Becoming An Occupational Therapist

Hey I’m charley price I am a senior at Johnson county high school. In the past month we were supposed to complete ten hours with a mentor for our senior project. With that being said I was not able to do so. Between working three jobs, school hours, and raising my sister I couldn’t go out and meet with a mentor. Therefore I have been doing research for the past month. I have enjoyed researching different occupational therapist I have also called and chatted with a few myself. I have learned much more than I could ever imagine. We discussed the career requirements, how much money I will make, the flexibility of the hours, why I should continue and go for it, and what are the pros and cons of being an occupational therapists.

My career goal is to become an Occupational Therapist and specialize in pediatrics. I want to specialize in pediatrics because I have always loved to be around children and be able to help them in whatever they need. Also, pediatrics is important to me because kids are our future and if I can help kids for their future I will be glad to do so. Helping kids become more independent on their activities of daily living makes me happy because I am helping them to become more independent and make them feel like they can accomplish anything. In order to be able to do this I have to get a Master Degree and I plan on getting this degree from Loma Linda University. In five years I see myself working in the Occupational Therapy setting and working with kids. I see myself, making others

Occupational Therapist enables people to engage and participate in everyday activities trough occupation. The latter role is not only applicable for individuals but also groups or populations. Eventually, with the increase of the aging population, expensive health care services, occupational therapists will have to incorporate health promotion practices into their actual roles.To cope with this phenomenon and to better meet older adult’s needs, the occupational therapist 's role would benefit from being enlarged.Expanding their knowledge and their practices in promoting health will facilitate their work in other domains.This will help them to shift from an individual to a population approach. To achieve that transition, therapists should be more involved in decisions taken by politicians regarding health and to develop services and programs that promote well-being, health, and quality of life. Also, collaboration with other fields such as schools, workplaces, industries, deputies and organizations will help them spread strategies that promote awareness and enable the population to control and maintain an independent healthy lifestyle. Also, therapists understand that the environment can be a crucial factor on health population. Therefore ,they can put pressure on the government to make public places more accessible to disabled people such as providing the subway of a wheelchair ramp and adapt crosswalks to the blind by adding pedestrian signals that include speakers at

I chose occupational therapy as a career for many reasons. I feel fulfilled when I help others. I want to enjoy my job and not work for money. Moreover, I want to help patients reach their goals because the outcomes make me feel proud. When my brother was little, he had a hard time grasping the pen to write. An Occupational Therapist used to come to our house a few times a week. I would see the therapist try to help my brother write. My mother recently told me that when I was younger, I said, "I want to be just like that therapist."

The name of the society changed in 1923, due to hospitals wanting a national directory of qualified occupational therapists. There now was a minimal standard of training that had to be met before an individual was put in the directory (AOTA, 2009). The name was changed to the American Occupational Therapy Association. The American Medical Association worked with the American Occupational Therapy Association starting in 1933 on getting improved education programs for occupational therapists (AOTA, 2009).

As an occupational therapy practitioner, it is important to understand how to modify homes to fit an individual with a disability. In this paper, I will share what I believe are the best modifications to my own 2-story home for an individual in a wheelchair including the entrance and half-bath, kitchen, stairs,

The intent of this scholarship is for financial need. Recently my step dad has change jobs which has cut his income significantly. This scholarship would really help paying for college, since I will also have 2 other siblings in college at the same time as me. I will be furthering my academic education at California Baptist University and will majoring in photography. Attending Cal Baptist will give me the best education as well as provide me with a Christian education. It is very important to me that I will have a Christian education and that I will be surrounded by a family like community. Some of my goals for the future are to become a photographer, learn to get out of my comfort zone and challenge myself, and get an internship over one

I have had many experiences that may have an impact on my career as an Occupational Therapist. When my grandfather suffered a stroke in 2009, I watched therapist closely and asked many questions so that when he was discharged I would be able to help out at home. Occupational therapist helped my grandfather learn how to do basic daily activities again which he could no longer do due to the stroke. Going through this life changing experience I believe will have an impact on my career as an occupational therapist. The compassion and knowledge shown to my family and I during this time is something I can use when I begin my career as an occupational Therapist. When my granddad was in the rehab center after suffering from a massive stroke I closely

“The best days are the days that I get to a patient’s home and I am told that he or she has been able to perform a task that in the past was impossible.” -Dr. Tom Wright (“Occupational Therapist”). If helping out people to let them do what they once thought was impossible is something that makes a person feel happy and great, becoming an occupational therapist might be a job he or she would like to consider. Choosing a job is a huge choice in someone’s life, so he or she needs to make many decisions.

My long-range career goal is to become an occupational therapist specializing in pediatric care. In order to achieve this goal, I will first attend a four-year college or university to receive my bachelor’s degree. Next, I will enter an accredited occupational therapy program to earn a master’s degree or both a master’s and doctorate degree. While acquiring my master’s, I will complete the required 24 weeks of supervised fieldwork. The final step is to pass the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy and become state licensed.

Through experience, I learned how to interact with patients and family members as an occupational therapist in sub acute setting, espeicailly how to deliver message to family member professionally. I Also, I witness the necessity of cooperation in PT/OT/SLP and other health professionals to make optimal outcome of patients. I have learnd how restorative FOR, biomechanical FOR, rehabilitative FOR, PNF are being utilized into therapy sessions to patients with orthopedic, neurological conditions.

As an international student from Taiwan, chances are I already carry different perspectives in terms of what role of an Occupational Therapist is in our daily life or what specialty an Occupational Therapist should possess, let alone the cultural difference. For example, there is a phenomenon, at least in Taiwan, where many people treat medical personnel like a babysitter and lack the ability to distinguish medical personnel’s specialty. As I pursue OT degree with such background, I believe I can enrich the program, and even the entire OT field, by unveiling the issues, taking Taiwan as the reflection, that other countries might undergo likewise or confront someday; the profession can be enhanced by exploring both common and new issues.

Everyone is a novice at the beginning, the process to becoming an expert involves life long learning (Harris & Duncan, 2009). In relation to occupational therapy a new graduate is considered a novice. As a novice new graduates have skills in finding information they need and have a good grounding in current occupational therapy theories (Robertson, 2012). However a novice works with a high cognitive load which may challenge then working memory, resulting in errors (Ladyshewsky, 2009). Where a novice will be relying on procedural reasoning until experience is gained, an expert uses conditional reasoning which is a multidimensional process (Fleming, 1991; Robertson, 2012) To transition from novice to expert requires the new graduate to gain

Life is about moments. The moment I found the profession of occupational therapy I knew it was the profession for me. A couple months later, I started observing multiple different Occupational Therapists at McKenna Farms Therapy Services and instantly fell in love. The therapists were very open about their experiences being a therapist. They also taught me how their sessions were broken up and their most effective note taking method. Some of the therapists would even quiz me on what the purpose of specific task was, which helped me learn. Not only did McKenna Farms have occupational therapist, but they also had physical therapist, and speech therapist. This allowed me to witness how these different types of therapist could collaborate and work

My academic goals are to go to Ohio State University and get bachelor's degree in criminology and music (vocal). To do those things, I have to have money for things like room and board, food, books, and supplies. This scholarship will help me reach my academic goals because it would give me an opportunity to actually have a job that I am passionate about. Music is my passion in life, I want to have a voice in today’s world through something that everyone loves. I need to learn how to professionally sing, how to get into record companies, and how to play a couple of instruments for me to be unique. For criminology, it is my backup, but it is additionally something that I am passionate about. Ever since I was little I wanted to be in politics