HOW TO CHOOSE THE MOST SUITABLE ASSESSMENT AND OUTCOME MEASURES IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRACTICE (Community Living Older Adults – Home Safety)

SESSION OVERVIEW 

Join us for this 2 -part interactive online workshop series presented by Dr Bess Fowler that will provide you with the tools to choose the most suitable assessment and outcome measure for your clinical practice.  The series will include a project that you will complete in your own time between workshops to support consolidation of your learning from the first workshop.   

Workshop 1 

The first workshop will cover the theory and practice of critically appraising health measures, enabling participants to learn the skills necessary for choosing the most suitable high-quality measures for occupational therapy practice. The Outcome Measures Rating Form (OMRF), devised by the renown occupational therapist Professor Mary Law and colleagues, will provide a template to systematically appraise occupational therapy measures.  The Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOME FAST) will be used as an example.   

Project 

Following workshop 1, registrants will select an occupational therapy measure relevant to their clinical practice. The chosen measure will then be critically appraised by the participant over the 5 weeks between Sessions 1 and 2.  It anticipated that this project will require 1 hour per week to complete.  The presenter, Dr Bess Fowler will provide individual professional support, via email, during the project to those registrants who would like to benefit from this support.  

Workshop 2  

The second workshop will consist of registrants presenting their critical appraisal of their chosen measure using the OMRF (approx. 10 mins). The presenter and other members of the group will have the opportunity to engage and ask questions. 

Key learning Objectives 

 Attendance at this 2-part workshop series is focused on the following key learning objectives: 

Session 1 

1. Understand the importance of clinimetric properties of measures, particularly usability and responsiveness, in evaluation and outcome measures applicable to occupational therapy practice.  

2. Understand critical appraisal skills necessary to analysing occupational therapy measures. 

3. Understand and apply the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework - Fourth Edition to integrate evaluation (assessment), outcome measurement with interventions. 

4. Understand the necessity of integrating occupational measurement into organisational systems. 

5. Become familiar with measurement resources, particularly on-line. 

6. Understand professional responsibility to apply research evidence in measurement to ensure quality occupational therapy practice.   

Session 2   

7. Consolidate knowledge of critical appraisal by reviewing a measure of choice. 

8. Gain professional confidence in presenting the conclusions, evidence to peers and presenter. 

9. Share experience with choosing high-quality measures with peers and  presenter. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND 

This session is suitable for: 

Practicing occupational therapists, and managers at all levels from public and private health sectors working with older adults living in the community.   

Organisations wishing to embed outcome measures as part of their clinical delivery processes may wish to attend as a group. 

Please note this workshop series is most relevant to occupational therapists working with older adults living in the community. 

PRESENTER 

Dr Bess Fowler PhD OT 

Dr Bess Fowler is an experienced occupational therapist, clinical researcher, epidemiologist, and educator of many years standing. Bess has researched and applied health measurement in practice, in a variety of public and private clinical settings and has recently published a paper on measures suitable for physically disabled children and young people in the home environment.  

Dr Fowler presented this workshop series for OTA in 2023 with positive feedback from attendees reporting the presenter was ‘knowledgeable and practical’. 

WORKSHOP DETAILS 

DATES: 
2-part workshop series: 

Workshop 1: 6 November 2024 (Wednesday)
Workshop 2: 4 December 2024 (Wednesday) 

TIMES: 
Workshops 1 & 2

• 1:00pm VIC / NSW / ACT / TAS  
• 12:30pm SA  
• 12 noon QLD
• 11:30am NT 
• 10:00am WA  

Each workshop runs or approximately 1.5 hours

Please login 10 minutes before the scheduled presentation time  

RECORDING: 

This workshop series will not be recorded as it is an interactive workshop. 

CPD HOURS: 

Total CPD claimable workshop hours: 3

Additionally you will be able to claim CPD hours for time undertaking your project.  

REGISTRATION FEES: 

EARLY BIRD: Register on or before 17 October 2024
OTA Member: $177
New Graduate Member: $159
Non-member: $230

STANDARD: Register from 18 October 2024
OTA Member: $195
OTA New Graduate Member: $176
Non-member: $254

^{(All pricing is inclusive of GST)}

**Registration closes on Thursday 31 October 2024**

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VENUE: 

This is a 100% virtual event.  

You will receive an email with details to access the event the day before the scheduled event date. 

Waiting room will open 10 minutes early to allow you time to login and test your technology. 

WORKSHOP MATERIALS: 

Our workshop materials are provided to you electronically via an online platform. Approximately one week prior to the commencement of the workshop, we will email instructions for you to follow to access these workshop resources. 

If you do not receive this correspondence within the time frame stated above, please contact the OTA representative using the contact details below.  

To ensure you receive all correspondence we recommend registering for this workshop with a personal email address. 

DISCLAIMER 

All information is correct at the time of publication. OTA reserves the right to alter or delete items from the CPD calendar as required, and takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions, and changes. 

All resources including copies of the presentation, along with all supporting documents and links are not for distribution and are the property of the presenter. 

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS 

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CONTACT US 

Please email info@otaus.com.au or phone 1300 682 878