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Wellness Midterm USAHS Questions and Answers 100% correct Occupational therapy enabling clients to maximize their capacity to participate in life activities that are important and meaningful to them, to promote overall health and wellness OT guiding principle Understand the complex and dynamic interactions between people, their environment, and their activities, and how these affect health and wellness. OTs facilitate success by matching the person's skills to activity demands c...

USAHS Neuroscience Exam 3

Movement - fundamental aspect of occupational participation. Movement control: - interactions between individual, task and the environment. Environmental - CNS must be able to analyze activity being performed in order to effectively plan task specific movements. Can be divided into non-regulatory & regulatory. Non-regulatory: - Distractions such as background noise, changing lighting. Performance may be affected by these factors but movement does not have to conform to this. As an OT, you m...

Cardiac monitor displays what? - HR, BP, RR, O2 Sat When do OTs take vitals in acute care & ICU? - Before every session especially with CP clients When do OTs take vitals in home health? - Often required to record for every session When do OTs take vitals in inpatient rehab? - Depending on the medical stability of client and comorbidities. Normal range respiratory rate - 10-12 breaths per minute Pulse oximeter measures? - Amount of oxygen in blood. Bradypnea O2 - <12 Tachypnea O2 - &g...

Different types of anxiety disorders - anxiety disorder panic disorder various phobia-related disorders. Best course of treatment for anxiety - Most of the time the best type of management for anxiety disorders is a combination of pharmacological interventions as well as psychological interventions Antidepressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) are used frequently to treat anxiety disorders The most effective management for anxiety disorders is really cognitive beh...

A teenager who has a moderate learning disability is watching over other teenagers playing basketball. He wants to play but does not feel he will be good enough to be with them. Which element of Wilcock's theory is the teenager experiencing? - Loss of belonging The OT is observing her patient with hallucinations find his way to the dining room. However, another patient keeps telling the male adult which direction to walk in. About what is the OT therefore unable to reason? - Identifying th...

Key element to OT delivery is - Client centeredness Occupation promotes - Health and well-being AOTA was established in - 1917 Original name is - National society for promotion of occupational therapy OT philosophy - For a person to feel fulfilled Engaging in occupation will help in meeting that fulfillness Occupation is perceived as meaningful and purposeful to the person that is engaging Values in _______ the client - Enabling We want to enable what they need to do Contemporary OT pra...

When a joint is referred to as ____________, it means the motion at that joint is limited. There are many factors that can contribute to restricted motion, such as pain, musculotendinous unit dysfunction, bony block, postural malalignment, and effusion. - hypomobile A ________________ refers to the adaptive shortening of the soft tissue structures that surround a joint. This causes limited passive and active range of motion. - contracture ______________ contracture: the adaptive shortening ...

How much dorsiflexion is needed to navigate stairs? What about walking? - Walking- neutral; Stairs 20 degrees What nerve innervates the dorsiflexors? - Deep peroneal What nerve innervates the plantarflexors? - Tibial nerve Supraspinatus origin, insertion, action, and innervation - Origin: supraspinous fossa of the scapula Insertion: superior facet of the greater tubercle of the humerus and the capsule of the shoulder joint Action: abducts and externally rotates the humerus and stabilizes t...

what is contact precautions? - used to prevent transmission of infectious agents that are spread by direct or indirect contact with patient or environment. when would you use contact precautions? - excessive wound drainage, fecal incontinence, other discharges from body with increased risk of transmission what are the Contact precautions guidelines? - wash hands before and after entering, gloves, gown (when in direct contact with patient or environment), 3ft between beds and dedicated equip...

What are the 5 steps of neurological development in order? - Neurulation, cell proliferation, migration and aggregation, formation of axonal and dendritic processes, and synaptogenesis ______________ involves the formation of the neural crest and neural tube. - Neurulation Cell proliferation occurs within the ________ _______. - Neural tube During the migration and aggregation phase of embryological development the cells migrate/aggregate within _________ locations. - Definitive True or fa...

Apraxia - inability to make a motor plan, as a result of brain damage. Ataxia - lack of muscle coordination Aphasia - impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding). 1 olfactory - Making client smell something pleasant front of brain 2 optic - thalamus - test visual acuity (Snellen chart, or # of fingers) front of brain 3 Oculomotor - thalamus - looking up, in and left to right...