Anne Labrador

• Worked as sole occupational therapist providing services to developmentally disabled adult population for clients who were being moved from an institutional setting to care homes; they concurrently attended a daily living skills program.
• Conducted assessments and wrote  life skills programs for clients who benefited from training in the areas of self care such as feeding, washing hands, making the bed, doing laundry etc.   
• Accompanied patients to outings in the community to aid community integration.
• Completed daily and monthly progress note writing in order to document patient progress with skills acquisition.
• Trained incoming staff in writing life skills programs and in how to conduct daily client programming.
• Worked with the care home operators in their homes to teach them how to implement life skills programs at home in order that client's had optimal opportunities to achieve functional independence.

• Worked as the sole  psychiatric occupational therapist on an interdisciplinary team consisting of psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, and substance abuse counseling providing clinical services to veterans, on both a sixteen bed inpatient ward, and an outpatient day hospital program. Services provided to patients with a range of diagnoses such as PTSD, depression, chronic mental illness and substance abuse.
• Conducted occupational therapy functional assessments and educated staff as to the results and expected patient performance when returning to the community.
• Planned and facilitated a variety of treatment groups for both inpatient and outpatient veterans with mental illness in the areas of life skills, arts and crafts, process group therapy, art therapy, bibliotherapy, leisure skills and psycho-educational groups.
• Planned and implemented individualized Occupational Therapy intervention for inpatient and outpatient population.
• Provided training and supervision to COTA students and level II Occupational therapy interns.
• Acted as case manager for  an assigned population to coordinate overall care for both inpatient and outpatient populations. Made referrals to the outpatient mental health service, substance abuse program, and the mental health rehabilitation program as patients stabilized  to insure continuity of care.
• Completion of Mental Health inpatient suicide risk assessments and safety plans for high risk patients.
• Completed Day Hospital screenings; also progress note writing  and other documentation for both inpatient and outpatients. 
• Made referrals to the outpatient Incentive Work Therapy, Compensated Work Therapy, and Supported Employment Work Therapy programs.
• Was the liaison for the inpatient ward to the VA suicide prevention outpatient program in order to identify and designate patents who were at high-risk for suicide.  Coordinated and assigned staff to complete safety plans for high-risk-for-suicide patients.
• Acted as lead professional for Root Cause Analysis for adverse incidents which occurred on the inpatient ward which posed potential patient safety risks;  acted as leader for the RCA  panel gathering information regarding the incident and present corrective recommendations to the Director.  
• Was an active member of the following committees: Patient Record Flag committee which met to assign and remove high-risk flags on patient's charts when they were assessed as high-risk for suicide. Workplace Violence, Fugitive Felon committee which reviewed patient's charts who were assessed as having the potential for violence directed at staff.  Behavioral flags were placed on the patient's chart when deemed necessary to alert other staff. Recovery Council which reviewed recovery based programming, both at the VA and at community-based programs, to insure consistent development of recovery-based curricula.

Position Summery: Working as a Qualified Mental Health Associate who assists in the care and treatment of residents with psychiatric disabilities in a Secure Residential Treatment Facility. Provides individual and group life skills training and a wide variety of other professional duties to residents.

• Observes and monitors residents and documents changes in behaviors

and mental and medical conditions.

• Acts as an interdisciplinary team member informing lead staff persons case managers, and other pertinent parties of resident's needs or concerns.
• Teaches and monitors resident progress in learning daily living skills.
• Provides assist and leadership in management of behavioral emergencies.
• Provides timely, accurate documentation that meets or exceeds billing criteria and uses appropriate psychosocial terminology. Adheres to (OAR) Oregon Administrative rules and standards of care.
• Assists residents with banking, shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, mental and physical health provider appointments, and with social service provider appointments.
• Plans and coordinates recreational activities and outings.
• Plans and facilitates skills training groups, art therapy groups etc.
• Participates in treatment planning and and acts as member of the interdisciplinary treatment team. Provides therapeutic interventions with residents in accordance with the treatment plan.
• Participates in the discharge planning process.
• Administers medications and keeps mandatory documentation pertaining to medication administration.
• Supervises recreation activities and outings in to the community.