In a message dated 7/17/2006 4:06:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our Service is proposing that all therapy staff work 7 days. We within a intermediate care setting and we are wondering if anybody else works 7 days and what shift pattern that works. What evidence is there that doing therapy 7 days a week works and what continuity it brings and if the therapist keeps changing? Steve Steve, I work in an acute and subacute rehab. setting, and we provide therapy 7 days a week, but this doesn't mean that every patient receives 7 days of therapy. It is more to ensure that most get 6 days a week, and that patients admitted late in the week are started on their program efficiently. Admissions are arriving later and later in the day, as the acute care hospitals are looking to discharge as soon as possible, and having someone arrive on a Friday afternoon and then just sit until Monday is not viewed as providing optimum care. We have a variety of ways of coordinating this - our OT dept. has staff who work Sun - Thurs, or Tues - Sat., and their caseloads are covered by other therapists on their "off" weekdays. The PT dept. handles it more through the use of a rotation schedule and per diem staff. I share your concern about constantly shifting staff in terms of continuity of care, but I feel that our compromise in the OT dept. minimizes this as much as possible. Ann -- Unsubscribe? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Help? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
