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Chapter 5 Questions
1. Explain why therapeutic recreation specialist should become familiar with basic management tools and techniques.
• By having basic management techniques, we can understand how to make our program accessible to people in ways such as finances, we can reduce safety risks and we can have evidence based care. People will see that we are an organized facility. Management techniques will also teach us how to use technology for things such as charting. Something we should know how to do are marketing, networking, safety management, accessibility, inclusion, as well as ethics and morals.
2. Identify the components of a written plan of operation and discuss their relevance to therapeutic recreation programming.
• Vision, mission, value and goal statements
o This tells what we believe in and what we want to accomplish. Clients will have faith that we can help them and that we will do it in a way that is ethical
• Organizational structure:
o This can identify the type of service we offer. This can also help people to know who to turn to with help of a client
• Scope of Care and Unit structure:
o This can help people know what the purpose of each aspect of the facility are. This will help us know what clients we can help and other organizations to work with
• Programs and services offered:
o This will help recreational therapists to make plans and programs for each client. It helps to see the end goal and how we will get there
• Protocols and Intervention plans:
o This will put the goal of each person out there and what part each person is going to play to reach that goal. This will help us understand each aspect of the client
• Policies, Procedures, Rules:
o This will require us to document interactions with clients, keep people safe, how many staff need to be on an outing with us and other concerns
• Staff Credentials:
o This helps each staff member where they fit into the client’s care. This helps people stay within their scope of practice
• Quality Improvement:
o This helps with, evaluation, risk management, infection control, and documentation
• Participant/ Program Evaluation and Research
o In this way, we can know how to better improve our programs to help people in better ways and to reach more people
3. Identify the various forms of health-care financing and the alternative methods to fund therapeutic recreation services.
• The first party is the client paying, the second party is health-care provider or organizations and the third party is insurance providers.
• Medicare and Medicaid will only pay for services they deem “necessary”
• Scholarships are awarded to those who cannot afford to participate
• United Way will fund social service agencies
• Foundations: usually prominent families in the community or successful businesses
• Grants: from local, state or national government
• Local organizations such as Rotary club