Lifespan Development
Areas of Practice
OT Process/Ther Relationships
Service Management
Clinical Reasoning
100
Lacey learns that if she pushes a modified switch next to her hand on her wheelchair, her favorite song will play on her radio.
What is Cause and Effect
100
Rose fell and believes she broke her hip. She calls 9-1-1 and is likely rushed to this type of hospital
What is Acute Care Hospital
100
An assessment of whether a client will benefit from OT services.
What is a screen
100
Following this type of precautions, it is necessary for OT practitioners to wash their hands before and after working with each of their clients and treating all bodily fluids as infectious.
What are Standard Precautions
100
The type of reasoning that uses stories to understand clients.
What is Narrative Reasoning
200
The period of development that represents a time of growth and refinement of skills, including more coordination and strength?
What is Childhood
200
Helen’s family has been caring for her at home however the responsibility has become too great and they are no longer able to provide her with the care she needs at home. This type of facility is most appropriate for Helen who is expected to continue to decline because of her chronic conditions.
What is Long-Term Care
200
An OTA can contribute to a designated portion of the evaluation process as assigned by the OT after this has been established.
What is Service Competency
200
Cleaning supplies, flammables, and toxic chemicals should be stored in these.
What is a designated locked cabinet
200
The type of reasoning that involves consideration of how the client will get to therapy at an outpatient clinic.
What is Pragmatic Reasoning
300
The period of development focused on selecting and establishing a career, building job-related skills and reputation, and finding a romantic relationship in order to start a family; otherwise known as a time of achievement.
What is Adulthood
300
Providing OT in a mental health day treatment center for adults with mental illness involves this sphere of practice.
What is the Psychological Sphere
300
If a test is a true measure of what it claims, it is said to be this.
What is valid
300
This is a type of documentation used in the school setting by a multidisciplinary team to aid in the success of children with special needs.
What is an Individualized Education Plan
300
At this stage of reasoning, practitioners use “intuition” and experience to guide intervention
What is Expert
400
You are playing with Shelley, a 10 month old who has been identified as having developmental delays. When you take her favorite toy from her and cover it up with a box in front of her, she cries and makes no attempt to find the toy.
What is Object Permanence
400
The sphere of practice described when OT provides treatment in a women’s shelter for victims of domestic violence teaching employment skills, finances/budgeting and interview skills.
What is the Sociological Sphere
400
This type of intervention approach involves helping a client return to work by learning to take public transportation instead of driving his own car following a brain injury.
What is Modify
400
This is an accreditation body that helps health care organizations meet prescribed standards in acute care hospitals and long term care facilities.
What is The Joint Commission
400
The frames of reference including neurodevelopmental treatment and sensory integration are closely linked to this theory involving the CNS.
What is neuroplasticity
500
A result of not allowing older adults to make decisions and stay active in their lives.
What is Learned Helplessness
500
When Bob is admitted to the acute care hospital after having chest pain and is diagnosed with a heart attack, Medicare agreed to pay a predetermined fixed fee based on these
What is Diagnostic Related Groups
500
The OT just completed his evaluation of a new client at a SNF and stated he would come back in 10 minutes to bring him a more comfortable wheelchair cushion to reduce pain. The OT forgot and did not return with the cushion. The issue most compromised is this.
What is trust
500
The agency that developed Standard Precautions for disease prevention in healthcare.
What is the Centers for Disease Control
500
The step that involves the OT practitioner organizing the data gathered and making tentative assumptions which serve as the basis for therapeutic action.
What is hypothesis generation
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