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OY309: Neurology
Semester 2 | Credits: 5
This interdisciplinary module introduces the students to the more common neurological conditions encountered in practice.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Respect and uphold the rights, dignity and autonomy of every service user including their role in the diagnostic, therapeutic and social care process
- Understand confidentiality in the context of the team setting
- Understand the principles of professional decision-making and be able to make informed decisions within the context of competing demands including those relating to ethical conflicts and available resources
- Be able to communicate diagnosis/assessment and/or treatment/management options in a way that can be understood by the service user
- Be able to modify and adapt communication methods and styles, including verbal and nonverbal methods to suit the individual service users considering issues of language, culture, beliefs and health and/or social care needs
- Recognise service users as active participants in their health and social care and be able to support service users in communicating their health and/or social care needs, choices and concerns
- Understand the need to build and sustain professional relationships as both an independent practitioner and collaboratively as a member of a team
- Understand the role and impact of effective interdisciplinary team working in meeting service user needs and be able to effectively contribute to decision-making within a team setting
- Understand the role of relationships with professional colleagues and other workers in service delivery and the need to create professional relationships based on mutual respect and trust
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of relevant biological sciences including anatomy, human development, social and behavioural sciences, occupational science and other related sciences, together with a knowledge of health and wellbeing, function, disease, disorder, and dysfunction and be able to apply this to the practice of occupational therapy with consideration to the person – environment – occupation relationship
- Be able to provide adequate instruction and supervision of occupational therapy interventions when delegating tasks to others
- Be able to select and use appropriate assistive technologies and therapeutic modalities for the service user’s occupational needs and functional level; be able to give adequate instruction for their use; and be able to assess the safe use of these by service users
- Relationship between body functions and structures and human capacity to participate in occupation
- Knowledge about interprofessional collaboration
- Managing self and others
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- JANE BOWMAN:
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- CELINE GORDON:
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- RUTH MCMENAMIN:
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- AGNES SHIEL:
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- RACHEL ANN LEONARD:
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Reading List
- "Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice" by Bundy, A.C., Murray, E.A. & Lane, S.J.
Publisher: FA Davis Company - "Occupational Therapy and Stroke" by Edmans, J., Champion, A. & Hill, L.
Publisher: Whurr Publishers - "Tools for Practice in Occupational Therapy: A Structured Approach to Core Skills and Processes" by Hagedorn, R.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone - "Foundations for Practice in Occupational Therapy" by Hagedorn, R.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone - "Barr's The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpoint" by Kiernan, J.A.
Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins - "Introduction to Brain and Behaviour" by Kolb, B.
Publisher: Worth Publishing - "Neuropsychological Assessment" by Lezak, M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press - "Neuroscience: Fundamentals for Rehabilitation" by Lundy-Ekman, L.
Publisher: Elsevier / Saunders Press - "Occupational Therapy and Physical Dysfunction: Principles, Skills and Practice" by Turner, A.W., Foster, M. & Johnson, S.E.
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences - "Measurement in Neurological Rehabilitation" by Wade, D.T.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.