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Making the Most Out of Your Long-term Cancer Hospitalization

August 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
Inspire your patients to engage in OT during long-term hospital stays with this handout. Instead of discharging these patients from occupational therapy care, there is great opportunity to provide meaningful intervention and connection during a lengthy hospital stay. OT intervention can promote dignity during a very challenging time.
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Spinal Surgery and Occupational Therapy

May 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout provides information about recovery from spinal surgery through an OT perspective. It covers pre-surgery considerations, spinal precautions, and safe completion of various ADLs.
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Cognitive Strategies Framework for Cleaning and Home Organization

April 30, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
This is a framework for cognitive strategies while referencing a functional spring cleaning and home organization checklist to improve independence and accuracy for patients with cognitive communication deficits that impact attention, organization, problem-solving, and executive function tasks.
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Gift Card Calculations

December 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This cognitive-linguistic task provides an opportunity for problem solving by using gift cards to make decisions about a coffee shop menu and ordering a book.
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Finding Medication Box Errors Set #3

December 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
The third in our series of locating med box errors, this activity challenges people to spot missing/extra pills given a set of prescription labels and pill shapes/colors.
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Menstrual Hygiene Management

November 30, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource covers considerations and strategies for addressing this important but often overlooked ADL.
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Medication Safety

November 30, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource addresses safety with medication management. There are two methods for using this activity. One method directly pairs with the Therapy Insights Medication Management Kit (Version 2). The other option is a worksheet for those without the kit. The entire activity can be completed with or without the kit.
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Assigning Jobs as Part of Rehab Therapy

October 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource discusses the benefits of using assigned jobs during an individual’s rehab stay and gives examples of jobs that work well in the clinic.
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Daily Visual Schedule Templates

September 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
These templates allow patients to create a personal visual schedule for themselves. They can be daily reminders of what needs to be done or help with motivation for everyday tasks.
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