Valuing OT as a Profession Flashcards
Incorporated as member of the rehabilitation team and is crucial to the success of the care plan
client
Rehabilitation Team:
- Physical Therapist
- Occupational Therapist
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Family and Client
Team Interaction Model
- multidisciplinary
- transdisciplinary
- interdisciplinary
- provide OT services
- service provision may include direct, monitored, and consultative approaches
practitioner
Develops and provides educational offerings or training related to occupational therapy to consumer, peer, and community individuals or groups
Educator
Provides OT students with opportunities to practice and carry out practitioner competencies
Fieldwork educator
Manages the overall daily operation of occupational therapy services in a defined practice area
Supervisor
Manages department, program, services, or agency providing occupational therapy services
Administrator
Provides occupational therapy consultation to individuals, groups, or organizations
Consultant
- Provides formal academic education for occupational therapy students
- Balance expected between teaching, service, and scholarly activities
Faculty
Performs scholarly work of the profession including examining, developing, refining, and evaluating the profession’s body of knowledge, theoretical base, and philosophical foundations
Researcher
Manages the occupational therapy educational program
Program Director
Manages student fieldwork program within the academic setting
Fieldwork coordinator
Partially or fully-employed individuals who provide occupational therapy services
Entrepreneur
Levels of role performance
- entry-level
- intermediate
- advance level
focuses on development of skills within closed supervision
entry-level
focuses on increased independence through routine or general
intermediate
focuses on refinement of specialized skills with minimal supervision
advanced
daily, direct contact at the site of work
close supervision
direct contact at least every 2 weeks at the site of work, with interim supervision occurring by other services
routine supervision
at least monthly direct contact, with supervision available as needed by other methods
general
provided only on a need basis; less than monthly
minimal
- Community and teaching hospitals
- Entered for conditions that require the highly skilled care of doctors, nurses & allied health professionals
- Laboratory, x-ray & other diagnostic and treatment services
- Patients are discharged to homes or other less acute settings as quickly as possible
Acute Care Medical Facility
- Free-standing rehabilitation hospitals or in rehabilitation units of
community or teaching hospitals - Medically-stable patients and able to tolerate therapy
- Evaluation, intervention & documentation
Physical Dysfunction Facility
- Located in long – term care facilities
- Evaluation, intervention & documentation
Subacute Medical or Rehabilitation Facility
- Typical length of stay: 7 – 15 days
- Most frequent goal: crisis stabilization
- Group & individual treatment
- Education on role of medications
- Stress management
- Use of community supports
- Life skills training
- Discharge planning begins immediately *
- Documentation
Acute Psychiatric Facility
- Emphasis on community referral
- Documentation
Long-term Psychiatric Facility
- Based on models other than a medical model
- Variety of intervention approaches
1. Establishing or restoring skills
2. Altering or finding a different setting
3. Adapting task demands or contexts
4. Preventing additional problems
5. Creating circumstances that enhance performance
Community-Based Setting
- Address developmental, educational & social needs of children who have disability or developmental delay
- Family-centered
- TEAM: educator, SLP, PT, OT, social worker &
family members - OT: promote development & function for typical play and self- care skills
Early Intervention
- Determine if student has disability that interferes with learning
- IEP
- Address learning needs in an environment most typical for all students at that age
- TEAM: teachers, parents, SLP, OT, psychologist & guidance counselor
- OT: enhance skills that provide a foundation for learning or suggest a particular classroom or learning style that would enable student to
learn optimally
School Systems
- Enable people who have been injured to return to the work force
- OT: goals relate specifically to person’s job & injury or diagnosis
- Reconditioning, controlling symptoms, stress management & education for injury prevention
- TEAM: physician, PT, OT (employment supervisor)
- OT services: evaluation of physical capacity & functional limitations, graded
work simulation & work adaptations or assistive devices as well as
psychosocial issues
Work Oriented Rehabilitation Programs
- Promote independent functioning to enable people to live at home
- Blends the medical & family-centered models
- Serves those who need support or assistance in performing self- care, home-making or leisure tasks independently & safely
- TEAM: nursing personnel, physician, PT, OT, SLP, social worker & home health aide
- OT: promote the person’s occupational roles at home by facilitating self-care, household tasks and leisure activities
Home Health Care
- support people in the community with chronic psychiatric illnesses
- TEAM: psychiatrist, psychiatric nurses, rehabilitation worker, social worker, OT & other therapists providing art, music & movement therapy
- OT: teach & promote basic living skills for work, self-care & leisure
Community Mental Health
- Provides meaningful, structured activities, assisting people with physical or cognitive disabilities to remain living at home
- CVA, RA, PD, MS & senile dementia – alzheimer’s type
- Goal: improve or maintain functional abilities & prevent additional losses; provide respite for primary care givers
- TEAM: nurses, nurse aides, social worker, PT & OT, therapeutic recreation specialists & paraprofessionals & aides
- OT: focus on person’s ability to engage in self-care and leisure activities while maintaining or enhancing perceptual, motor, cognitive & psychological skills
Adult Day Care
- Provide care to enhance the quality of life for people who are dying & for their families
- Goals: controlling pain, providing health care services, helping clients to control their lives as much as possible until their death
- Work closely with caregivers, helping them with the practical aspects of providing care to a terminally ill person, and with the emotional stress the illness and his death entails
- TEAM: physician, nurse, social worker, PT, OT or respiratory therapist
Hospice Care
