Assignment: Professional Stability

Assignment: Professional Stability

Assignment: Professional Stability

Purchased from AOTA for the exclusive use of Saleh Bukhamsin (saleh-bu50@hotmail.com 000004590130) © 2019 AOTA. Please report unauthorized use to aotapress@aota.org
237

1980 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture

Time is a problem for all of us. However, well designed and funded research projects should provide resources to support the clinician and educator in research activities. We have to organize and order our priorities to accom- plish basic research for the sake of professional stability. Looking outside the profession, I find that similar conflicts between education and practice are not uncommon. Survival of the profession is an issue whether one is from the university structure or a clinical facility. The missing link in destroying this conflict is collaborative research with a commitment to the growth of our profession. Some persons might not agree that the social or biological scientist must enter the picture, but I am now convinced that the skills and attitude of those individuals are critical for the process to proceed. Now we must develop a treatment plan for the second problem.

Problem II. The Health Services Delivery Primarily Within the Acute Care Model

GOAL: Expand the delivery of occupational therapy service from the acute care model of service.Hospitals initially were a shelter for the socially unfit whether due to severe disability, mental illness, or indigence. The hospital was set apart from the medical community. This was the population served when occupational therapy was initi- ated as a profession. Private patients were not treated in hospitals until the turn of the century. Insurance did not pay for hospital care until the 1930s and then for only a few. Not until the late 1950s was there a major breakthrough in third party reimbursement. Social forces and the scientific revolution have produced many changes in hospital care. These forces have grown so strong coupled with government regulations and escalat- ing costs that a new organizational structure for hospital systems has been mandated. Hospitals are being forced to become more and more responsive to community health needs, and more accountable to the community for their performance (14). The economic forces of high cost, capital equipment obsolescence, cost containment directives, reimbursement,

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.