ASM 245 - Practicum VI: Activities/Community Resources

1. Assess individual resident’s physical, intellectual, social, creative, spiritual and emotional needs.
   1. Evaluate assessment and reassessment tools.
   2. Propose the importance of a social history.
   3. Assess the process of charting a resident’s progress.
   4. Assess the purpose and process of attendance records.
   5. Appraise a care plan conference.
   6. List the types of activities and their appropriateness.
   7. Determine the opportunities for family involvement.
   8. Indicate how the physical, psychological, and social needs are being met in the facility therapeutic milieu.
   9. Indicate the physical environment and structure conductive to meeting resident’s needs.
2. Examine the activity coordinator’s and other department staff job descriptions and responsibilities in the daily operation of the activity department.
   1. Review each staff position, authority, and accountability.
   2. Investigate the department’s budget and fund raising activities.
   3. Characterize the development of activity programming policies and procedures within the limits of existing facilities, corporate resources and the rules and regulations.
   4. Incorporate supervisory techniques and strategies essential to an effective activity department.
   5. State reasons for interdepartmental communication.
   6. Describe the entry-level education requirements, ongoing continuing education, and in-service education for this department.
   7. Evaluate the monthly activity calendar process.
   8. Determine the importance of record keeping and documentary procedures.
   9. Distinguish among re-motivation, reminiscence and validation therapy techniques.
   10. Indicate the reasons for effective communication between department staff and residents.
   11. Assess available and appropriate community resources for long-term care residents.
   12. Evaluate the administrator’s relationship and responsibilities to the activity department.
3. Interpret state and federal regulations pertaining to the activity department.
   1. Explain all rules and regulations in appropriate manuals and documents relating to the activity department.
   2. Clarify how rules and regulations are involved in program evaluations.