This blog discusses different ethical dilemmas that may occur in your career as an OT. She discusses a survey that she conducted that looked at various dilemmas that OT's in the geriatric population believe occur most frequently. A few include treating a patient that does not need to be treated, seeing patients past the point of progress, and billing patients for documentation of an intervention that never occurred. This is a great read and great blog for other areas if you are interested!
started by eesmith12 on 23 Jul 17
This blog discusses different ethical dilemmas that may occur in your career as an OT. She discusses a survey that she conducted that looked at various dilemmas that OT's in the geriatric population believe occur most frequently. A few include treating a patient that does not need to be treated, seeing patients past the point of progress, and billing patients for documentation of an intervention that never occurred. This is a great read and great blog for other areas if you are interested!