As the time gets closer that I will be finished with my academic work I am getting more and more nervous about fieldwork. Even though I have been working as a COTA for almost 8 years I wonder if I will make a good OTR. I wonder if I have learned enough to be competent, I wonder if I will remember everything I learn when I get out into ...

I hope that everyone had a happy and safe 4th of July. With the holiday over my stress level has increased. I picked up some extra hours for the month of July to cover a co-workers vacation and in two weeks I start back to school. With these new hours I am working in a new practice area. I am working in a long term care hospital, it is state ...

     The dreaded “you’re only” or “all you do” qualifiers.  I’ve been haunted by these statements all my working life.  When I was a teacher, I often heard, “Oh, you’re only a preschool teacher.”  I guess preschool teachers don’t teach.  Or I was told “All you do is play all day.”  Yes, that was a big ...