Toileting: Identifying and Treating the Unspoken ADL

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Toileting, while a daily task, continues to be inconsistently addressed by clinicians. Both client and clinician can feel uneasy discussing this socially-sensitive topic; however, attaining client-centered goals expands a client's occupational performance in self-care, home and community mobility, social participation, and role management (AOTA, 2020). Occupational therapy practitioners are experts in therapeutic use of self, task analysis, and both spoken and unspoken communication (AOTA, 2020). By fine-tuning these already-existing traits, clinicians will obtain a more accurate, robust occupational profile and leverage this information for the effective implementation of evidence-based methods in support of toileting routines. Toileting is an essential ADL that all occupational therapy practitioners of any experience level, in every setting, encounter either directly or indirectly. This webinar layers education for toileting into existing occupational therapy skills such as collecting an occupational profile, modifying environmental needs, recommending appropriate equipment, and supporting healthy habits for improved client occupational performance.   After this webinar, participants will be more self-assured when recommending specific toileting aids, hygiene equipment, behavior modification, and integration of new habits into existing routines.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Affirm the evaluation and treatment of incontinence are well within the scope of general occupational therapy practitioners across various settings.
• Apply dynamic components from the occupational therapy domain and process to reaffirm that pelvic floor interventions are within every practitioner's capability, without extensive, specialized training.
• Customize effective interventions by extrapolating client-specific details captured during the intake interview.

Earn 1.50 Contact Hours

SPEAKER 

Lindsey Vestal, MS, OTR/L

Lindsey Vestal graduated as an occupational therapist from New York University in 2011 destined to be in pelvic health. She followed her destiny, knowing she was going to be a double horned unicorn. Not many people know what occupational therapy is and add in pelvic health, well, she knew she had to perfect her elevator speech. She became the proud founder of the first in-home pelvic health practice in New York City (the Functional Pelvis) run by an occupational therapist. Now, she teaches occupational therapists how to become rock star pelvic floor therapists (aka double horned unicorns.). She has had the honor of supporting more than 1,000 occupational therapists in becoming pelvic health therapists. Her goal is that 10,000 occupational therapists are trained in pelvic health by 2030!

She is the host of a weekly live show called "OT Empower Hour" on her Facebook group OTs for Pelvic Health which has more than 5,500 members. There are more than 150 hours of free training available. She is also the host of her weekly podcast "OTs in Pelvic Health" empowering fellow occupational therapists with the path to take to have a successful and fulfilling career in pelvic health. Lindsey will be publishing a OTs in Pelvic Health Case Studies book this year.