Settings of Occupational Therapy

Hi readers!

Occupational therapists can work in many different places beyond in the NICU. This week I would like focus on my friend’s blog. Megan is in the Saint Louis University occupational therapy program with me. Her blog is dedicated to all the different settings OTs can work in. The flexibility in settings is one of the most unique things about occupational therapy and one of the main reasons I fell in love with the career.

Megan discusses the OT settings of NICU, oncology, mental health, acute care, school, and nursing homes. As you can see, it is a wide range from beginning of life in the NICU to the end of life in a nursing home. For each setting, she discusses the types of patients the occupational therapist works with, what the patient’s diagnosis might be, and what and how an occupational therapist can help the certain type of patient whether newborn with sensory integration difficulties or with a geriatric patient after a stroke (Cussen, 2016).

I encourage you to go to her blog to learn more about each setting and how an occupational therapist can help you at any age or stage of life. Please visit this link http://sluengl4000.blogspot.com to go to her blog. I really enjoy reading it, and I know you will too.

Come back next week!

Kayla


Works Cited:

Cussen, M. (2016, September 16). What is Occupational Therapy?? [Web blog post]. Retrieved October 28, 2016, from http://sluengl4000.blogspot.com