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 am almost through with my first week in the OTA program and I am overwhelmed with information.  I have attended 4 of my 5 classes for the term and I can see how they are all going to be challenging in their own ways.  I was most concerned about my Neuro class, but I think that it actually will not be so ...

During this quarter we are learning about wellness and health promotion. The US as a whole is moving toward a preventative care medical model in hopes that this will decrease medical costs so the country can get out of debt. The AOTA also is following in this move showing that occupational therapists are the best professionals to take on ...

     I have a very important decision to make within the next few weeks.  Assuming (hoping, praying) that I am accepted into the OTA program that starts this fall I need to decide what I am going to do about my job.  I have been strongly advised by the program head that it would be best if I did not work during ...

Last night I had a few friends over and we got into the discussion about school. My girlfriend and I are both attending classes me at the graduate OT level her at the bachelors of nursing level so we are both stressed to the max with school. She is taking a summer course so its fast paced cramming 12 weeks of learning into 6. One of her classmates ...