OT and PT Collaboration

Earn 1 hour of continuing education by joining OT Potential after taking this course.

Course Description

OTs and PTs compete in many ways. We can be found competing over:

• Patient time
• Who gets to bill which code on which day
• Recognition 
• And scope of practice

But, as looming outside forces like AI and decreasing reimbursement rates threaten our professions, it is critical to change our postures toward interprofessional collaboration. 

And, there is no PT I would rather talk about this with than Rebeca Segraves. Rebeca has hard won insight as she has sought to embed our professions more fully into maternal healthcare. 

In this one hour live webinar and podcast course, we’ll talk about the latest research on interprofessional collaboration, and what this can look like on the individual, systems and national level.

Learning Objectives

1. You will recognize new opportunities at the level of facility management for OT and PTs to collaborate on new programs. 

2. You will be able to identify new opportunities for OTs and PTs to collaborate on reimbursement change.

Agenda

Intro (5 minutes)

Discussion (40 minutes)

1. Rebeca, how did you become interested in OT and PT collaboration in maternal health? 
2. Sarah, what does the recent research share about the barriers and opportunities for OT and PT and collaboration? 
3. We recently put together a new post on OT, PT, and SLP collaboration, what surprised you? 
4. OT and PT have recently been dealt a big reimbursement blow. How did this happen and how do we move forward in advocating together? 
5. Part of proving our value is aggregating our outcomes in a smart way, what are new opportunities for this to happen? 
6. How can we be aggregating our best practice data so that we can deliver consistent quality care? 
7. Rebeca, what have you learned from launching a new OT and PT initiative? How do we move the needle with management? 
8. Lastly, with all this in mind, how can we show up to work differently as colleagues?

Live Q&A (10 min)

Closing (5 min)

Supporting Research and Journal Articles

• Speech-language pathologist, physical therapist, and occupational therapist experiences of interprofessional collaborations
• Interprofessional co-treatment practices in the allied health professions: a scoping review
• Occupational therapy practitioners’ experiences with interprofessional collaborative practice

Target Audience/Educational Level

Our target audience is occupational therapy practitioners who are looking to learn about OT and PT Collaboration. The educational level is introductory.

Financial and Non-financial Disclosures

It is the policy of OT Potential to disclose any financial and non-financial interest the provider or instructor may have in a product or service mentioned during an activity. This is to ensure that the audience is made aware of any bias of the speaker.

We here at OT Potential have no financial stake in this topic.

Speakers

Rebeca Segraves, PT, DPT, WCS, CLT

I am a Physical Therapist and Women’s Health Advocate who believes that everyone deserves access to an early and successful recovery after birth, pelvic surgery, and mastectomy.

Jenna Segraves and I founded Enhanced Recovery After Delivery™ (ERAD), an obstetrics clinical pathway that maximizes mental and physical function during pregnancy and immediately postpartum.

ERAD™ prepares rehabilitation professionals to prioritize function as a Perinatal Health Specialist. The Perinatal Health Specialist is the only certification in the world that expands access to Occupational and Physical Therapy in the hospital and home during pregnancy and immediately after birth.

Sarah Lyon, OTR/L

Sarah’s passion is helping fellow OT practitioners translate evidence into daily practice. Sarah earned her BA in religion from St. Olaf College, then earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from New York University in 2011.

Since then, she’s worked in numerous facilities, including a critical access hospital, an acute trauma hospital, and a state inpatient psychiatric hospital. Sarah is the founder/owner of OT Potential. Read more about OT Potential here.

This course was designed to meet your continuing education requirements

We designed the courses in the Club to meet the requirements for “online” and “independent/self-study” courses. To verify the requirements from your specific state (within the US), check out our post, OT Continuing Education Requirements. If you are outside of the United States and have questions, please contact us.

We are proud to be an AOTA Approved Provider and to meet the requirements for your NBCOT renewal.

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