International Psychosocial Oncology Society Cancer and Work Workshop slide deck presentation available
October 28, 2019
Overview of Cancer and Work with RTW and JA tools
Language / La langue:
- Survivors
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- Returning to work / staying at work
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- 1. Understand your current abilities
- 2. Understand your challenges
- 3. Communicate with your healthcare team
- 4. Consider strategies to improve your work abilities
- 5. Identify supports
- 6. Develop a formal return to work plan
- 7. Prepare for the first days, weeks, months back at work
- 8. Monitor your progress
- 9. Manage expectations at your workplace
- Cancer's impact on work & strategies
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- Physical symptoms
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- Fatigue
- Sleep disturbances
- Pain
- Nerve damage
- Lymphedema
- Hot flashes
- Breathing problems
- Nausea and vomiting
- Other challenges to nutrition and feeding
- Infections
- Bleeding problems
- Changes in skin and nails
- Changes in bowel and bladder function
- Visual impairment
- Hearing impairment
- Impaired communication abilities
- Mobility impairment
- Changes in physical appearance
- Seizures
- Cognitive challenges
- Emotional and psychological impact
- Return to work is communication and teamwork
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- Communicating with your healthcare team
- Communicating with your workplace
- Communicating with your insurance provider
- Roles of professionals
- Assessment of your work abilities
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- When am I ready to go back to work?
- Assessment of your physical abilities
- Assessing your cognitive abilities
- Psychological self-assessment tools
- Test your readiness to return to work
- Professional assessments
- Assessing job demands
- Understand your job characteristics
- Complete a task analysis worksheet
- Using information from the national occupation classification System
- Pulling it all together: Create your Job assessment
- Finances and disability
- Workplace accommodations
- Workplace wellbeing
- Changing jobs and looking for work
- Caregivers
- Law, policy, and practice information
- Links to services and resources
- Tell us what you think
- Events
- Research
- References
- Healthcare providers
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- Returning to work/staying at work
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- Timing of return to work
- Helping patients prepare for returning to work
- Return to work steps
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- 1. Understand current work abilities
- 2. Assess functioning
- 3. Understand and address return to work challenges
- 4. Understand the demands of the job
- 5. Communicate about return to work
- 6. Encourage survivors to take control of their rehabilitation
- 7. Identify supports that will enable survivors to work
- 8. Develop a formal return to work plan
- 9. Encourage patients to prepare for going back to work
- 10. Monitor progress after returning to work
- 11. Help manage expectations at the workplace
- Cancer’s impact on work and strategies
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- Physical symptoms
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- Fatigue
- Sleep disturbances
- Pain
- Nerve damage
- Lymphedema
- Hot flashes
- Breathing problems
- Nausea and vomiting
- Other challenges to eating and nutrition
- Infections
- Bleeding problems
- Changes in skin and nails
- Changes in bowel and bladder function
- Visual impairment
- Hearing impairment
- Impaired communication abilities
- Mobility impairments
- Changes in physical appearance and body image
- Seizures
- Cognitive challenges
- Emotional and psychological impact
- Returning to work is communication and teamwork
- Assessment of work abilities
- Workplace accommodations
- Workplace wellbeing
- Finances and disability
- Assisting patients in changing work and looking for work
- Caregivers
- Law, policy, and practice information
- Links to services and resources
- Tell us what you think
- Events
- Research
- References
- Employers
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- Returning to work/staying at work
- Cancer's impact on work
-
- Physical symptoms
-
- Fatigue
- Sleep disturbances
- Pain
- Nerve damage
- Lymphedema
- Hot flashes
- Breathing problems
- Nausea and vomiting
- Other challenges to eating and nutrition
- Infections
- Bleeding problems
- Changes in skin and nails
- Changes in bowel and bladder function
- Visual impairment
- Hearing impairment
- Impaired communication abilities
- Mobility impairments
- Changes in physical appearance and body image
- Seizures
- Cognitive challenges
- Emotional and psychological impact
- Return to work is communication and teamwork
- Assessment of work abilities
- Workplace accommodations
- Caregivers
- Law, policy, and practice information
- Tell us what you think
- Events
- Research
- References
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