OT APPS 3 (Work Rehab) Flashcards
activities needed for engaging in
remunerative employment or volunteer
activities
work
● Current level of function (abilities and
limitations)
● Review of medical records, an interview,
musculoskeletal screening, evaluation of
physical performance, formation of
recommendation and generation of report
FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY
● Assess ability to work: physical, cognitive,
psychomotor, work skills
● Emotional stability, aptitude, job seeking
skills, intellectual ability, anong reax ni px pag
may nag-arise na issues sa work
work capacity
- Actual demands of work
- Activity analysis of work
- Which step ng work nahihirapan si px
Job demand analysis
● Function of specific body parts (strength,
posture, endurance, etc.)
PHYSICAL CAPACITY
Work evaluation categories EXCEPT
On-the-job evaluation
Situational assessment
Psychometric assessment
Job site analysis
Work samples- primary technique
Job site analysis
To determine whether an individual can return
to work after onset of a disability or whether a
person can benefit from a reasonable
accommodation to maintain employment.
JOB-SITE ANALYSIS
Frequent 10 lbs
Sedentary
Light
Medium
Heavy
Very heavy
Light
Occasional over 100 lbs
Sedentary
Light
Medium
Heavy
Very heavy
very heavy
constant neg
Sedentary
Light
Medium
Heavy
Very heavy
sedentary and light
Occasional 20-50 lbs
Sedentary
Light
Medium
Heavy
Very heavy
medium
constant 10-20
Sedentary
Light
Medium
Heavy
Very heavy
Heavy
-requires walking or standing to significant
degree, pushing and pulling of arm or leg
controls
- Requires working at a production rate pace
entailing the pushing or pulling materials even
though the weight of those materials is
negligible
light
Requires in excess of that heavy work
v. heavy
work involving sitting most of the time or brief
walking or standing
sedentary
Mike is working as a call center
agent. At his work it requires 10 lbs of force exertion
during ⅓ of his day. What level of work does Mike fall
in?
Sedentary
- General work
skills - Adolescence or
no skills yet
prevocational
Trainings in prevocational except:
Task skills
interactions skills
specific work skills
work habits
interests
NOTA
specific work skills
Person has to
develop his/her
work capacities to
a level of
competitive
employment in
order to fit in a
competitive
environment
vocational skills
- One discipline is
the service
provider - flexibility ,
strength,
movement and
endurance - Bottom-up
approach
work conditioning
- Competitive
employment - Employee in a
company: payroll
has
responsibilities - Focus: adaptation
to work demands and culture of work
open employment
- productivity, safety,
physical tolerance,
and work
behaviors - top-down approach
- Functional to
return to work is
the goal
work hardening
supported employment
sheltered workshops
After an accident, Damian wants to
go back to work as a factory worker. The company
required him to have a work evaluation focusing on his
skills and abilities to perform as a factory worker.
Which evaluation is needed by Damian from an
occupational therapist?
A. Functional capacity
B. Physical capacity
C. Work capacity
D. None of the above
work capacity
