Midterm Flashcards
What are the key competencies for Physiotherapy?
Expert Communicator Collaborator Advocate Scholarly Practitioner Professional Manager
What are the criteria for professional status?
Grounded in theory and research Relevant to basic social values University level extensive training Autonomy Motivation, commitment Sense of community w/in practice Code of ethics National organization and culture. Sanction by the community
What are some OT/PT practice domains?
Home care Orthopaedics Medicine ER Neurology Health promotion and wellness Cardio-respiratory Oncology Sports Medicine Mental Health Vocational Rheumatology Burns/plastics Amputees Disability management Developmental Paediatrics Geriatrics Neonatology TBI Teaching Research
What is the starting salary for OT? PT?
Echelon 1
- 69
- 56
Echelon 3 (masters degree)
- 83
- 71
What is part of the Profile of Practice of OT in Canada (2012)
Professional Practice Manager Change Agent Collaborator Scholarly Practitioner Communicator
Core Competency of an OT is enabling occupation.
What is a change agent?
As a change agent, OT responsibly use their expertise and influence to advance occupation, occupational performance and occupational engagement.
- Advocate
- Work for population and community change
- Collaborate
What is important to being a successful change agent?
Believe that change is possible. Work collaboratively with institutional staff. Work collaboratively with management. Draw on evidence. Build team motivation.
What are the three types of change agents?
Change generators: Identify a need and for example develop a program.
Change resistors: Someone who goes against change. (Opposition is good such as resisting budget cuts).
Change recipients: Help adopt changes suggested by others.
What are characteristics of a change agent?
Reflective in practice. High self-efficacy Stronger internal locus of control Optimistic Adaptable Visionary
What is the definition of an advocate?
Its responsibly use their knowledge and expertise to promote the health and well-being of individual clients, communities, populations and the profession.
What are some examples of advocacy for CAOT and CPA?
CAOT: Elder abuse, seniors caring for seniors.
CPA: 15 position statements. Building national outcomes database. The value of PT. Health care for Aboriginal communities. Pain management and opioid crisis.
Both have strategic partnerships.
What is global health?
Global health is an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants and solutions… and is a synthesis of population based prevention with individual level clinical care.
- Broader level (population) trends in health care
- Equal access and equity to health care
Global health is “a collection of problems which turn on the quest for equity” or the quest for health equity.
Define Disability
A complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction btwn features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives.
ICF
Impairments
Activity limitations
Participation Restriction
WHO:
An outcome of the interaction between a person with an impairment and the environmental and attitudinal barriers that he/she faces
Disability Statistics from WHO
1 billion people w/ disability (world’s largest minority)
785 million adults and 95 million children
15% of the global population
80% developing countries
Chronic diseases account for 2/3 of years lived w/ disability in low and middle income countries.
What is the link between disability and poverty?
50% of disability is preventable and linked to poverty.
There is a reciprocal relationship between disability and poverty. People are disabled because they are poor (lack of access to services…), but people are also poor because they are disabled (increase cost of living due to disability.
The lower the income of the country (by quintile) the higher the percentage of people w/ disabilities.
What does rehabilitation as a health strategy mean?
We think of rehabilitation professions and institutions. Rehabilitation as a health strategy aims to enable people with health conditions experiencing or likely to experience disability to achieve and maintain optimal functioning in interaction w/ the environment.
(i.e. there is palliative, supportive, preventative, so rehabilitation is another strategy)
What are some ways of providing access to rehab services in other countries?
Capacity building: training OT/PTs in other countries.
McGill SPOT: Handicap International training rehabilitation professionals in HAITI where there is a lot of need, but not a lot of resources i.e. 2 PTs and 1 OT or something like that.
What are some examples of providing access to assistive devices?
Only 10-15% of people with disabilities can access assistive devices in the developing world.
Mold for chairs for children with disabilities.
What is community-based rehabilitation?
Aims to promote rehabilitation, poverty reduction, equalization of opportunities and social inclusion of all people with disabilities through the combined effort of people with disabilities themselves, their families, organizations and communities and the relevant governmental and non-governmental health, education, vocational, social and other services.
Much more integrated approach
Actively involves people with disabilities.
What is a health care system?
WHO:
A good health system delivers quality services to all people, when and where they need them. The exact configuration of services varies from country to country, but in all cases requires a robust financing mechanism, well-trained and adequately paid work force, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies; well maintained facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicine and technologies.
What are some controversies surrounding health care systems?
Who should pay
Who should be paid (in the public system)
How much should they be paid
Who should do what? Reserved acts
How should they be regulated
Where should resources be allocated (prevention/promotion vs treatment debate).
History of Healthcare in Canada: 1900-1945
Prior to 1940 there was limited health care legislation in Can
Health care concerns were considered private and local matters
Families and communities were responsible
History of Healthcare in Canada: 1945-1960
The development of hospital insurance in CAN:
1946: Saskatchewan Hospital Service Plan
Introduced by a social democratic government (Tommy douglas)
Only hospital services at first, but for everyone
History of Healthcare in Canada: 1957
Hospital Insurance for All
Canadian House of Commons unanimously passed the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act
Federal-provincial cost-sharing program for hospital care (50% fed/50% province)
By the end of 1961 every province in CAN had adopted a public hospital insurance plan.