Administration and organization of OT (Lori) Flashcards
Servant Leadership:
Servant first
* Natural feeling that one wants to serve
* Do those served grow as persons?
* Inner drive to serve in a way consistent with ones
own values and ethics
* Focus on building leadership capacity for all,
thereby enhancing sustainable leadership for the
future
* Work with others collaboratively as opposed to
hierarchical structure
CHARACTERISTICS OF SERVANT
LEADERS:
- Listening for deeper understanding combined with
reflection - Empathy
- Healing
- Awareness
- Persuasion
- Conceptualization
- Foresight (based on past, present and future)
- Stewardship (commitment to serve others)
- Commitment to growth of others
- Building community
TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP:
- Pragmatic give and take process
- Do good work, get promoted
- Rewarding those that are high performers
- Viewed as able to deliver outcomes based on
brokering skills
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP:
- Connecting with staff in a way that heightens
motivation - Attending to their needs
- Engaging them as team members
- Perceived by others as a strong role model whom
others want to emulate - Deeply respected and trusted
- Inspires team spirit through shared vision
- Listens carefully and provides individualized
consideration - Help staff to grow through supportive feedback
LEADERSHIP COHERENCE:
- Leadership that is guided by core values that
influence leadership style - Leadership behaviors are guided by core values
- What leaders do to sustain their leadership
reinforces their performance and performance in
turn reinforces core values
LEADERSHIP SUSTAINABILITY AS AN ELEMENT OF LEADERSHIP COHERENCE:
- Leadership sustainability refers to “self care” as a
means of building capacity at the organizational
level and expanding leadership influence - Self Care
- Staying physically fit
- Managing emotions to one’s advantage
- Valuing counsel
- Creating space to maintain clarity and perspective
- Gaining satisfaction on challenges and results of ones work
- Seeking intellectual stimulation
- Welcoming inspiration through a higher power
PERSPECTIVES:
- Management
* Guiding an organization by planning, organizing, directing
and controlling - Planning
* Short and long term goals and action plans related to
organization’s mission
* Determining resource needs (staffing etc) - Organizing
* Designing work loads
* Determining lines of authority and communication
* Developing and managing patterns of coordination
PERSPECTIVES CONTINUED:
- Directing
* Providing guidance and oversight so that activities are goal-
oriented and focused on desired outcomes
* Mentoring and coaching
* Disciplinary activities - Controlling
* Measuring performance against expectations
* Guiding staff to overcome obstacles to achieve outcomes
* Control mechanisms
* Measure that consistently monitors output – failures may require a
change to the work process - Leadership
* Creating organizational change that allows individual values,
vision, and ethics to integrate into the culture of a community in
order to achieve sustainable change - Supervision
* Control and directing work in a way that promotes improved
performance and better outcomes - Value Based Leadership
* Values of all individuals create an organization code of standards
and ethics that enables individuals to make independent decisions
that align with the organizations values
* Core values of an organization are used as directing principles that
shape behavior and actions of members of the organization.
Strategic Planning:
- Is used to plan for long term goals and requires
developing strategies for attainment versus day-to-day
management used for short term goals - Time for strategic management is affected by high
productivity needs - Guided by mission statement
Managing vs Leading:
- Managing
- Set Goal
- Focus on procedures
- Direct and control
- Maintain the status quo
- Maintain existing skills
- Leaders
- Create vision
- Inspire and empower
- Challenge the process
- Lifelong leadership
development - Focus on relationships
Management + Leadership =
Transformational Leadership
Mission Statements:
“The mission is a description, typically concise and carefully
crafted, that defines the basic purpose or focus of the
organization or agency.”
Usually remain stable overtime and address:
* Why organization exists
* What functions they perform
* Primary beneficiaries
* How organization goes about filling function
* Help prioritize work and use of resources
Vision:
- The aspiration or ideal state desired of the organization.
- Centennial Vision “We envision that occupational therapy
is a powerful, widely recognized, science-driven, and
evidence-base profession with a globally connected and
diverse workforce meeting society’s occupational needs” - Vision 2025
- “Occupational therapy maximized health, well-being, and
quality of life for all people, populations, and communities
through effective solutions that facilitate participation in
everyday living” (AOTA 2016)
Maryland State Board of OT Practice:
*Licensing authority of Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapist
Assistants in the State of Maryland.
* Mandated to regulate the practice of Occupational Therapy in Maryland
* The program is 100% special funded. (from licensing fees)
* The Board consists of 7 members appointed by the Governor with the advice
of the Secretary and the Senate.
* 4 members: OT
* 1 member : OTA
* 2 members: represent the public.
Requirements for Obtaining a
License:
- GRADUATE FROM AN ACCREDITED OT OR OTA EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM. - COMPLETE YOUR FIELDWORK REQUIREMENTS.
- APPLY FOR AND PASS THE NBCOT® CERTIFICATION
EXAMINATION. - APPLY FOR A LICENSE AND PAY A FEE FOR EACH
STATE/JURISDICTION IN WHICH YOU WISH TO PRACTICE OR
HOLD A LICENSE.
OTA Supervision:
*Direct supervision-face to face, modeling, co-
treating, teaching, instruction
* Indirect-phone, written, electronic
Periodic supervision by a licensed OT:
1) once every 10th visit
2) once every 30 day calendar period. Can include meetings, chart reviews, observation of treatment or client report.
OTA Role delineation
- selects, implements, and makes modifications to
therapeutic interventions - contributes to the modification of the intervention plan
- contributes to the transition or discontinuation plan
- contributes to evaluating the safety and effectiveness
of OT services - other things that both OT and OTA does together
Strategic Planning:
Strategic planning involves setting goals and developing a strategy to meet those goals
Strategic Planning Process:
1. Mission and vision development / review
2. SWOT analysis
3. Strategic scenario development
4. Scenario selection
5. Strategic goals formulation and review
6. Strategies identified
7. Plan evaluation
8. Plan review / revision
Stakeholders External:
Patients, clients, other service providers, government
agencies, payers, and community members or organizations
Stakeholders Internal:
Employees, administrators and managers, staff members,
and organization’s owners or board of directors