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Acute Occupational Therapy Services at SALHN
Acute Occupational Therapy Services at SALHN provides both inpatient and outpatient services.
Occupational Therapists work closely with medical, nursing and other allied health staff to assist patients who have had a functional change as a result of an illness or injury, impacting on their ability to participate in daily living activities.
Occupational Therapists in the inpatient setting, work to assist patients to improve or compensate for their functional deficits and enable safe discharge. Services include assessment and treatment of physical, neurological, cognitive, and perceptual deficits, education to improve self-management, determination of supports required to support function on discharge and provision of aids and equipment to assist independence.
In the outpatient setting, Occupational Therapy provides a Hand Therapy service, together with Physiotherapists, to provide hand therapy assessment and intervention to patients with acute trauma or chronic conditions of the hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder. For further details re outpatient Hand Therapy please see the link below.
Inpatient services include:
- Assessment and intervention to improve physical, neurological, cognitive or perceptual changes resulting from illness/injury to enable return to daily living activities.
- Splint fabrication and intervention for acute upper limb injury
- Prescription of aids, equipment and home modifications to support independence and safety
- Seating, posture and pressure injury management to increase function and independence
- Determination of services/supports required to support function on discharge including for example NDIS and My Aged Care.
Outpatient services include:
- Hand Therapy Services at SALHN
Contact details
Manager Occupational Therapist - Nicole Jamieson
Location: Northern entrance corridor
Telephone: 7326 3300
Fax: 7326 3303