Course overview
To advance knowledge and skills to assess and design comprehensive conservative management plans for complex prolapse presentations, including advanced prescription of support pessaries, understand outcome measurement and clinical reasoning to safely use pessaries and understand the role of non-conservative management of pelvic organ prolapse in overall patient care.
Course learning outcomes
- Use clinical reasoning and an evidence-based approach to assess, design and progress a comprehensive management program, including pessaries, pelvic floor muscle training, general exercise and lifestyle advice, for a range of presentations of pelvic organ prolapse.
- Articulate the evidence-based role and scope of physiotherapy management in relation to prolapse surgery and the multidisciplinary health care team.
- Demonstrate safe and effective practical skills for pelvic organ prolapse, including fitting select pessaries and teaching patient 'self-care'.
- Apply principles of informed consent and infection control with all procedures in line with contemporary health care practice.
- Demonstrate best-practice principles of a patient-centered approach to communication and behaviour change, maximising adherence to conservative management for patients, including those with complex biopsychosocial presentations.
- Choose and apply appropriate outcome measures to assess the response to the conservative management of pelvic organ prolapse.
- Explain organisational management, safety and risk management, sufficient for providing pessary care with a range of pessary types and including pessary fitting aids, in a variety of health care settings.
Availability
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 60687
Section 01OL
Size 20
Available 20
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