Occupational Profile Angelo is a 65-year-old male who has left-sided hemiparesis because of a right cerebrovascular accident that occurred 7 years ago. Though he has left upper extremity weakness, it does not affect his right upper extremity, which is his dominant side. Angelo uses a cane to ambulate between locations, yet he needs to use a rail in order to climb up stairs, and he uses an ankle-foot-orthosis to support his left foot. Although Angelo has no visual and/or perceptual deficits, Angelo struggles to flex his shoulder, extend his elbow, and both flex and extend his fingers. Angelo experiences diminished sensation on his left upper extremity, but it depends on the time of day. When Angelo sits down on a chair next to the table, he places his left upper extremity on the top of the table to support it, using his right upper extremity. In addition, Angelo is able to articulate …show more content…
When a test for sensation was administered using a cotton ball, there were a couple of instances in which Angelo was able to feel the touch of the cotton ball towards the end of his left hand; however, Angelo was not able to locate where one touched his skin using the cotton ball. It indicates that Angelo has diminished touch on the radial side of his left upper extremity post-stroke.
When one administered the dynamometer to measure gross motor strength while another one administered the lateral pinch meter for fine motor strength, there was a significant different in the amount of strength between Angelo’s right upper extremity and left upper extremity. After three trials on both arms through both of these assessment tools occurred, the results indicated that his left upper extremity was significantly weaker than his right upper extremity, all because of his cerebrovascular
Was intact to primary modalities with no extinction on double simultaneous stimulation. He did have a subjectively decreased sensation on the right arm and leg compared to the left.
The purpose of the Occupational Outlook Handbook is to help you look for career information, education and training, and pay. One of the few things you can find in OOH is getting fist class information about a career such as how it work, what are the requirements for that career, and their income. It helps you to get a better understanding of each career so you can decide what career works best for you. Another thing found in OOH is featured occupations, it shows you a few careers that have been projected to grow in the years. The OOH also provides information about time use in america, unemployment, and employment.
The purpose of my paper was writing a report about the person who was interviewed by myself as an OT student for the class Occupational Analysis. The main purpose of this activity was to identify the most important and problematic client’s performance in occupational areas and create the specific goals, based on the client, that relate to improving the client’s quality of life. For the completing this paper a COPM manual and scoring form were used and processed. The interview was concentrated on the background, self care, productivity and leisure kind of information. Additionally, an experience sampling method data collection was used. This research methodology provided an opportunity to capture client’s behaviors, thoughts and feelings
Bruce Mueller started his career as an Occupational Therapist (OT) in a general rehabilitation facility. After five years, he specialized in hand therapy at a medical clinic. In 2003, Mueller became an Occupational Therapist at the Gainesville Veterans Affair Medical Center (VAMC). He applied to become the Occupational Therapist supervisor at the VAMC and claimed the leadership position in 2009. Since then, Mueller has been the acting supervisor for the seventeen additional OT’s employed at the VAMC. The job requires him to be responsible for assigning work, disciplining employees, administering the department’s annual employee performance evaluations, mapping labor, and maintaining other organizational duties.
Occupational Therapy: Hospital Culture & Environment To observe and understand the culture behind occupational therapy in high stress environments, several interviews were conducted. A majority of the interviews were by Mackey; however, I personally interviewed one occupational therapist. “The interviews were discovery orientated: that is, they attempted to reveal experiences and meanings attached to the world they explored,” (Mackey, 2014). The interpretations from the various occupational therapists were diverse, but there was an apparent culture that existed in the career. There are a few important different areas that pertain to the job and the culture behind it: interacting with co-workers, handling the patients, and dealing with higher in command.
Title VII states that an employee cannot be treated differently because of sex unless sex is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ). When used as a defense, bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) allows an organization to hire and employ individuals on the basis of the qualifications reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise. This paper will discuss the necessary steps employers must take in order to justify using sex as a discriminator when hiring employees and review some known cases where BFOQ was used as a defense.
