A Respiratory Therapist

Occupational therapy assistant is my dream career. They help people live a normal life again without any assistance of other people. The help people enhance, improve, develop, and recover the skills use for working or doing daily average tasks. OTA’s usually work under the direction of occupational therapists, and they still get involved with providing therapy for patients. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, occupational therapy assistants help patients do therapeutic activities. For example, they help patients to stretch or do other exercises. OTA’s also help children who have developmental disabilities to play activities that helps stimulate coordination and learn to socialize. They teach disable people to use special equipment,

The growing need for Respiratory Therapists is in high demand due to the increasing numbers of elderly people, environment; such as asthma, smoking and COPD, treatments for cardiopulmonary diseases, and premature babies. In May 2008 Respiratory Therapists accounted for about 105,900 jobs, 81 percent worked in hospitals. The numbers of therapists are expected to continue growing up to 21 percent from 2008-2018. Due to the high demand of jobs in the medical field, you will always have a job to

During my time in the respiratory ward, I found that repetition and experience made me feel more confident about my tasks, enabling me to be more effective and efficient in the workplace.

Your speed doesn’t matter, forward is forward. No matter where you are, life can give you a second chance. So, within every step back it is possible to take a step forward. No one is ever alone. Someone is always there to help when feelings of hopeless negatives sets in. Physical Therapist Assistants are necessary in hopeless situations to give you an ability to continue moving forward onto your full potential. A Physical Therapist Assistant can help you to manage someone else’s life, so that they can continue with life among the trouble that they have faced.

When I graduated from high school I originally planned on being an Athletic Trainer. After being accepted into not only Shenandoah University but the pre-admit AT program which is a three plus two program, I was going to graduate with a masters degree in five years. In my sophomore year at Shenandoah I realized that I did not want to be an Athletic Trainer. I began looking into what careers were out there that I could pursue with an Exercise Science degree. After talking my advisor, who was an athletic training for most of her career, she asked if I ever looked into Occupational Therapy. Once looking into the career I talked to my Aunt who worked in many fields as an Occupational Therapist and learning more about the career I was set on pursuing

Time flows like a river and you find yourself not thinking the way you used to as a child. As I grew older, my dreams and goals changed as well as my mindset on how to achieve those aspirations. Mercyhurst University’s Public Health Program is the main step toward helping me achieve my career goal of becoming a Registered Health Information Technician. I’d like to define success as many achievements and accomplishments, as well as the coming of knowledge for that which was unknown to one’s self. Therefore, there should never be an ending to a success story. It was when I graduated as a medical assistant that sparked the realization to what field I was most interested in.

To serve in the military is a noble act in one’s life to defend our nation and their freedoms. However, what does one do after the military to continue serving. This author states after serving 20 years in the United States Army as a human resources sergeant. He chose the profession of occupational therapy in a veteran’s hospital after he graduates as an Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) to serve the military and their families due to the fact that he is a veteran himself. After serving 3 tours in Afghanistan and understanding the effects of war does to Soldiers and their families. From reintegration after a deployment and transitioning out of the military and rejoining the civilian population. Find themselves under educated and unable

Physical Therapist/Occupational Therapist’s careers are on the rise! According to my interest in adaptive technology, and my passion for helping others, a career as a Physical Therapist/Occupational Therapist (PTOT) appears to be a very positive, and a rewarding career choice for me! As a result, as a PTOT I will be working with new adaptive technologies and career advancement, reveling in ultimate job security, and new methodologies, open to growing employment opportunities, experiencing unlimited options, and the rewards of helping others to be healthy, healthy and knowing I had a part in a their recovery is key. However, as I embark on this career path as a PTOT that I have considered all the positive attributes, and the negative

The most interesting part of the job to me was that it had such a positive outlook on job growth. Employment of physical therapists is expected to increase 39 percent from 2010 to 2020, much faster than the average for all occupations. Demand for physical therapy services will come, in large part, from the aging baby boomers, who are staying active later in life than previous generations did. I consider this to be perfect timing with my graduation being in the prime of the growth in this occupation.

Respiratory therapy is a growing field, driven by the aging population and rise in respiratory ailments and cardiopulmic diseases. Statistics say our population is aging, so not only will respiratory therapists always have work, but also advancement placement opportunities as the baby boomers began to retire and become patients. Respiratory therapists will be in demand for a long time, and it is Obvious what happens to wages when demand exceeds supply. In 2000, respiratory therapists were making approximately $38,000 – in 2001, of nearly 83,000 respiratory therapists employed, half of them earned over $48,000. It is expected that within the next ten years the respiratory field will grow not just as fast, but at a rate of twice as fast as the average growth of most occupations. By 2010, the Bureau of Labor Services statistics predicts the demand of respiratory therapists to increase by one third. Judging by most graduates of the

What is professional writing? Professional writing is a type of written communication that consists of professional terminology, and is commonly used in medical workplaces. Common places where this writing would be used is doctors’ offices, hospitals, eye doctors, physical therapy offices, dentist offices, and pretty much any medical office you could find this. An example of professional writing in any of these settings and probably the most common would be writing in a patients file that show progress from the last time that they were in.

However, to hold respiratory therapist to a high standard and to strive to professionalism managers need to adjust to the new changes. New guidelines are moving towards having a bachelor’s degree by 2015 to 2020. Managers will be facing challenges trying to balance the need within the organization and staff. They will have to seek opportunities to keep informed changes that will happen, as respiratory therapists roles have been expanding. The leadership have to support their staff so, managers will have to engage workers and finding innovative solutions and provide training and competency. Documentation needed to assure safe and effective for staff expanding roles and new responsibilities.

It is important to monitor patient during surgery at all times the reason for this is to monitor the patient’s oxygen concentration, pulse oximeter, blood pressure, electrocardiogram (ECG) and capnograph (Levine & Govindaraj, 2013). This is to ensure that the patient is safe during the surgery therefore when an emergency occurs it will be handled quicker by both the anaesthetist and the support of the perioperative practitioner (Levine & Govindaraj, 2013). It is the perioperative practitioner’s duty to ensure that all monitors are working before and during the surgery by checking the machine consistently (Conway & Sutherland,

I felt that she was telling me that it was my responsibility to finish charting before I left. I thought it was not right. I went up to CCC to help them even though I didn't want to go because I have not had official training since they changed to all computer charting. It shouldn’t be my responsibility.

My first clinical day took place on September 16th, 2015 at Saint Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, New Jersey. My preceptor Maria Brilhante, MSN, RN, is the manager of three units. The units that she manages are medical- surgical, bariatric, and stroke. The day began with me observing what goes on the unit during shift- to- shift handoff communication. I was introduced to the staff of all three units. On this day the unit was going through their last day of renovation. Maria had to wear a hat of an interior designer for one of her unit where here main office is located. We laughed and joked about it. Other mangers and physicians commended her on being able to still effectively managing her unit through all the chaos. The reality of it was that the unit needed to be altered to meet patient centered care and also equipment had to be positioned a certain way along with the nurses’ station being relocated so that nurses will be able to access them better. Before this day, I had not realized how important these little thing were in good patient outcome.