6 PRODUCTIVITY Flashcards
PRODUCTIVITY INCLUDES
Vocational activities.
Home management.
Care of others.
Educational activities.
WORK
Involves ability to carry out activities society considers to be ‘productive’.
Involves ability to carry out activities society considers to be ‘productive’.
At a paying job, at home, leisure activities, in schools, and communities.
DEVELOPMENTAL VARIAITON
For children, play is their work…then eventually school.
For adults, much of their time is spent in work activities.
PAID EMPLOYMENT
Highly valued.
One of the most important social roles.
PAID EMPLOYMENT FULFILLS
Financial achievement or security.
A sense of competence and accomplishment.
Socialization and status within society.
Self respect.
Identity.
A sense of meaning and purpose.
Pleasure and gratification.
PAID EMPLOYMENT IMPACTED BY
Physical Injury.
Mental disorder / medical condition.
Developmental / behavioural disability.
Repetitive strain disorder.
Aging.
Social environment.
Physical environment.
FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT WORK
Mourn the loss of opportunity.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
A process that enables people with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive and emotional impairments or health conditions to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining or returning to employment or other useful occupation.
OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION
Ergonomic oversite, injury prevention.
Job demand analysis (JDA).
Prework screen development (PWS).
Vocational evaluations.
Functional capacity evaluations (FCE).
Workstation evaluations and associated modified-duty activity.
Work hardening and work conditioning.
Transition services from school to work.
ERGONOMICS
Applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that they can work safely.
Engineering controls. (fail safe, all stop button)
Work practice controls. (work manual)
Administrative controls. (looking at risk factors, putting in safety measures)
JOB DEMAND ANALYSIS
Prework Screening.
Vocational Evaluation.
Functional Capacity Evaluation.
WORKSITE EVALUATION
Name of the requestor of the evaluation.
Name of the employee.
Injury or reason for request.
Names of all attendees and their titles.
Identified challenges to safe work performance and the associated recommendations/accommodations.
Recommended resources to help the recommendations be implemented.
WORK IS DIVIDED INTO (6)
- Work behaviour.
- Work skills.
- Work aptitudes.
- Work hardening.
- Work conditioning.
- Work adjustment.
- WORK BEHAVIOUR
Include the abilities to:
Cooperate.
Attend to a task.
Make decisions.
Be motivated to do tasks.
Attend appointments or be able to follow a scheduled time to attend a specific place.
Accept supervision.
Follow established norms for dress and appearance.
Be punctual, responsible and organized.
Produce as required.
- WORK SKILLS
Vocational skills:
The skills required to do a specific job.
Work skills involves:
Physical skills needed to do the job.
How one relates to information, people and things.
What general / specific education is required.
- WORK APTITUDES
Gross motor coordination.
Manual dexterity/fine motor coordination.
General intelligence.
Ability to understand and use numbers.
Written and verbal communication.
- WORK CONDITIONING
The work-related physical conditioning:
Strength.
Endurance.
Flexibility.
Coordination.
Aerobic fitness.
- WORK HARDENING
Multidisciplinary, graded return to work program.
Goal: achieve full capacity of worker to meet job demands.
Work simulation activities.
Education related to good ergonomic movement patterns.
Psychosocial (affective) interventions that address topics such as stress.
- WORK ADJUSTMENT
Help people who have been unemployed or injured workers who cannot return to their former jobs.
Designed to assist individuals to:
Understand the meaning, value and demands of work.
Modify or develop attitudes, personal characteristics, and work behaviors.
Attain a functional level of vocational adjustment.
SERVICE PROVISION PROCESS
- Referral.
- Screening.
- Interest assessment.
- Evaluation.
- Program implementation.
- REFERRAL
Self refer, physician, other providers, WCB, insurer.
- SCREENING
Is client appropriate.
- INTEREST ASSESSMENT
Explore and identify objectives.
- EVALUATION
Physical: FG, ROM, strength, postural control, FM coordination (dexterity).
Cognitive: attention, initiation/termination.
Affective: social conduct, time management.
Work skills and tolerances.
Work habits and interpersonal skills.
Work related capacity.
Standardized tests.
