OT conversations

In this episode we name various motor behaviors and we link it to specific part of the brain. This will help you understand and name the motor behavior symptoms caused by neurological impairment.

As Occupational Therapy is a 'Trade' and a profession, surely it has tools that it utilizes. This episode discusses the tools of Occupational Therapy.

This episode gives an overview of the performance component called cognition to guide and equip clinicians with terminologies that you can use in practice.

This episode talks about performance components - the little parts that make up the a task. Knowing the performance component will enable an OT to develop and improve their skills in activity analysis and it is a core and foundation knowledge that all Occupational Therapists should know.

In this episode, I talk to you about the 4 parameters on where you base your assessment and intervention of a person's engagement with their ADLs. By knowing these parameters, you will be able to plan your treatment much better. This episode is beneficial to all levels of clinician from Band 5 all the way to Band 8s including students and rehabilitation assistants.

What are ADLs from the perspective of an Occupational Therapist? We hear about it but what are they really? In this his episode, we talk about 15 ADL activities and we sort out those that we can and cannot address if we are working in secondary, tertiary and quaternary care. We talk about the 9 specific ADLs that we can look into during the acute care and we highlight the 3 essential ADL tasks tha...

In this episode, we talk about a very practical model of practice that defines all the interventions that OTs will do in a physical dysfunction setting...and even perhaps psychosocial dysfunction as well. It is so useful, simple and yet, it just makes sense. This may end a clinician's search for a model of practice.

This episode of OT conversations talks about the Core Input of Occupational Therapy in a hospital care setting. Here we discuss how knowing the core input can assist in service evaluation and how it can assist in measuring efficiency savings. This is suitable for Band 7s and above but it is also suitable for all growing clinicians as it prepares them to be mindful of the service that they can be p...

The episode talks about continuum of care. What it is and what are the responsibilities of an OT working in the varying continuum. This OT conversation is suitable to students, newly qualified OTs, Band 6 Band 7s. In fact, it is suitable for all levels of clinicians.

In the United Kingdom, we usually come across OT students from different universities and teaching them is often complicated by the varying methods of how the universities evaluate their students. In this episode, I talk about the simple and universal framework to make educating OT students simple.

This episode talks about the 9 conditions that will make interdisciplinary team work. This podcast may be useful to OTs working with difficult teams. This episode will give you a tool that you can use to compare the working dynamics of the team you are working with and hopefully, you can use it to gently direct the team to perform is a much more cohesive way.

In this final part, I share with you 5 OT programs that you can consider replicating and using in your own critical care area. I have tried these programs for the last 2 years and I am confident that patients will fit into 1 of the 5 programs at any given point. Unless, patients are really not suitable because of intense medical instability.

Part 3 of OT in Critical Care Talks about an overview of the types of Occupational Therapy treatment and the modalities on how treatments are delivered in a critical care area.

This is part 2 of 4 part discussion about OT in Critical Care. Part 2 talks about when can OT commence in critical care and when can an OT start seeing patient in critical care. It attempts to answer how long should OT be provided for, how long and how frequent the sessions be and when should Occupational Therapy be terminated.

This is a 4 part podcast discussion Occupational Therapy in Critical Care. Part 1 explores the general Objective in Critical Care, the limitation of OT in critical care, It talks about 'performance components, issues about 'wellbeing' and risks of Occupational Deprivation. Here I talk about the 3 reasons when and why an OT can be involved.

Here I talk about 5 categories of Occupational Therapy intervention. If you are a clinician who will take on new students, this is invaluable because the interventions are packaged to be easily understood. If you are a student, this is a great start to have an overview of the OT interventions because it categorizes everything that we do. This concept came from the model of Ecology of Human perform...

In this episode, I talk about the signs and symptoms of problems with consciousness. I am inviting our OTs, OT students, Nurses and even the wider multidisciplinary team to open up their thoughts on the few symptoms that are well established terminologies in the field of psychiatry and psychology. These days, the hot topic is Delirium and we are stuck to using it until another 'popular theme' come...

This session gives a simplified view of how NHS makes money and how the Trust lose money. It talks about tips on what OTs can do so NHS can save money

Here are some tips to make assessment less daunting for OT students and new OT clinicians. Hopefully, this will make assessment easier when you see your patients.

This is a discussion and conversation with Occupational therapy apprentice. We explored the model of human occupation, and I try to coach the occupational therapy apprentice so that he can have a better understanding of. Models and concepts occupational therapy.