ADVANCE Outlook: OT

What's Hot on Twitter 11/2

Jill Glomstad — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:52:00 GMT

Are you on Twitter? ADVANCE for OTs is! Our Twitter updates can keep you current on the newest features on our website, the latest news and stories about occupational therapy in the popular media, and issues in health care that affect you and your colleagues....(read more)

What OTs Are Reading: Popular Content 10/27

Jill Glomstad — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:03:00 GMT

There's a ton of great content on our website -- so where do you start? Each week, we'll blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading on www.advanceweb.com/OT ! Tops this week is our webcast on Sensory...(read more)

Hot on Twitter this Week 10/19

Jill Glomstad — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:04:00 GMT

What OTs Are Reading: This Week's Popular Content on OT Advance Online

Jill Glomstad — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:42:00 GMT

There's a ton of great content on our website -- so where do you start? Each week, we'll blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading on www.advanceweb.com/OT ! Our new blog, From Inside the Puzzle:...(read more)

What's Hot on Twitter this Week

Jill Glomstad — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:11:00 GMT

And Just Who Should Be Doing a ‘Health Care Professional’s’ Job?

EJ Brown — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:27:00 GMT

A hitherto inert definition embedded in the enforcement policy manual of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has me wondering what in the world the commissioners were thinking when they created the rule. The EEOC enforces the Americans...(read more)

What OTs Are Reading: Popular Content on OT Advance Online

Jill Glomstad — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:06:00 GMT

There's a ton of great content on www.advanceweb.com/ot -- so where do you start? Each week, we'll blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading! ADVANCE's 2009 Salary Survey: http://occupational-therapy.advanceweb.com/article/advances-2009-salary-survey.aspx...(read more)

What's Hot on Twitter

Jill Glomstad — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:12:00 GMT

Check Out Our New Specialty Sites!

Jessica LaGrossa — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:28:00 GMT

ADVANCE is pleased to introduce our new Specialty Spotlights on our Web site! On Sept. 1 we unveiled 9 new specialty sites which highlight many of the most popular practice areas and interests in occupational therapy. Each specialty site contains information...(read more)

The Time to Move Is Now

EJ Brown — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:32:00 GMT

Are you frustrated and a little scared wondering who is going to be paying your doctor and hospital bills this time next year? I am. And most people I talk to these days don't even want to think about it. That’s because they can’t see where Congress is...(read more)

Bradley Cooper and Breaking Bad

Susan Coyle — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:27:00 GMT

Bradley Cooper, one of the stars of The Hangover , recently told Entertainment Weekly that Breaking Bad was his "must watch" television show. Coincidentally, the ADVANCE editorial team added Breaking Bad to our "must watch" list when it first came out...(read more)

Calling All Canadians... For Phone Interviews

Susan Coyle — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:50:00 GMT

The cover story for ADVANCE 's June 22 issue will examine how occupational therapy in the U.S. is different from occupational therapy in other countries, such as Australia, Great Britain and Canada. I am looking for an OT who has practiced both in Canada...(read more)

AM-PAC, Evidence-based Practice and the Vision

Jill Glomstad — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:26:00 GMT

Recently, the American Occupational Therapy Association endorsed Boston University's Activity Measure for Post Acute Care (AM-PAC), a tool to measure client outcomes in three categories of function-mobility, daily activities and cognition. The assessment...(read more)

Conference update: State of the Association

EJ Brown — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The shrinking economy began hitting the association hard last year, and it continues to challenge AOTA's financial resources unrelentingly, according to Treasurer Saburi Imara, whose annual report at the national conference in Houston last week was sobering....(read more)

The Slagle Lecture: New Insight into OT's Ongoing Struggle for Recognition

EJ Brown — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:24:00 GMT

I have been studying the history and concept of occupational therapy for the past 21 years, mentored mostly by people like the late Helen Hopkins, the late Gail Fidler, ADVANCE columnist Jane Sorensen, and Texas educator Kitty Reed. The founders' names,...(read more)