There are three more weeks of school left and I am very excited! The next step of life is waiting for me ahead. The only thing that is stopping me...Is MOVING! I now realized why I decided to stay in the same apartment for the past four years despite not actually liking the facility. All of the packing, shipping, driving, costs for storage are ...

So many times we hear people discussing whether someone is reaching their full potential. It not only applies in rehabilitation, but in life in general. But what does it truly mean? Is a person's full potential measured based on how others perceive them, or how they perceive themselves? Is it our own dreams, aspirations and goals that require ...

Our career fair is coming up tomorrow and I cannot wait. The day is sure to be a very exciting and stressful one. So far I have completed my resume and had professors as well as the career services center at Marquette look over it. Well that was the first step...after going to buy a business suit! The hard part came along when I was trying to ...

Senior Farewell and Massage-A-Thon are well on their way, and I can't wait! I am especially excited for Senior Farewell. It is the one opportunity that we get to make fun of all of our previous professors. This year however, our professors are apparently aiming to fight back with a rebuttal...This should be interesting. I think that it is very ...

''What strategies are occupational therapists interested in mental health going to develop to both assert the field as an effective treatment and practice it as such?'' This question was posed by an OT student in her comments on my assertion that advocacy groups such as the Icarus Project can provide new ideas - and ''re-emergent'' practice ...

This semester is becoming jam packed with A LOT of work. I don't think that I have had this many projects and papers due since taking English, History, Philosophy, and Theology all in the same semester. It's almost overwhelming at times. Nonetheless, I just keep thinking about the light at the end of the tunnel as I am almost there. I find ...

Now comes the time again where there is just A LOT going on. Besides the loads of projects, papers and tests, we have a lot of events coming up. We have Massage-A-Thon coming around the corner, which was extremely successful last semester. Then we have senior farewell, which is certain to be a blast. And then there's career fair which is sure to ...

Starting a new job in emergency medicine? You may want to be extra careful on your first day. Research from Imperial College London states that the death rate is higher among patients admitted to English hospitals on the first Wednesday in August--the day new grads typically start their first day of work. Specifically, the death rate among ...

Several weeks ago I was at our daily OFT (Outcome Facilitation Team) meeting when we heard over the speaker system, ''Code 4. 5th floor. Room 12.''  A Spanish-speaking patient had passed out and became unresponsive, and a code was called for the Stat team to her room for resuscitation.  As the nurse would later describe, she was ...

This week I was discussing the roles between PT's, PT students, and PTA's with my professor. I mentioned that, though I have had interactions with PTA's during my last two clinicals, it has been relatively limited in me directly supervising them. While talking to her I expressed my concern with supervising a PTA who has been practicing for an ...