Author: @Kirstie_OT

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#OTalk 15th January 2019 – Applying your learning in Practice

@Kirstie_OT

This weeks #OTalk is on the topic of “applying your learning” and will be hosted by Sarah Lawson (@SLawsonOT).

Here is what Sarah had to say…

Hi, I am Sarah (@SLawsonOT), I am an Occupational Therapist, MPhil/PhD student, volunteer member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) North West Regional Committee and Conference Development Team and along with @HearleD we develop TRAMmCPD.

TRAMmCPD comprises of the TRAMm (Tell, Record, Apply, Monitor and measure) Model and its tools the TRAMm Tracker and TRAMm Trail, which collectively are known as TRAMmCPD. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a personal and subjective journey, as well as our professional responsibility and a mandatory requirement of our registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). In order to be effective we need to Tell others, Record and Apply what we have learnt through our CPD activities, Monitor our progress and measure the impact (Hearle et al 2016). Information about TRAMmCPD and free downloads are available from our website (www.TRAMmCPD.com) and if you are a member of RCOT our book us available to view, free via the RCOT website.

Both Deb and I are carrying out Doctoral research into CPD and the TRAMmCPD and our findings have led to a more explicit focus within the TRAMm Model of the importance of the applicationof learning in practice. It is not enough to record that we have learnt something, and reflected but what we do next with what we have learnt is fundamental to meeting the HCPC Standards for CPD.

For the #RCOT2018 Conference with a little help from some friends and students we put together #CPDBingo with one game for before and during conference the other for after conference.

How do you Apply your learning?

The decision to attend a conference or training can involve a lot of planning. You have booked your place, negotiated time from work, arranged the funding, saved money for the trip, all your domestic arrangements are made. You attend the event, learn a lot and have a great time.

What next?

You have your certificates safely stored in the carrier bag under the bed… but will your Certificate/s of Attendance be just that or will it/they form a part of your wider engagement in your CPD?

You have engaged in a myriad of CPD activities, some formal others informal, you have a list if you need it in your diary.

You have learnt a range of new things, from talking and listening to colleagues, through social media, reading, listening to podcasts and a whole host of other every day activities.

How do these become part of your CPD?

Questions to Consider:

Q1: What types of activities have you learnt the most from this year?

Q2: If you were at #RCOT2018 in person, followed sessions on Twitter or read any of the blog squad posts what were your most significant learning points, and which have you applied in practice? If you did not attend #RCOT2018 what other events have you learnt the most from and which have changed your practice in some way?

Q3: How have you Applied what you have learnt to benefit yourself?

Q4: How have you Applied what you have learnt to benefit your service users?

Q5: How have you Applied what you have learnt to benefit your organisation?

Q6: What other types of Application of your learning have you done?

Post Chat

Host: @SLawsonOT

OTalk support: @kirstieot

Online Transcript

#otalk healthcare social media transcript january 15th 2019

he Numbers

1.656M Impressions
373 Tweets
34 Participants
298 Avg Tweets/Hour
11 Avg Tweets/Participant

#OTalk Participants

 

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#OTalk 18th December 2018 – OT and Self Disclosure

@Kirstie_OT

This weeks #OTalk is on the topic of “self disclosure” and will be hosted by Solei Naisbett Jones @soleinj_.

Here is what Solei had to say…

Hi I’m Solei! I am a newly qualified occupational therapist currently working in neurology. After qualifying in 2017, I pursued postgraduate studies and completed my master’s degree in Advanced Professional Practice at the University of Plymouth. My research dissertation for my MSc explored therapist self-disclosure by occupational therapists. I am excited to host an #OTalk surrounding this topic area to share the findings of my research and hear about your experiences of self-disclosing to clients in the therapeutic relationship.

Therapist self-disclosure by occupational therapists has not yet been explored in depth within the profession. It can be defined as “non-immediate exposure of personal information regarding the therapist’s life outside the therapeutic encounter, such as emotional struggles, health status, past experiences, personal beliefs, values, or life circumstances” (Audet and Everall, 2010). It has been debated that therapist self-disclosure can impede therapy, creating role confusion, client uncertainty and therapist fear of client judgment (Moore and Jenkins, 2012). Despite this, it is also suggested that self-disclosure can bring therapeutic benefits by facilitating rapport through showing trust, genuineness and honesty on the therapist’s part (Audet and Everall, 2010).

