The Green Pasture Of Occupational Therapists

By Marylou Forbes


When discerning what path to take in the future, you will be needing a serious evaluation of what you want to do and become. It is basically important for you to lead a fulfilling career since it will be your lifetime engagement. So by the end of high school, you should already be able to decide what road to take. This way, when you go to college, things would not be hard for you.

Now, if you have some interest in stuff like treating disability and such as that of the physical or the psychological aspect of people, then you might like to become an OT. This way, you can become one of the occupational therapists in Brooks. But then unlike being a doctor who is up to treating people with operations or medical prescriptions, yours would be manipulation.

So to speak, this field if work actually does treatment, assessment or evaluation of patients in both the psychiatric and physical aspects. The goal of this job is to actually prevent the occurring disabilities to develop and promote independent functions in all the aspects of daily life. Now, the individuals who perform this duties are called occupational therapists or OT.

Speaking of the work of OTs, it is with people of any age. What they do is that they assist them in their pursuit to battle their illness. Basically, it is a disability which could have been trigerred by factors like psychological or physical sickness, accidents, or aging. Given this, the work is somehow similar to that of nursing, but not quite.

The job would be more on helping patients out to overcome their illnesses and fight it out by assisting them in their plight and providing them with a diagnosis which is like a set of exercises and activities which are needed to be done in order to counter the attack of their disease. With this, you are like a doctor who prescribes their medication. But then, there is actually a wider range of career which is open for you if you are a graduate of this course.

So here is a list of fields and jobs which you could take as an occupational therapist. You can basically, work with young children, adults, or old people in various areas like physical rehabilitation, learning disability, mental health services, research posts, care management, pediatrics, and many more. That aside, you can also work in settings like schools, prisons, hospitals, community centers, charities, voluntary agencies, and many more.

However, for you to get to work, you need to be registered. Not only that, you need to also have what it takes to be a good and successful OT and for that to happen, you need to be determined, patient, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable. But above all, you should commit yourself to your patients and see to it that they get the fulfilled life.

Now, concerning the demand for this job, the areas of health and social services are the ones who needed this profession the most. That is why OTs can usually be found in hospitals. But then sometimes, they tend to their patients in their homes to check on their condition. Given this, they give them a diagnosis with a new set of medication they need.

But if you want to climb up a high post in this field, you can pursue research or specialist jobs. And when you climb up seniority, you can merge these two together. However, if you like an alternative, you also may opt for a teaching or a management career.




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