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Career & Technical Training - Community College of Rhode Island

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<strong>Career</strong> & <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Training</strong><br />

Continuing Education for Massage Therapists<br />

Oncology Massage <strong>Training</strong> Program<br />

Enhance Your Massage Practice and Your Clients’ Lives<br />

This course is designed for licensed massage therapists in New England. Enhance your clinical<br />

skills by working with individuals in an oncology environment. Develop a better understanding <strong>of</strong><br />

the scope <strong>of</strong> the intrinsic factors involved with this population by working directly with cancer<br />

patients who are undergoing treatment. Integrate massage skills with protocols specific to pressure<br />

adjustments, sites to avoid and client positioning. Aspects <strong>of</strong> physiological changes during the<br />

massage treatment will be outlined in steps so therapists can work safely and skillfully with this<br />

population.<br />

Learning objectives:<br />

• Identify the role <strong>of</strong> the massage therapist in a clinical setting.<br />

• Demonstrate appropriate assessment skills when treating patients.<br />

• Identify various cancer treatment methods.<br />

• Describe the importance <strong>of</strong> patient positioning and critical thinking, as it relates to patient care.<br />

• Describe lymphedema protocols.<br />

• Demonstrate the skills for charting patient care notes.<br />

• Identify research by reviewing the most recent literature.<br />

Earn 40 continuing education hours in a 10-week internship in Spring 2013 at<br />

Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, Mass.<br />

Thursdays, 8 a.m. to noon, Feb 14 - Apr 25, 2013<br />

Registration deadline: Dec 21, 2012<br />

$595, plus a $25 application fee<br />

(the price will increase to $695, plus a $25 application fee after the Dec 21 deadline)<br />

For more information on this program, visit us online at<br />

www.ccri.edu/cwce/massage/.<br />

12 Center for Workforce and <strong>Community</strong> Education www.ccri.edu/cwce

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