
Explore how occupational therapy integrates chronic pain prevention into standard practice by examining needs assessment, capstone goals, learning activities, and current literature versus clinical practice.
Develop and implement a chronic pain prevention program in occupational therapy, rooted in CBT and MOHO, incorporating staff and patient education and evidence-based interventions.
Develop an evidence-based chronic pain prevention program by synthesizing literature, creating educational handouts and a home exercise template, and deploying a screening tool within occupational therapy practice.
Explore artefacts approved by OSF Saint Francis Hospital for chronic pain prevention after stroke, including educational handouts, mindfulness practices, and home exercise templates for occupational therapists.
The conclusion offers a brief quiz on chronic pain prevention in occupational therapy, emphasizing mental health, stroke recovery as a target, and study limitations.
This course will be covering my doctoral capstone project of the final outcome of creating a chronic pain prevention program. Currently, I am an occupational therapy doctoral candidate at Drake University. To complete my doctorate degree of occupational therapy, I chose to work with the neurological rehabilitation population due to being passionate, interested, and wanting to enhance my knowledge within this setting. The project was inspired and focused on the stroke population after discharged from rehabilitation in the acute occupational therapy setting. Overall, the goal for the project was to create a sustainable and practical chronic pain program at a clinical site.
During the course, you will go over the evidence base approach, models and themes that had influences, learning objectives, and learning activity to complete the learning objectives for the program. This project was completed within fourteen weeks along with daily clinical practice within the acute neurological setting. I was provided guidance from a licensed and register occupational therapist for both clinical practice and the capstone project. Along with the guidance, the clinical site had to approve every aspect of the program. This was to ensure the project meets the clinical sites values and current established policies. If you have any questions regarding the course, feel free to contact me at brooks.ginn@drake.edu.