Occupational Health Technician

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,

As a child I grew up in the foster care system. My formative years consisted of uncertainty and confusion since I was not able to express myself effectively to the state assigned child advocates. During my time in foster care I volunteered to care for the younger children who had special needs. As I began to care for the children especially with neurological brain damage I became intrigued by how little science seemed to know about Special Education or effective treatment. At the age of eleven I started reading peer-reviewed articles such as Neurology journal and Exceptional Children (EC) trying to adsorb everything science related that would provide answers. Several years after I aged out of the system I had a child of my own who was born with severe Autism and sensory integration disorder. My son Andrew was non-verbal for the first four years even after extensive

As a child, Down syndrome was a part of my everyday life. I was watched after every day for the first ten years of my life by a women who was also looking after her sister who had Down syndrome. To me it was nothing unusual. It wasn’t until about eighth grade that I realized that to other people it wasn’t normal, it had a negative connotation. Growing up around a person who has Down syndrome made me see things differently than others. Once I realized not everyone else’s perspectives were the same as mine I became really aware of how others treated and reacted to people with Down syndrome. Its years later and I came across a story told by a women named Bethany Van Delft about Down syndrome.

4) How will the training process be and effectively help each one of my new people to achieve greater success?

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

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

Chris Burke, an American actor rightly quotes, It’s not our disabilities, it’s our abilities that count.” Has any illness, injury, or disability affected your daily movements? Do you wish to live life to the fullest? Do you want to challenge your disability, and promote your abilities to perform everyday life activities with fluency? Then you would be needing the help of an occupational therapist.

Air monitoring requires further expertise than what the OHS Coordinator may be able to provide. An occupational hygienist is required to complete sampling via an air monitoring method. This professional will be able to advise of the level of air contaminants and the key routes of exposure to workers. They will be able to provide information in regards to controls that can reduce the hazardous air contaminants and determine whether these controls will be effective (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2015).

Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) have seven responsibilities and competencies. Their responsibilities are to assess needs, plan health education, implement health education programs, conduct evaluation, administer, serve and communicate health education. According to National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. the following responsibilities are below:

There are many as 18.2% people in US suffers from some type of mental illness,enduring conditions, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and more illnesses but those are the main ones. Mental Health is the state or quality of the mental processes that either promotes health or determines potential risks towards one well-being. Behavioral Health problems include substance use disorders. 46 percent of people have mental illness all throughout their lives. There are many of ways to get help if you or a loved one has a mental disorder.

In the rapidly changing healthcare industry, Respiratory therapists and Cardiovascular Technicians are two of many few careers that is rapidly changing and growing in today industries. Depending on the level of these positions they evaluate, diagnoses, treats, and administers care 24 hours, responding to the needs of patients; from newborns to the terminally ill. I will be discussing the both healthcare profession’s job description, working in the field, requirement to obtain degree/license, salary, and other information of about both careers.

For the indirect assessment project, The Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) said that the two most concerning problem behaviors that occur at the clinic were elopement and verbal refusal. After conducting the indirect assessment, the data was inconclusive and in my presentation, I suggested doing a full functional analysis to determine the function of the behaviors. Out of the two behaviors, I have chosen verbal refusal for the functional analysis project because it occurs at a higher rate than elopement.

A) A real entrepreneur can take an idea and that can be change in to a service or product according to the needs of certain population. Because of this characteristic economists said that “entrepreneurship is becoming an important agent in the growth and wellbeing of the society”.an entrepreneur is motivated by family or society. They offer new completion and also promotes improved productivity. They can recognize and resolves social problems on a large scale. To create social value entrepreneurs act as a change agent for the society like designing and distributing new approaches. Entrepreneur react very quickly and effectively to the change so that they can take the advantage of opportunities. If they can’t capable of quick action it will be result on their process and success. Social entrepreneurs are stepping to solve the problems.

I have had numerous opportunities to volunteer and work with children of all abilities. Many of these children had independent or concurrent learning disabilities, emotional problems, and/or behavioural problems. I met these individuals through organizations I volunteered or worked for, programs I organized, and through summer camps where I was a counsellor that all catered children with disabilities. I also have personal relationships with children of family friends.

I encourage you to scrutinize everything and search for errors, inconsistencies, etc. Once approved we can test the training on one site, make necessary changes , then release it to all employees.