This week my student starts, even though I have been a COTA for nine years now this is the first time I will be taking a student. I am very excited to be able to help someone in the way I have been helped in the past. I am also nervous since I have never taken a student before I hope that I impart enough knowledge to her with out ...

Today was my first official day as an OTR/L, I recieved my official results from NBCOT last weekend and my license this weekend so I can finally use the initials I have been working for over the past 2 and 1/2 years. I am so excited to finally be done but the real pressure of the job has come down on me today. I had two patients unexpectedly need ...

This week we have a PT student observing in our clinic and it made me wonder how soon before I could take a student. I decided to email the fieldwork coordinator at my school and I got more than I bargained for... I can take a level one now! Since I have been a licensed COTA since 2003 I can take level one students now, I can't take level two ...

     I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!     Amidst all of the excitement of finishing school, graduating and the holidays, I reallized I forgot to share an amazing experiencing I had during my last placement.  The hospital I was placed at provided students the opportunity to observe in different ...

     I graduated!  I cannot believe that it is over.  I’m done with school.  I’m done with fieldwork.  It is all up to me now.  It hasn’t sunk in yet.  I have been waiting for this for over 2 years and now it’s finally here.     Going back to school at 29 years old was the ...

I cannot believe it has been so long since I have updated my blog.  Time truly is flying!  I have a mere 2 weeks left before graduation and I can hardly believe it.  I have been learning so much in acute care.  I have had the opportunity to work with a great variety of diagnoses including transplant patients, patients with ...

What a crazy week!  I started my final fieldwork placement in an acute care setting at a major hospital.  Talk about culture shock.  It is a whole different world there and I am scrambling to learn what I need to survive the next 7 weeks.  Everyone keeps telling me that I will see a lot there.  I have no doubt about ...

     Starting tomorrow I am taking over the full case load for fieldwork.  I am more excited than nervous.  I’ve been seeing these kids for 6 weeks now and I am very comfortable working with them.  I’m excited to be on my own and implement some of my own ideas into treatment.  I’ve spent the day working up ...

     This week I finally started feeling like a therapist.  I have been taking the lead in most of the sessions and have even been left alone to run a few sessions on my own.  I have come up with the majority of the interventions and am currently writing all of the notes.  It’s pretty exciting!  I’ve been ...

     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 ...