Main description:

Put essential OT information at your fingertips! Occupational Therapy Pocket Guide provides a quick reference that's ideal for use in the clinical setting. From evaluation and assessment through diagnoses and interventions, this handbook summarizes the details you need to know for safe, effective client rehabilitation. It also includes normal ranges for vitals and laboratory tests. Written by experienced occupational therapist Lyndsey Jarvis, this compact clinical reference makes lookup easy and helps you perform OT tasks and skills with confidence.

Concise coverage provides a quick yet thorough overview of each OT topic
Logical organization includes six separate sections: Assessment, Conditions, Additional Intervention, Education, Documentation, and Reference Tools.
eBook version is included with print purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Contents:

Assessment
OT Evaluation Quick Reference
1. Vitals
2. Range of Motion
3. Muscle Grades
4. Balance Grades
5. Orthostatic Hypotension
6. Pitting Edema
7. Initial Interview
8. Basic Task Analyses
9. Common Upper Extremity Conditions with Special Orthopedic Tests
10. Mobility and Balance Assessments
11. Functional Assessments
12. Cognitive Assessments
13. Home Safety Evaluation/Checklist
14. Underlying Dysfunction
Conditions: Description, Intervention
15. Aftercare Following Joint Replacement
16. Alzheimer's Disease/Dementia
17. Burns
18. Cardiovascular Disease
19. Cerebral Vascular Accident/Stroke
20. Dysphagia
21. Fracture
22. Hand Injury and Impairment
23. Low Vision
24. Multiple Sclerosis
25. Osteoarthritis (OA/DJD)
26. Pain
27. Parkinson's Disease
28. Pressure Ulcers
29. Respiratory Conditions
30. Spinal Cord Injury
31. Traumatic Brain Injury
Additional Intervention
32. Types of Intervention
33. ADL/IADL Retraining Techniques
34. Tendon Glides, Median Nerve Glides
35. PNF Patterns
36. Adaptive Equipment
Education
37. Energy Conservation Techniques
38. Fall Prevention
39. Joint Protection Principles
40. Proper Body Mechanics
41. Surgical Precautions: Cardiac
42. Surgical Precautions: Orthopedic
Documentation
43. Reason for Referral Narrative
44. SOAP Note/Treatment Encounter Note
45. Homebound Status
46. Skilled Terminology
Reference Tools
47. Anatomical Planes and Orientation
48. Muscle Diagrams
49. Dematomes
50. Lab Values and Implications for Therapy
References