I essentially do the same with proviso that I have sent communication notes to other team members and asking for their assist as to progress and if/when it may be appropriate to re-eval.
Neal C. Luther,OTR/L Advanced Home Care, Burlington Office 1-336-538-1194, xt 6672 [email protected] Home Care is our Business...Caring is our Specialty P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail The information contained in this electronic document from Advanced Home Care is privileged and confidential information intended for the sole use of [email protected]. If the reader of this communication is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the person listed above and discard the original.-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Carson Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 10:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OTlist] Empowering Your Patients... Hello All: I frequently, in fact almost always, let patients make decisions about therapy and I wonder if other therapists do the same. For example, today I explained to a patient that I could continue seeing her 5x/week, 3x/week or whatever else she wanted. To my surprise, the patient elected to decrease OT to 3x/week. Also, a couple weeks ago I left a patient with the statement that OT could only continue if the patient generated goals for himself. On the next visit, the patient told me his only goal was to "walk like a man". I explained that "walking" was a PT goal but that if he had any daily living goals, I could continue. He again stated that his only goal was walking. So, again to my surprise, I was left with no alternative but discharge. Also during evals, I leave the start of therapy up to the patient. I explain that I can see the patient or not, and it's up to them. I explain what I will do as far as general treatment but leave the decision to the patient. Do others do this same thing? One thing I can say is that this approach does not make my supervisor very happy. I tend to have more than the normal amount of "eval only". Thanks, Ron ~~~ Ron Carson MHS, OT www.OTnow.com -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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