Product Description

This phenomenal new text focuses on assisting students in learning that there can be many possible choices in the clinical decision making process, and that these different choices can lead to many equally successful outcomes.

Case Studies Through the Health Care Continuum: A Workbook for the Occupational Therapy Student is an entire book of case studies of adults with physical and psychological deficits. Each case study is followed by questions, organized around performance areas and performance components, treatment planning and discharge planning areas. The questions are designed to encourage clinical thinking about the cases. The cases encompass a variety of diagnoses and take place in a variety of health care arenas.

By using case studies, students will begin to, and advance, their thinking process before directly dealing with clients. The cases are comprehensive and well thought out, and the questions provide a good starting point for processing and guiding critical thinking. This exceptional text can be used in almost every course in the curriculum!

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Contents

Part I Introduction

Part II Acute Care Hospital

Chapter 1: Adam: Myocardial Infarct, Coronary Artery Disease

Chapter 2: Beth: Radical Right Mastectomy, Right Upper Extremity Lymphedema

Chapter 3: Craig: Spinal Cord Injury at C5, Incomplete

Chapter 4: Donald: Traumatic Brain Injury- Level 2

Chapter 5: Ellen: Right Total Shoulder Replacement, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Part III
Rehabilitation Hospital

Chapter 6: Frank: Right Cerebrovascular Accident, Left Hemiplegia, Left Hemianopsia

Chapter 7: Gloria: Superficial, Partial and Full Thickness Burns, 39% Total Body Surface Area

Chapter 8: Harris: Spinal Cord Injury at T3

Chapter 9: Ingrid: Traumatic Brain Injury-Level 5

Chapter 10: Jing: Right Above Elbow Amputation

Part IV
Transitional Care Unit

Chapter 11: Kim: Coronary Artery Bypass x3, Congestive Heart Failure

Chapter 12: Lyle: Right Total Knee Replacement

Chapter 13: Mary: Left Total Hip Replacement, OsteoArthritis

Chapter 14: Nellie: Compression Fractures T12-L2

Chapter 15: Oscar: Pneumonia, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Part V
Skilled Nursing Facility

Chapter 16: Paula: Parkinson's Disease

Chapter 17: Quinn: Dementia

Chapter 18: Rob: Blindness, Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Chapter 19: Sean: Left Above Knee Amputation, Stage II Sacral Decubitus Ulcer

Chapter 20:Teresa: End-Stage Alzheimer's

Part VI
Out-Patient Rehabilitation Clinic

Chapter 21: Ursula: Right Carpal Tunnel Repair, Left Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Chapter 22: Violet: Right Flexor Tendon Laceration, Depression

Chapter 23: Walter: Right 2-5 Digit Amputation

Chapter 24: Xavier: Bilateral Tendonitis

Chapter 25: Yolanda: Left Fractured Humerus, 2 weeks post injury

Part VII
Home and Community Health Care

Chapter 26: Zoe: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Chapter 27: Alice: Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 28: Barb: Left Cerebrovascular Accident, Right Hemiparesis, Expressive Aphasia

Chapter 29: Charles: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Chapter 30: Dimitre: Right Fractured Radius and Ulna, 6 weeks post injury

Part VIII
Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Chapter 31: Elizabeth: Major Depression, Suicidal Ideation

Chapter 32: Freddie: Schizophrenia, Paranoid Type with Acute Psychosis

Chapter 33: George: Bipolar Disorder, Manic Episode

Chapter 34: Harold: Poly-substance Abuse

Chapter 35: Irene: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Part IX
Psychiatric Day Hospital

Chapter 36: Jayna: Borderline Personality Disorder

Chapter 37: Kara: Anorexia Nervosa

Chapter 38: Leo: Schizo-affective Disorder

Chapter 39: Maura: AIDS-related Dementia

Chapter 40: Nancy: Depression

Part III
Rehabilitation Hospital

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Reviews

"The authors present the cases to press the student to integrate and apply knowledge across curriculum course content...The questions posed at the end of each case provide rich thought for discussion."

— Tiffany Boggis, MBA,OTR/L, -Doody Publishing

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