As a person-centred profession which honours the importance of emotional sharing, rapport building, collaboration and partnership (Taylor, 2008), therapists’ interaction and communication with their clients is highly valued within occupational therapy (Boyt-Schell, Scaffa and Cohn, 2014). As occupational therapists, one of our core skills is our therapeutic use of self, a valuable tool in which we make a conscious effort to control our responses to enable client comfort and reassurance (Taylor, 2008). Arguably, therapist self-disclosure is a key component of the therapeutic use of self. As occupational therapists, we have a responsibility to maintain professional boundaries of the therapeutic relationship (Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT, 2015). However, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, 2017) also indicate that as occupational therapists, we are required to work in partnership with clients, adopting an approach which motivates, involves and centres on the client. Ultimately, this #OTalk will explore and discuss the potential enhancing or damaging effect of self-disclosure by occupational therapists on the therapeutic relationship.

Questions:

  1. What do you consider to be “self-disclosure with a patient/client”?
  2. What leads you to share personal experiences with patients/clients? Do you disclose to patients/clients often?
  3. What do you consider the main benefits and potential issues to be when disclosing information to patients/clients?
  4. What conversations/discussions have you had with colleagues about self-disclosing to a patient/client in practice?
  5. Do you think guidance surrounding therapist disclosure of personal information to patients/clients would be helpful for occupational therapists? What should the guidance address/include?

References:

Audet, C, D. and Everall, R, D. (2010). ‘Therapist self-disclosure and the therapeutic relationship: a phenomenological study from the client perspective’. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.38(3), pp. 327-342.

Boyt-Schell, B, A., Scaffa, M, E., Gillen, G., and Cohn,, E, S. (2014). ‘Contemporary Occupational Therapy Practice’ in Boyt-Schell, B, A., Scaffa, M, E., Gillen, G., and Cohn, E, S. Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy Twelfth Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, pp. 47-58.

Health and Care Professions Council (2017). Standards of conduct, performance and Ethics. London: HCPC.

Moore, J. and Jenkins, P. (2012). ”Coming out’ in therapy? Perceived risks and benefits of self-disclosure of sexual orientation by gay and lesbian therapists to straight clients’. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 12(4), pp. 308-315.

Royal College of Occupational Therapists. (2015). Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.London: RCOT.

Post Chat

Host: @soleinj_

Support on the Otalk account: @otrach

Online Transcript #OTalk Healthcare Social Media Transcript December 18th 2018

#OTalk Healthcare Social Media Transcript December 18th 2018

The Numbers

1.469M Impressions
609 Tweets
51 Participants
487 Avg Tweets/Hour
12 Avg Tweets/Participant

#OTalk Participants

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#OTalk 4th December 2018 – Making Better Use of Systematic Reviews.

@Kirstie_OT

This month’s #OTalk Research topic is ‘making better use of systematic reviews’ and will be hosted by @KatrinaBannigan, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Plymouth.

Here’s what Katrina had to say:

Earlier this year I was invited by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports to write an editorial (Bannigan 2018). I chose to focus on the role of systematic reviews in developing a complex intervention. The reason for this was systematic reviews have been on the receiving end of criticism; it has been suggested that systematic reviewing has almost become a self-perpetuating industry. Systematic reviews have come to be regarded as an end in themselves which, if we do not make best use of them, they are. As with all research—and systematic reviews are research—their findings are redundant if they are not used. This is why this month’s research #OTalk Research is focussing on making better use of systematic reviews. So whether you are a student, practitioner, researcher, manager, commissioner or policy maker please join in the discussion to share your experience and/ or learn about making better use of systematic reviews.

You can read my editorial here: https://bit.ly/2LFan9s

In the #OTalk meeting we will use the following questions to structure to the discussion but please feel free to join in with other questions and perspectives:

  1. What is your experience of using systematic reviews to date?
  1. How can/should systematic reviews be used in clinical practice?
  1. How can/should systematic reviews be used in research?
  1. What are your top tips for using systematic reviews?

