Interdisciplinary approach to improving continence in dependent assistance patients in the inpatient rehabilitation setting

Presenter(s): Kaitlyn Carballo, OTR/L

Content Areas: Physical Disabilities - including: Neurorehabilitation, Orthopedic; General

Target Audience: Intermediate-level

Course Description: Incontinence in the dependent patient population is a common occurrence. The importance of a bowel/bladder program and how to facilitate a patient specific program through interdisciplinary collaboration will be reviewed in this course. This course will aim to empower occupational therapy practitioners in taking an active role in improving continence in their dependent assistance patients.