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  • Return to work is communication and teamwork
    • Communicating with healthcare providers
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      • Keeping in touch while the employee is off work
      • Welcoming the employee back to work
  • Returning to work/staying at work
    • 1. Provide support and stay in contact
    • 2. Provide a work assessment
    • 3. Understand return to work/stay at work challenges
    • 4. Explore job accommodation ideas
    • 5. Develop a return to work plan
    • 6. Monitor the return to work
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      • Adaptive technology assessment
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• Healthcare providers
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    • Assessing cognitive abilities
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    • Professional assessments
    • Understand the job characteristics
    • Using information from the National Occupation Classification System
  • Assisting patients in changing work and looking for work
    • A change of work priorities
  • Cancer’s impact on work and strategies
    • Bleeding problems
    • Breathing problems
    • Changes in bowel and bladder function
    • Changes in mood
    • Changes in physical appearance and body image
    • Changes in skin and nails
    • Cognitive challenges
    • Emotional and psychological impact
    • Fatigue
    • Hearing impairment
    • Hot flashes
    • Impaired communication abilities
    • Infections
    • Lymphedema
    • Mobility impairments
    • Nausea and vomiting
    • Nerve damage
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    • Pain
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    • Visual impairment
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  • Returning to work is communication and teamwork
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      • Encourage contact with their workplace
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    • Monitoring progress after return to work
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    • iCanWork: Steps to support cancer survivors with return to work
      • 1. Understand factors that can impact work
      • 10. Monitor the work situation
      • 2. Assess function
      • 3. Understand job demands
      • 4. Identify, treat, and refer to support
      • 5. Encourage survivors to take control
      • 6. Identify and foster Workplace Supports
      • 7. Contribute to the development of a return to work plan
      • 8. Prepare survivors for imminent return to work
      • 9. Manage work expectations
      • Communicate about return to work
    • Key questions to guide a return to work plan
  • Roles of professionals
    • Completing private insurance forms
  • Timing of return to work
  • Workplace accommodations
    • Adaptive technology
      • Adaptive technology assessment
      • Positional requirements (ergonomics)
    • Job accommodations for cancer-specific issues
      • Job accommodations for other disabilities including cancer
    • Negotiating work accommodations
  • Workplace wellbeing
    • Changing the work/workplace situation
    • Changing unhelpful thoughts and feelings
    • Changing ways to manage negative work stress
    • Exercise tips to improve fitness and readiness for work
    • Negotiating healthy boundaries at work
      • Assertiveness: More honest and balanced relationships
• iCanWork: Steps to return to work for Cancer Survivors
• iCanwork! Vocational Rehabilitation Research Study
• Interactive Tools
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  • Identify and challenge your unhelpful thoughts
  • Tracking your fatigue level
• Looking for a family physician from a rural or remote area of Canada to contribute to the development of an e-course
• Looking for a family physician from a rural or remote area of Canada to contribute to the development of an e-course
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  • Assertiveness: More honest and balanced relationships
  • Assessing job demands
    • Estimate a typical workday
    • Review your job description for essential and non-essential tasks
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    • Assessing your cognitive abilities
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    • Pulling it all together: Create your job assessment by comparing your abilities to work demands
    • Test your readiness to return to work
      • Professional assessments
    • Understand your job characteristics
    • Using information from the National Occupation Classification System
    • When am I ready to go back to work?
  • Assessment of your work abilities
  • Cancer’s impact on work and strategies
    • Bleeding problems
    • Breathing problems
    • Changes in bowel and bladder function
    • Changes in mood
    • Changes in physical appearance
    • Changes in skin and nails
    • Cognitive challenges
    • Depression
    • Emotional and psychological impact
    • Fatigue
      • Nutritional Management of Cancer-Related Fatigue Post-Treatment
    • Hearing impairment
    • Hot flashes
    • Impaired communication abilities
    • Infections
    • Lymphedema
    • Mobility impairment
    • Nausea and vomiting
      • Nutritional Management of Nausea During Cancer Treatment
    • Nerve damage
    • Other challenges to nutrition and feeding
    • Pain
    • Physical symptoms
    • Seizures
    • Sleep disturbances
    • Stress and anxiety
    • Visual impairment
  • Caregivers
    • A change in the caretaker role
    • Employment insurance compassionate care benefit
    • Fatigue management strategies
    • Financial support
    • Financial support for taking time off
    • Job accommodation options
    • Strategies for being a caretaker of a cancer survivor
    • Your rights at work
  • Changing jobs and looking for work
    • Informational interviewing
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  • Communication and teamwork
    • Communicating with your healthcare team
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    • Communicating with your workplace
      • Back at work
      • Key questions to guide a return to work plan
    • Connections with your co-workers
    • How to negotiate work accommodations
    • Return to work practices and policies at your workplace
    • Roles of professionals
    • Talking to your employer when diagnosed
    • Talking to your employer when you are off work
    • Talking with colleagues when you get back to work
    • Who gets to know: How to exercise your power of “disclosure”
    • You are ready to consider returning to work
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  • Finances and disability
    • Government programs
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    • Short-term and long-term disability benefits: the process
  • Job Search
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  • Links to services and resources
    • Employment and vocational rehabilitation programs
  • Return to work
  • Returning to work / staying at work
    • 1. Understand factors that can impact work
    • 10. Monitor the work situation
    • 2. Assess functions
    • 3. Understand job demands
    • 4. Identify and ask for support
    • 5. Take control
    • 6. Identify and foster workplace supports
    • 7. Contribute to the development of your return to work plan
    • 8. Prepare for a return to work
    • 9. Manage work expectations
    • Communicate about return to work
  • Should I stop working?
    • Should I retire?
  • Using the ABC model to manage your anxiety
  • Workplace accommodations
    • Accommodation responsibilities
    • Adaptive aids and technology
      • Supportive ergonomic positioning
    • Job accommodations for cancer-specific issues
      • Job accommodations for other disabilities including cancer
    • Positional requirements (ergonomics)
    • Professional adaptive technology assessment
  • Workplace wellbeing
    • Change your reactions to negative work stress
    • Change your unhelpful thoughts and feelings
      • Fill out your own “Changing unhelpful thoughts” worksheet
      • Unhelpful thought patterns
    • Changing your job situation
    • Exercise tips to improve your fitness and get ready for work
    • Negotiating healthy boundaries at work
    • Ways to help you engage in your work
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