Reference

Bannigan K (2018) Systematic review: the first step in developing a complex intervention JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports: May 2018 – Volume 16 – Issue 5 – p 1079–1080 doi: 10.11124/JBISRIR-2017-003788

Post Chat

Host: @KatrinaBannigan

On the Otalk research support: @hooper_ek

Online transcript

#OTalk Healthcare Social Media Transcript December 4th 2018

1.229M Impressions
371 Tweets
35 Participants
297 Avg Tweets/Hour
11 Avg Tweets/Participant

#OTalk Participants

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#OTalk 27th November 2018 – Occupation Focused Goal Setting Tools for Children and Young People 

@Kirstie_OT

This weeks #OTalk is on the topic of “Goal Setting Tools for Children and Young People” and will be hosted by Emma Laird (@EmmalairdOT).

Here is what Emma had to say…

Occupational therapy offers a unique perspective known as an occupation-centred approach (Fisher, 2013) to promote engagement and participation within occupations which supports health and well-being.  When identifying therapeutic goals for children and young people, this has previously been influenced by what the parents/family consider to be the main concerns and priorities (Pollock et al, 2014; Rodger and Kennedy-Behr, 2017).  However, it is recognised that children need to be active in setting goals where possible to enhance engagement and participation in interventions to improve outcomes.  For intervention to be client-centred, a collaborative goal setting approach involving the child and their family is essential to identifying what the priorities are whilst being meaningful and important to the child (Bamm and Rosenbaum, 2008).  

There has been a professional shift towards occupation-centred practice (Rodger and Keen, 2010) and the need for tools to help facilitate children to self-report their goals.  This has been area of practice whereby new tools have been published to help the therapist in empowering the child and family to identify occupation-based goals (Rodger and Kennedy-Behr, 2017) which is in line with government policies.  

Within my practice, goal setting helps inform our clinical practice by delivering effective intervention that is client-centred and evidenced based (Costa, Brauchie and Kennedy-Behr, 2017).  However, with the development of new self-reporting tools and professional changes whereby we focus on occupation this has made me ask questions and look at the evidence to support my clinical practice.

Questions:-

  1. What goal setting tools are being used across different specialist areas of paediatrics and why?
  2. How can we measure the impact of goal setting with children, young people and families?
  3. How can we use goal setting tools as an outcome measure?
  4. How can we support collaborative working within the goal setting process and improve functional outcomes?
  5. What are the gaps in research and how can this be addressed/
  6. What are the opportunities and challenges of introducing a new goal setting tool into the service 

POST CHAT

Host: @EmmalairdOT

OTalk Support: @OT_rach

#OTalk Healthcare Social Media Transcript November 27th 2018

Online transcript

The Numbers

714.205K Impressions
229 Tweets
22 Participants
183 Avg Tweets/Hour
10 Avg Tweets/Participant

#OTalk Participants

 

 

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#OTalkonTour is hitting the road again! Come and find the #OTalk Team at this years @TheOTshow.

@Kirstie_OT

As you may know, the Team often travel around, not just promoting #OTalk but also talking about the benefits and implications of using social media. We also give talks and facilitate workshops on technology, Continuing Professional Development, as well as the safe and effective use of social media within occupational therapy practice.

On the 21st and 22nd of November we hit the road again and take #OTalkonTour, this time heading to The OT Show in Birmingham.  The Team have a stand and will also be presenting on the use of Tweetchats for Continuing professional Development.

So why visit the #OTalk on Stand J66?

-Stop by and get your social media questions answered.

-Learn more about the opportunities and barriers in using Twitter for social media by viewing our posters or picking up a copy of the latest research to share with your colleagues.

-Grab yourself a free Twitter profile picture taken by our professional photographer, Anthony.

-Take a fun photo with our #OTalkonTour selfie frame and props. For those of you at this years RCOT conference you will know this was a big hit.

-Say hello to the team! We love meeting members of the #OTalk community in person and putting a face to your Twitter handle.

-And of course, nab a sweet or two!

If you are attending the OT Show be sure to stop by Theatre 1 at 13:50 on Wednesday to hear the teams presentation. 

You can also follow the goings on over the two days by following us on Instagram Here or via the Twitter hashtag #OTalkonTour.

You can find out more about The OT Show and sign up Here