Ron, I wish you luck with your endeavor. I have a power point presentation that I use for nursing education relative to OT. If you would like to see it, I could email it to you. Jimmie
-----Original Message----- From: Ron Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:02 PM To: Jimmie Arcenaux Subject: Re: [OTlist] Large Fl. Hospital Case Managers and OT referrals Hello Jimmie: Sounds like you are being very proactive... but isn't it frustrating?? I am always so miffed because our profession is so old but so under utilized. I am planning to go back to the hospital in a couple of weeks to provide in-service education. Ron ============================================= On 8/5/2003,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JA> Hey Ron, JA> I have had the same experience. Part of my duties has to do with JA> therapy utilization at the home health care company I work for. OT JA> and ST utilization were both extremely poor when I started. I have JA> been working at it by increasing awareness, auditing charts and JA> developing programs. What bothers me most about this in the home JA> care setting is that OT is probably the best discipline to intervene JA> with a home care patient. There is a definite identity crisis at JA> work. Nursing has really no idea what OTs does. They either have JA> developed their own ideas of OT or have received erroneous JA> information about the UE only thing. JA> -----Original Message----- From: Ron Carson JA> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:49 PM JA> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OTlist] Large Fl. Hospital Case JA> Managers and OT referrals JA> Hello: JA> This morning, I met with one of Central Florida's largest hospital's JA> case manager staff. I personally asked with approximately 10 case JA> managers and asked if the refer their d/c'd patients for OT. Every JA> one of them said something like: "not too much for OT, but quite a JA> bit for PT". JA> How can it be? How can a large hospital's case manager staff not JA> refer to OT, except in rare cases? JA> I get so frustrated with such scenarios because, in my experience, JA> it happens all the time. It is so rare to speak with someone in the JA> medical field that utilizes OT for clients with occupational JA> performance issues. On those rare occasions that someone does JA> mention OT, it has been from an orthopedic setting and they refer to JA> OT for upper extremity issues.... YUCK! JA> Ron JA> P.S. Just needed to vent! JA> *****************************��********************************** JA> To remove yourself from the OTnow mail list, send a message to: JA> [EMAIL PROTECTED] JA> In the message's *body*, put the following text: JA> unsubscribe OTlist JA> - JA> List messages are archived at: JA> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] JA> *****************************��*********************************** JA> *****************************��********************************** JA> To remove yourself from the OTnow mail list, send a message to: JA> [EMAIL PROTECTED] JA> In the message's *body*, put the following text: JA> unsubscribe OTlist JA> - JA> List messages are archived at: JA> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] JA> *****************************��*********************************** *****************************��********************************** To remove yourself from the OTnow mail list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist - List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] *****************************��*********************************** *****************************��********************************** To remove yourself from the OTnow mail list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist - List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] *****************************��***********************************
