OT Kitchen Escape

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You're in the ADL kitchen at University. You're nearly qualified, you've had three successful placements and you can't wait to get out into practice. However, you're beginning to feel like an imposter...

Look at the note on the fridge

Skills

Identify 2 skills a newly qualified OT needs to be successful in practice and how would you would embed these in the curriculum?

Coproduction

Assertiveness

What is coproduction, and why do Occupational Therapists need it?

Co-production fundamentally alters the relationship between service providers and users; it emphasises people as active agents, not passive beneficiaries. This makes it an ideal approach for empowerment and ownership of treatment and care. This level of independence and autonomy is what Occupational Therapists within our service strive for. (OTalk, 2017)

Please read the below statements, and order them 1-4, 1 being optimum coproduction, and 4 being poor coproduction

A. Doing to, trying to fix people

B. Doing with, in an equal partnership

C. Doing nothing

D. Doing for, with some involvement

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How can coproduction be included throughout the Occupational Therapy Curriculum?

A. Small group exercises

B. Lectures with other disciplines

C. Simulation/role play

D. Service user/carer events

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Skills

Coproduction

Assertiveness

What is assertiveness, and why do Occupational Therapists need it?

"Professional assertiveness is an interpersonal communication skill that helps express opinions or knowledge while respecting similar competencies in others."Med Educ Online, 2023

Practial Example: You are working on an inpatient ward. You've been working with a patient who is developing their ADL skills. The MDT are hoping to discharge the service user back home as they are medically fit for discharge but you have clinical reasons for them to continue your OT input with them, so their quality of life and independence will be greater upon discharge. What do you do?

Provide your clinical reasoning to the MDT about the service user's current functional abilities

Sit back and do nothing

Argue with the MDT, telling them their opinion is invalid

Speak to your supervisor after the MDT meeting

Practical example:You are working in a community mental health team, you are visiting a service user who is quiet and withdrawn. Their carer continually speaks for the service user so you're unable to gain information directly from the service user. What do you do?

Respect the carer's concerns, while enabling opportunity for the service user to speak

Tell the carer to stop talking

How can assertiveness be included throughout the Occupational Therapy Curriculum?

A. Peer/Group supervision

B. Lectures with other disciplines

C. Simulation/Role plays

D. Reflections

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Skills

Coproduction

Assertiveness

Congrats!

You have learned more about important skills to help you thrive as a newly qualified Occupational Therapist

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References OTalk, (2017) #OTalk 25th July – Co-Production and Occupational Therapy. https://otalk.co.uk/2017/07/20/otalk-25th-july-co-production-and-occupational-therapy/ Med Educ Online, (2023) Healthcare providers and patients: an essay on the importance of professional assertiveness in healthcare todayhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101662/#:~:text=Professional%20assertiveness%20is%20an%20interpersonal,person%2C%20ideas%2C%20and%20autonomy.