Description: Consists of 30-items describing abilities, limitations, and symptoms, related to upper extremity function. Quick dash contains only 10 questions with optional modules. Scored in two components: 1) upper extremity disability and symptom scale and 2) optional sports/performing arts or work modules. It measures responsiveness to treatment and detects the presence and degree of change in health status longitudinally over time.
Diagnosis of the neuropathy is based on clinical and electrodiagnostic findings. Electrodiagnosis is typically performed to localize the nerve damage at the elbow and to determine the severity of nerve involvement. Evidences demonstrated
As learned in Occupations, completing a developmental profile can be beneficial in both, learning about a client and identifying their needs. Through identifying a client’s needs, occupational therapists can create appropriate interventions to assist the client with those needs. These interventions can be beneficial in improving a clients well-being and life balance.
According to Lannin, Cusick, McCluskey, & Herbert (2007), 82 patients were screened and found to be eligible for this study. However, 63 of inpatients in a medical institution agreed to participate in the study. A standard deviation on the characteristics of these participants was established for the 3 groups that ensured the patients were grouped in terms of gender, age and their scores on the monumental exam (pp.111). Other elements such as their proficiency in speaking English, years of education, unaffected wrist levels, the levels of the extensibility of the wrist and the percentages of patients were hemiplegic on the right-hand side was determined. These results therefore validated the results of the tests with the aim of ensuring that the variables noted were accounted for during the study.
“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile” (Walter Chrysler). Deciding on what one wants to be in life can prove to be a demanding task. There are so many, yet limited, different opportunities in the world to have an excellent career and make a decent living while doing something one loves. It is limited because there are only a few specific career paths that someone could take to make good money. It is very difficult to make a fulfilling living being a garbage man. There are many different opportunities because, within these specific careers, there are usually various paths to take. Someone who has dreams to be a
I interviewed Officer Greenlee, who is a close friend. She works as a Correctional Officer for the Peoria County Jail, I interviewed her while we were on duty on Saturday, April 16th.
Yosef’s active and passive range of motion for both hands are within normal limits. His gross grasp and pinch strength were determined using a dynamometer (Palmar grasp, R= 44lbs, L= 41lbs). Based on normative values, Yosef scored low on the strength tests, indicating below average strength in hands. Yosef was able to oppose his fingers to his thumb and was able to isolate his fingers. He is right hand dominant and held a pencil with a “four finger grasp”. While engaging in writing/coloring portion of the evaluation, he pressed too hard. Yosef was unable to color within the lines, but he rotated paper. He also had poor letter formation and sizing. Some letters were initiated from bottom to top (e.g. p,r,q, etc.) When copying a sentence he omitted
Did you know that a general cartoonist do not need formal education? I would like to follow my dreams which is to become a cartoonist and animator. This essay will describe what career I want the reason why, and what training I will need to achieve and what classes I could be doing now in high school to make my career/dream jod more accomplishable.What will it take to follow my dream career.
Truly, the Biblical Proverb that “ where there is no vision, the people perish,” (King James Version, Proverbs 29.18), holds categorically true when it comes to evaluating and crafting a career. The laissez-faire approach to mapping out one’s professional life produces no certain results and while the tumultuous trail of time can toss even the best laid plans asunder, a roadmap, of sorts, must be crafted for an individual’s career if they intend to make purposeful, strategic, and sound decisions. In the following pages, we will examine first the Career Center at Colorado State University - Global Campus (CSU Global, 2016) before highlighting the results of several assessments and resources that lent particular clarity to my situation. Clearly, these assessments do not exist in an isolated universe and will highlight certain strengths I bring to the table in any employment situation. Tentatively and optimistically, I will then project a career path over my life for the coming years with plainly articulated leadership approach that, no doubt, has potential to play a significant role in my family’s life with resounding implication. Through investigation, inspiration, and perspiration, I plan to create a career path exhibiting, above all, clarity and flexibility.