PRINCIPLES FOR IMPLEMENTING DUTY OF CARE

American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2004

This document contains four sections that direct the delivery of occupational therapy services. These sections are General Supervision, Supervision of Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants, Roles and Responsibilities of Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants During the Delivery of Occupational Therapy Services, and Supervision of Occupational Therapy Aides. General Supervision These guidelines provide a definition of supervision and outline parameters regarding effective supervision as it relates to the delivery of occupational therapy services. These supervision guidelines are to assist in the appropriate and effective provision of occupational therapy services. The guidelines themselves cannot be interpreted to constitute a standard of supervision in any particular locality. Occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and occupational therapy aides are expected to meet applicable state and federal regulations, adhere to relevant workplace policies and the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics (AOTA, 2005) and participate in ongoing professional development activities to maintain continuing competency.

2008

Arras (1991) has made the case for individual case-based reasoning to address ethical dilemmas. He and others have shown how the circumstances of a case can oft en clarify the ethical principles behind diffi cult decisions. Th e following case illustrates the tension between the duty to treat and continuing treatment that causes distress to a colleague. Case Repor t Patient AC had been an outpatient at a psychiatric hospital since the hospital opened in the late 1960s. She had had several inpatient admissions at that hospital and was being treated there as an outpatient. Despite comprehensive psychosocial treatment and depot medication, she had never been free of auditory, olfactory, and somatic hallucinations, nor of delusional thinking. Th at being said, she had functioned, on the whole, well. Aft er her parents' death, she successfully lived on her own, maintained a clean and attractive apartment, took care of her own health (she was diabetic), grooming, fi nances, and sustenance. She also looked aft er her cat. She went to church, occasionally entertained her one and only friend, and visited with her sister and her nephews.

Nursing Standard, 2017

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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2007

Compared to other health care professions such as medicine, nursing and pharmacy, few studies have been conducted to examine the nature of practice errors in occupational and physical therapy. In an ongoing study to determine root causes, typographies and impact of occupational and physical therapy error on patients, focus group interviews have been conducted across the United States. A substantial number of harmful practice errors and/or other patient safety events (deviations or accidents) have been identified. Often these events have had moral dimensions that troubled the therapist involved. In this article, six of these transcribed cases are analyzed, using predominant bioethical theories, ethical principles and professional codes of ethics. The cases and their analyses are intended to be exemplary, improving the readersÕ ability to discern and critically address similar such events. Several patient safety strategies are suggested that might have prevented the events described in these cases.

Encyclopedia of Counseling, 2008

IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (JHSS), 2012

Health and social care profession is one of the most common professions in contemporary Britain. The health and social care industry is currently one of UK\'s largest employers. Over the years, there have been developments in the profession with more recognition to its status and more people getting into the work force. One major change to the profession is the creation of professional organizations which seems to protect and add more value to the profession. These professional organizations lay down ethical standards that professionals have to abide to in order to practice ethically. Some approaches to the ethical standards are normative (that is, they present standard of right or good action), others are descriptive (that is, they report what people believe and how they act), and still others analyze the concepts and methods of ethics (Beauchamp and Childress 1994). The morally prescribed behavior (i.e., the “right” thing to do) would be a person’s ethical duty, or moral obligation, in that situation. A theory of obligation is also a normative ethical theory because it presents rules of right and wrong conducts that apply to everyone.

Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine, 2013

Addressing patients' rights issues brings occupational therapists ethical and political responsibilities that involve patients' privileges and new facilitating factors which influence their needs. The goal of this study was to determine the level of occupational therapists' knowledge about patients' rights. The present research was a cross-sectional study which involved 125 occupational therapists chosen by a convenience sampling strategy in Tehran during the year of 2012. A four-part questionnaire was used for data collection, and the degree of the subjects' self-assessment of their knowledge was measured based on the obtained numbers of correct answers in the third part. The validity and reliability of this questionnaire were assessed prior to its being distributed among participants. The results demonstrated no significant association between the level of occupational therapists' knowledge about patients' rights and their existing experiences within th...

Introduction: Ethical tensions are an unavoidable part of occupational therapy practice. Given the significance of this, and the divergent nature of the literature, a need was identified for a systematic examination of the published literature on this topic. The purpose of this scoping review therefore was to identify, summarize, and describe existing literature on ethical tensions in occupational therapy practice. Method: A comprehensive scoping review was conducted. In the initial search, 459 articles, spanning a 13-year time frame, were retrieved from six databases; 32 articles met the criteria for full review. Results: Seven themes were identified that highlighted ethical tensions related to: (a) resource and systemic issues; (b) upholding ethical principles and values; (c) client safety; (d) working with vulnerable clients; (e) interpersonal conflicts; (f) upholding professional standards and (g) practice management. Conclusion: This scoping review highlights a breadth of ethical tensions that have implications for practice, education, policy and research. It represents an important first step in mapping knowledge about ethical tensions in occupational therapy practice, and lays a foundation for future research directions.