Prevocational Evaluation - An assessment, prior to work training, of the client's potential as a worker, giving special attention to one's work attitudes and habits, and evidence of personal responsibility. The nurse principally responsible for the nursing care of a given patient. The primary care nurse develops and implements a care plan, participates in conferences, collaborates with the patient, the rehabilitation team, and the family, as well as evaluating the outcome of care. By being unable to think of possible solutions, they may respond by doing nothing. It is possible for the evaluation staff to vary all the customary conditions of the real job in an effort to discover difficulties that prevent the client from working effectively.
Competitive employment is defined as employment with a competitive wage and in a regular workplace.
No formally structured extra supervision or assistance is provided outside of that normally expected for the job. Competitive academic enrollment means participating in regular course work in a mainstream curriculum at an accredited institution of education. This is enrollment in a formal vocational training program with a goal of competitive employment. Participation in a nonpaid, but formally organized and routine, therapeutic work situation. Recreational or day activity program.