Occupational Therapists

Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

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Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.

Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.

Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.

Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.

Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.

Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.

Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.

Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.

Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.

Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.

Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.

Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.

Conduct research in occupational therapy.

Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.

Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.

Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.

Adaptive cutlery

Adjustable beds

Alternative computer keyboards

Braille printers

Computer switch interfaces

Drill presses

Electric knives

Electric wheelchairs

Electronic blood pressure units

Exercise balls

Gait and transfer belts

Goniometers

Hoists

Joy sticks

Laptop computers

Lathes

Lift chairs

Looms

Manual blood pressure cuffs

Mechanical stethoscopes

Orthotics

Personal computers

Personal digital assistants PDA

Portable scanning pens

Power drills

Power sanders

Pressure care garments

Pulleys

Resistive exercise bands

Saws

Scooters

Sewing machines

Single-cut mill saw files

Soldering irons

Splints

Switch use tools

Tongue switches

Trackballs

Trackpads

Video cameras

Video magnifiers

Voice output communication aids

Weights

Wheelchairs

Wheeled walkers

Wobble switches

BillingTracker

Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR System

Casamba Smart

Computer drawing software

Crick Software Clicker 4

Duxbury Braille Translator

Email software

Facebook

FileMaker Pro

Internet browser software

Language arts educational software

Lexrotech LxPediatric

Math educational software

Mayer-Johnson Boardmaker

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Word

Music software

OpenOffice WRITER

Physical education educational software

Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite

Science educational software

Screen magnification software

Screen reader software

Social studies educational software

Special education educational software

Speech recognition software

Spreadsheet software

Synapse Adaptive Connect Outloud

Tactile graphic production kits software

Text reader software

Text scanning software

Text to speech software

Word processing software

Occupational Therapist

You shouldn't go into something like that, you don't have the compassion for that type of work.

Melanie Dumbris

Occupational Therapist

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Medicine

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Melanie Dumbris

Occupational Therapist

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Medicine

Non-Profit Organizations

Helping People

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

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