Delivering Culturally Competent Care: Strategies for Clinicians
Course: #3640Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 858 Reviews
This course defines cultural and linguistic competency and related terms and presents factors that may affect the ability to provide culturally and linguistically competent care. This session addresses the need for self-awareness in culturally and linguistically competent medical care, the differences between disease and illness, and factors that may influence a patient's experience of illness as well as the health beliefs and practices of some cultures. The session offers an approach to eliciting a patient’s cultural health beliefs that can help inform therapists to deliver culturally appropriate treatments.
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Course Type: Video, Audio, Text
CEUs/Hours Offered: AOTA/0.1 Intermediate, OT Service Delivery, Foundational Knowledge; CE Broker/1.0 Home Study, General (FL), Management (AL), General Continuing Education (GA), Direct Client/patient Services In Occupational Therapy (SC), Related To OT (AZ), Related To OT (LA), Directly Related To OT (MS), Directly Related To OT (TN), CE Broker #20-640788; IACET/0.1; NBCOT PDUs/1.25 Intermediate, Education And/or Research
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to define cultural and linguistic competency.
- After this course, participants will be able to list cultural and social factors that may have an impact on a patients experience of illness.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe factors that affect a therapists ability to provide culturally and linguistically competent care.
Course created on February 22, 2018
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-15 Minutes | Definitions and Terminology |
| 15-25 Minutes | Factors Affecting Competence |
| 25-30 Minutes | Models of Cultural Competence |
| 30-40 Minutes | Health Related Experience and Person Centered Care |
| 40-50 Minutes | Balancing Approaches |
| 50-55 Minutes | Therapist as Advocate |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary, Q & A |
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Kathleen Weissberg
OTD OTR/L
Dr. Kathleen Weissberg, (MS in OT, 1993; Doctoral 2014) in her 25+ years of practice, has worked in rehabilitation and long-term care as an executive, researcher and educator. She has established numerous programs in nursing facilities; authored peer-reviewed publications on topics such as low vision, dementia quality care, and wellness; has spoken at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally, for 20+ State Health Care Associations, and for 25+ state LeadingAge affiliates. She provides continuing education support to over 17,000 therapists, nurses, and administrators nationwide as National Director of Education for Select Rehabilitation. She is a Certified Dementia Care Practitioner and a Certified Montessori Dementia Care Practitioner. She serves as the Region 1 Director for the American Occupational Therapy Association Political Affairs Affiliates and is an adjunct professor at both Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA and Gannon University in Erie, PA.
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