Privilege of Care Flashcards
Privilege of care relates to
advocacy, leadership, and communication
its not always about how we are doing technically, its about how
we care and give ourself to patients and their families
Research has shown that patients and caregivers determine level of satisfaction with HC not tied to technical quality, rather on
quality of communication
patients and families are partners in care because they are involved in
decision-making, plan of care, goals, and outcomes
OT is ____ and ____ centered care
patient and family
forms of partnership
Patient assessment and in planning care and treatment
Organizational advisory roles
Hiring, educating and evaluating of clinicians
our knowledge is not
common knowledge
We need to watch out
terminology, mannerisms which include verbal and nonverbal and eye contact
we need to treat people like ___ and not just patients
people
not every case is the same so we must use
evidence based practice theories
we must allow people to
try, even if they fail or cannot do it as well as they used to
OT doesn’t always have to be based on
protocol because its real life that we are dealing with
main points as caregivers
Be truthful
Don’t yank
Share some of yourself
Skills and strengths caregivers didn’t know they had
Not out of duty or responsibility but from love
Treat patients with dignity
we need to always need to
put ourselves into their shoes and treat them how we want to be treated
Being an OT is not about ourself any more, its about
the patient
