You Need to Overcome Burnout & Fatigue?
Burnout is something that we often don’t talk about, but it’s a serious issue with rehab therapists. From interviews and surveys with physical therapists from across Canada, Andrew discovered that 13% of clinicians were looking to change careers or pursue non-clinical careers. Therapists enjoy seeing patients, but day-in, day-out patient care can often lead to clinical fatigue and burnout. For therapists struggling with their career, the options may seem limited. They are left finding a non-clinical management role, opening their…
Find out more »Responding Appropriately to Grief and Loss as a Healthcare Professional or Wellness Provider
Healthcare professionals are in a unique and challenging position when it comes to supporting people with life changing and life threatening illness and death. These professionals, caregiving in the front lines,are dealing with difficult and emotional situations everyday, sometimes without the formal training on how to be supportive. Grief is the internal and natural response to loss that human being experience, and everyone, either in their personal or professional life, will inevitably be faced with a situation of significant loss…
Find out more »Lower Extremity Edema Management
Presenter: Glyn Murgatroyd, BPE, BScOT SAOT Members Receive a $50 Discount on this Two-Day Workshop Lower Extremity Edema Management is a comprehensive two-day seminar, focusing on developing strong foundational skills in the practice of edema management. This course covers the full spectrum from theory, assessment, technical skills of vascular and sensory assessments, compression therapy and compression stockings/systems. Participants will have an opportunity to practice vascular assessments using doppler ultrasound and photoplethysmograph machines. Vendors from 3M Canada, BSN Medical and Market…
Find out more »May 2019
Chronic Pain Management
This is a dynamic, interactive workshop with an emphasis on making a complex, biopsychosocial experience and its treatment easier to explain to your colleagues and clients. It includes group learning and small group discussion and problem solving. Stories and metaphors will be used to illustrate concepts. You will apply the information provided in the workshop to case examples. Discussion of the participants’ various practice environments will add further opportunity to apply this learning to real world clients and settings. Learning…
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