Thinking about quitting occupational therapy school was a huge issue for me throughout my Master’s program. I feel like I have to give it a little bit more attention than just one post about not failing fieldwork. This post is more general about how I felt during my first semester of grad school. My hope is that […]
I was inspired to write this post about interventions for unilateral neglect as I was remembering my first evaluation with this condition on my own (after grad school and at my first “real job”). I realized that it was much more of a challenge for me to figure out on the fly the optimal interventions […]
You always want to be sure that what you’re working on with your patients requires truly skilled occupational therapy and also provides them with the best possible outcome. We also need to ensure our services are skilled and medically necessary; that they require an OT to complete the intervention (we want to avoid a denial at all costs!). […]
I don’t know how many times I Googled “I failed my Level II Fieldwork” or “Didn’t pass OT fieldwork” and “Am I going to fail fieldwork?” and any other variation you can think of during the course of both my Level II Fieldwork semesters. And I know I wasn’t alone. Ask any of your classmates and they […]
You Are Not Alone… First things first: you certainly aren’t the only new grad that feels this way. I’ve had this conversation with countless new grads as well as seasoned practitioners and they have all said the same thing. Many of us start our Level II Fieldwork and new jobs wondering if OT school taught […]
I often ask myself this very question when I see a new patient. Every OT has those days where you have a tougher time than usual figuring out what interventions to do with your patient. I use the interventions in this post when I feel like switching things up for my current patients in order […]
Okay, so I totally get that we as OT’s have a great average national salary coming in at approximately $78,810 according to U.S. News Careers. But coming out of school with $90,000+ in massive student loan debt plus the fact a lot of that is taken out for taxes means it can still feel like […]