ETHICS
To respect the right of the individual to self determination, privacy, confidentiality, and consent
An Occupational Therapist or Occupational Therapy Assistant
The process of determining if a client requires the skilled services of an occupational therapy practitioner. It helps identify changes in functional status such as improvements of declines in physical or cognitive abilities
Leads by exception, employees are aware of what the expectations are and what will happen if they are not met.
What is a transactional leader
Using theory and research to substantiate the approaches used in practice.
What is Evidence-based practice
Serves the public interest by supporting occupational therapy research (education), and increasing public understanding of the important relationship between everyday activities (occupations) and health.
What is American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF)
Demonstration of” a concern for the well-being and safety of the recipients of their services”
What is Beneficence
The process of governing, directing, or controlling
What is a Manager
Methods used for data collection that have established reliability and validity.
What is Standardized Assessments
Inspires, energizes, and stimulates employees
What is a transformational leader
Assessing various aspects of the client and his/her contexts
What is Occupational Performance Analysis
The national professional association established in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of occupational therapy and to improve the quality of occupational therapy services
What is American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
Entity that has legal jurisdiction over occupational therapy practitioners
What is State Regulatory Boards
An individual’s actual performance in a specific situation refers to one’s capacity to perform job responsibilities
What is Competency
Programs that facilitate the learning of new skills in attempt to “restore” the client’s previous abilities.
What is Restorative Programs
An independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States
What is Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
Understanding and making decisions about intervention approaches when there are resulting ethical considerations and conflicts
What is Ethical reasoning
“a not-for-profit credentialling agency that provides certification for the occupational therapy profession”
What is the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy
The study of standards of conduct and moral judgment
What is Ethics
The process of overseeing the work of others. This often includes the acknowledgement of responsibility for those individuals who are under one’s care.
Programs that are often developed for clients who have been discharged from therapy but will remain in a skilled nursing facility. The programs facilitate skills that are present but no utilized unless compensations or adaptation are provided.
What is Functional Maintenance Programs
Typical occupational therapy manager functions at what level in a health care organization
What is the Middle Manager
The comprehensive cognitive process that practitioners use to make decisions about intervention based on the judgments made about the person receiving the therapy
Clinical reasoning
AOTA’s online community
What is OT Connections
“Promote fairness and objectivity in the provision of occupational therapy services”
What is Justice
The range of professional duties and abilities as defined by the profession’s guidelines regulatory bodies, and licensure statutes and rules.
What is Scope of Practice
The intervention is consistent with the diagnosis, and failure to provide the intervention could jeopardize or significantly compromise the client’s condition or quality of medical care.
What is Medical Necessity
An independent, nonprofit organization focused on advancing the quality of services you use to meet your needs for the best possible outcomes.
What is the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
Understanding and appreciating cultural differences between people and its application for intervention
What is Culturally Responsive Care
An international organization that promotes “occupational therapy as an art and science internationally”
What is World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT)
“Treat clients, colleagues and other professionals with respect, fairness, discretion, and integrity”
What is Fidelity
Within OT, recognition from a state or territory that a practitioner has met the requirements to practice in the field of occupational therapy for the time indicated by the license. Each state or territory determines these criteria as well as disciplinary action for those individuals not meeting the required standards.
What is Licensure
A legal and ethical communication process between client (or authorized agent) and clinician that results in the client’s authorization or permission to participate in evaluation and intervention
What is Informed Concent
Detailed Presentation of costs for starting up the business, projected profit/loss statements, and projected balance sheets
Financial Plan
The use of storytelling and story creation in order to share the client's story
What is narrative reasoning
To construct a professional identity in order to get a job interview
What is a resume