Duties & Responsibilities
She works extensively on
-> Review patients’ medical history and asses their condition and needs
-> Evaluate patients' ability to do certain tasks
-> Confer with physicians, patients and their families, nurses, therapists, and other members of a patient's care team
-> Develop a treatment plan for patients with specific goals and tasks that will help them meet those goals
-> Guide patients to perform tasks to meet their goals
-> Demonstrate exercises that can help patients better perform everyday tasks and relieve pain
-> Evaluate a patient’s home or workplace and identify potential improvements based on their needs
-> Educate a patient’s family about how to help care for and accommodate them
-> Recommend and teach patients how to use adaptive equipment that will help them with daily living, such as wheelchairs and eating aids
-> Assess patients' progress against goals and prepare reports for Documentation.
-> She make the plans differ depending on patients' needs, but all strive to develop, increase, or maintain independence in performing tasks of daily living.