Valuing OT as a Profession

Question 1

Incorporated as member of the rehabilitation team and is crucial to the success of the care plan

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client

Question 2

Rehabilitation Team:

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• Physical Therapist
• Occupational Therapist
• Speech and Language Therapist
• Family and Client

Question 3

Team Interaction Model

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• multidisciplinary
• transdisciplinary
• interdisciplinary

Question 4

• provide OT services
• service provision may include direct, monitored, and consultative approaches

Answer 4

practitioner

Question 5

Develops and provides educational offerings or training related to occupational therapy to consumer, peer, and community individuals or groups

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Educator

Question 6

Provides OT students with opportunities to practice and carry out practitioner competencies

Answer 6

Fieldwork educator

Question 7

Manages the overall daily operation of occupational therapy services in a defined practice area

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Supervisor

Question 8

Manages department, program, services, or agency providing occupational therapy services

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Administrator

Question 9

Provides occupational therapy consultation to individuals, groups, or organizations

Answer 9

Consultant

Question 10

• Provides formal academic education for occupational therapy students
• Balance expected between teaching, service, and scholarly activities

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Faculty

Question 11

Performs scholarly work of the profession including examining, developing, refining, and evaluating the profession’s body of knowledge, theoretical base, and philosophical foundations

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Researcher

Question 12

Manages the occupational therapy educational program

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Program Director

Question 13

Manages student fieldwork program within the academic setting

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Fieldwork coordinator

Question 14

Partially or fully-employed individuals who provide occupational therapy services

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Entrepreneur

Question 15

Levels of role performance

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• entry-level
• intermediate
• advance level

Question 16

focuses on development of skills within closed supervision

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entry-level

Question 17

focuses on increased independence through routine or general

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intermediate

Question 18

focuses on refinement of specialized skills with minimal supervision

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advanced

Question 19

daily, direct contact at the site of work

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close supervision

Question 20

direct contact at least every 2 weeks at the site of work, with interim supervision occurring by other services

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routine supervision

Question 21

at least monthly direct contact, with supervision available as needed by other methods

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general

Question 22

provided only on a need basis; less than monthly

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minimal

Question 23

• 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

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Acute Care Medical Facility

Question 24

• Free-standing rehabilitation hospitals or in rehabilitation units of
  community or teaching hospitals
• Medically-stable patients and able to tolerate therapy
• Evaluation, intervention & documentation

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Physical Dysfunction Facility

Question 25

- Located in long – term care facilities - Evaluation, intervention & documentation

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Subacute Medical or Rehabilitation Facility

Question 26

- 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

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Acute Psychiatric Facility

Question 27

- Emphasis on community referral - Documentation

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Long-term Psychiatric Facility

Question 28

- 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

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Community-Based Setting

Question 28

- 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

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Early Intervention

Question 29

- 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

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School Systems

Question 30

- 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

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Work Oriented Rehabilitation Programs

Question 31

- 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

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Home Health Care

Question 32

- 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

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Community Mental Health

Question 33

- 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

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Adult Day Care

Question 34

- 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

Answer 34

Hospice Care