Yesterday I found out where I would be placed for my final level 2.  I will be in acute care in a busy inner-city hospital.  I am a bit anxious about this placement.  Up to this point, I have been in adult day care, pediatric physical disabilities and pediatric development disabilities.  I have ...

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 ...

I have been a COTA now for seven years and it still never ceases to amaze me how much the full moon affects patients. On Friday night there was a full moon and the day was crazy. I had one patient not speak to me the entire treatment, all because we told her that flip flops were not appropriate footwear. A bunch of patients had increases in pain ...