Occupational therapy helps people to overcome or maintain what impairs them in everyday life.
Listening to what the client needs, then providing a safe way for the client to perform daily activities. Giving clients the skills that are needed to function that have been lost due to work related injury, aging, disease, surgery, physical and mental disabilities.
Explain your interest in becoming an Occupational Therapy Assistant.
I really want to help people. A friend told how occupational therapy worked with her hands after being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, to help keep her hands mobile. I did some reading on occupational therapy and found it very interesting. I decide to job shadow occupational therapy in a hospital setting. I was fascinated with the …show more content…
The Occupational Therapist performs an evaluation of the patient and provide a treatment plant for the client. Assistants follow the treatment plan.
Identify where OTA’s work.
Occupational Therapy Assistants work in: Hospitals, Out-patient clinics, Schools, Hospice, Hand clinics, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Rehab centers and Home health care.
Identify the types clients that would be treated by and OTA.
A person who is recovering from surgery. A person who has a work related injury. Anyone with developmental disabilities. A person who has a disease. Someone who has depression. A person who has had a stroke.
If you were to complete the OTA program explain future professional goals.
I want to work with the population that best fits with my personality, whether that is children, the elderly or one of the other areas of occupational therapy. My first choice for a population to work with would be the elderly. I want to be the best OTA that I possibly can be, providing encouragement and support to each individual. I would also like to bring some of my horticultural skills to use as an
Listening to what the client needs, then providing a safe way for the client to perform daily activities. Giving clients the skills that are needed to function that have been lost due to work related injury, aging, disease, surgery, physical and mental disabilities.
Explain your interest in becoming an Occupational Therapy Assistant.
I really want to help people. A friend told how occupational therapy worked with her hands after being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, to help keep her hands mobile. I did some reading on occupational therapy and found it very interesting. I decide to job shadow occupational therapy in a hospital setting. I was fascinated with the …show more content…
The Occupational Therapist performs an evaluation of the patient and provide a treatment plant for the client. Assistants follow the treatment plan.
Identify where OTA’s work.
Occupational Therapy Assistants work in: Hospitals, Out-patient clinics, Schools, Hospice, Hand clinics, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Rehab centers and Home health care.
Identify the types clients that would be treated by and OTA.
A person who is recovering from surgery. A person who has a work related injury. Anyone with developmental disabilities. A person who has a disease. Someone who has depression. A person who has had a stroke.
If you were to complete the OTA program explain future professional goals.
I want to work with the population that best fits with my personality, whether that is children, the elderly or one of the other areas of occupational therapy. My first choice for a population to work with would be the elderly. I want to be the best OTA that I possibly can be, providing encouragement and support to each individual. I would also like to bring some of my horticultural skills to use as an