Occupational Therapy: Essential to Critical Care Rehabilitation
| Autor: | Chelsea Thompson, John L. Margetis, Jamie Wilcox, Nicole Mannion |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Occupational therapy
medicine.medical_specialty Rehabilitation Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Critical Care business.industry SARS-CoV-2 medicine.medical_treatment MEDLINE COVID-19 030208 emergency & critical care medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030228 respiratory system Nursing Occupational Therapy Multidisciplinary approach Pandemic Health care Medicine Humans business Critical Care Outcomes |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association. 75(2) |
| ISSN: | 0272-9490 |
| Popis: | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reshaped the health care landscape, leading to the reassignment of essential health care workers to critical areas and widespread furloughs of providers deemed nonessential, including occupational therapy practitioners. Although multidisciplinary critical care teams often include occupational therapy practitioners, efforts to define, measure, and disseminate occupational therapy’s unique contributions to critical care outcomes have been overlooked. This editorial provides recommendations to improve the occupational therapy profession’s readiness to meet society’s current and future pandemic needs. We propose a three-pronged strategy to strengthen occupational therapy clinical practice, education, and advocacy to illuminate the distinct value of occupational therapy in critical care. |
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