Benefits of EBP - 0 views
This article dicusses the improvement of health care delivery from incorporating EBP into the care of patients. Evidence Based practice takes the most recent research and allows health care profess...
Supervision Requirements in WV - 1 views
The just gives a description of OT/COTA requirements in West Viriginia. The OT must do the initial evaluation and establish the POC. The COTA is responsible for delivery of the services based upon ...
5 Keys to Professionalism in the Workplace - 0 views
This website gives 5 key factors in professionalism. Professionalism is important in any career. James R. Ball wrote a book in 2001 titled, "Professionalism is for Everyone" and that is where he de...
What is Clinical Reasoning? - 1 views
https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1877117
Psychosocial Needs of the Elderly - 0 views
This website provides a training approach with different activities and strategies to help develop the understanding of psychosocial needs as well as how to give the best person centered care. This...
Psychosocial interventions for the promotion of mental health and the prevention of dep... - 1 views
An article in health promotion international sought to determine the effects of various interventions to promote mental health and decrease depressive symptoms in older adults. There were a total o...
OTR-COTA Collaboration in Home Health: Roles and Supervisory Issues - 0 views
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9164611 This article highlights the importance of trust and communication between OTR/Ls and COTAs when therapists are not practicing in one facility at the sam...
Occupational Therapy Students' Perspectives of Professionalism: An Exploratory Study - 0 views
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1154&context=ojot This study separates first year and second year students' ideas of professionalism and highlights the importance of supe...
Factors Affecting Clinical Reasoning of Occupational Therapists - 0 views
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC4154286/ An interesting article identifying various elements that could affect our clinical reasoning in practice, including social attitude of disab...
Ethical Dilemmas in Family Caregiving for the Elderly: Implications for Occupational Th... - 0 views
As OT's, we are to develop a therapeutic relationship with our clients. It is our responsibility to understand the clients ethical beliefs to help build that therapeutic relationship. This research...
Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work - 2 views
As OT's we will be required to work with numerous team members for a collective and collaborative interdisciplinary team. This research utilized interviews in addition to a systematic review. Ten c...
Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy vs No Therapy in Mild to Moderate Parkinson Dise... - 3 views
To aim of this study was to determine the cost-effective and clinically effective nature of an OT and PT program for adults with mild to moderate Parkinson's Disease (PD). Participants with limitat...
Supervision: tips to being a great supervisor - 2 views
http://www.health.umd.edu/fsap/supervisor.html I took this topic using a different approach and thought what articles would be good if I was a supervisor in the future. This article presents mult...
Psychosocial effects of strokes - 0 views
http://www.strokensw.org.au/about-stroke/recovery/psychological-effects/ This article shows the various psychosocial aspects of life that may be effected s/p CVA. It's easy to remember to look at...
Evidence-Based Practice - 0 views
https://www.ebrsr.com/sites/default/files/documents/executive-summary-srebr_final_16ed.pdf Here is a fantastic review of various stroke interventions and evidence-based practice. It provides evid...
Providing opportunities for student self-assessment: the impact on the acquisition of p... - 0 views
An OT department studied the development of psychomotor skills for students. The aim of the study was to determine whether the introduction to opportunities to self-evaluate better prepared student...
Relationship Between Intuition and Emotional Intelligence in Occupational Therapists in... - 0 views
The study was designed to investigate the relationship between intuition and emotional intelligence. A survey design with self-reported data was chosen to investigate the preference of Australian o...
Research Pyramid: A New Evidence-Based Practice Model for Occupational Therapy - 1 views
https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1853025 A model develop by Borgetto et al. in 2007 was expanded and is presented in this research. The model is referred to as the Research Pyramid and...
Using the Case Method to Develop Clinical Reasoning Skills in Problem-Based Learning | ... - 0 views
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This article focusing on techniques that can be used to develop clinical reasoning for Occupational Therapy students and new practitioners, in which it argues is the basis of all occupational therapy treatment. The article presents that using case studies within the classroom setting provides the ability for students to clinically reason, problem solve and develop treatment skills in a controlled way. It suggests using guiding questions based on student weakness that will promote growth and creativity in developing clinical reasoning skills. This article must have some merit because case studies have been used and continue to be used in a variety of classroom settings to this day including our own.