Work industry Flashcards
Scope of Practice
1
- OT has hx of utilizing work for therapeutic purposes
- Vital component of most adults’ lives
Scope of practice
2
return to work issues need to be addressed as part of a treatment plan
Arenas for an OT un Work and Industry Practice
Onsite - work site
Out-patient rehab
Work hardening/conditioning program
Private Practice/Consulting
Onsite-Work site
employed by employer
OT’s part of employee health
Contractors pay feee per service
Contractor pay fee per service
Can be part of private practice or hospital based practice
Outpatient Rehab
Hand Clinic
General Outpatient OT
Occupational Health Program
History of scope of practice
George Barton
Eleanor Clark Slagle
Social Security Act of 1935
George Barton
Father of OT
Estabilished Consolation House in 1914
Enabled convalescents to use occupation to return to productive living
Eleanor Clark Slagle
Founder of OT
Employed at Hull House
Training persons with mental and physical disabilities to work
Produced baskets, toys, rugs and cabinets
Got paid for their services
Social security act of 1935
1.
Return to remunerative (paid) occupation was included in definition of rehabilitation
Social security act of 1935
2.
First attempt to provide vocational rehabilitation to the physically handicapped in the community
Industrial therapy 1937
Also called as employment
Work related activities as treatment modalities
Barden-LaFollette Act
Vocational Rehabilitation Act 1943
Vocational Rehabilitation Act 1943
Allowed coverage for more services
Established the office of vocational rehab
Rosenberg and Wellerson
Published article on TOWER