Posted on November 3, 2009 by christiekiley
With each day that I learn more about occupational therapy, the more proud I am to be on the road to becoming an OT.
This pride really became apparent to me last Friday. Our class had just finished listening to a 90 minute medical lecture, given by the heads of Psychiatry and Occupational Therapy at our [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2009 by christiekiley
This week I finished my first round of Level I occupational therapy fieldwork in pediatrics. In two weeks, I start my next round, this time, in a psychiatric inpatient setting.
Here’s a description.
The Psychiatric Inpatient Program provides intensive psychiatric care to voluntary adult patients with acute psychiatric disorders, such as major depression, bipolar illness or schizophrenia. [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2009 by christiekiley
Invisible Children has done it again. I love this idea. And I hope you do too. For more information on Invisible Children, visit www.invisiblechildren.com.
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Posted on October 3, 2009 by christiekiley
I plan on writing about this topic a bit more extensively on my Occupational Therapy blog in the coming days, but I wanted to share this video with you that we were shown in our Medical Lectures class today.
This is the story of Tyler Genest, a 20-year-old man who lives in Hawaii and was born with [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2009 by christiekiley
Because I just can’t resist.
p.s., the best part starts at 38 seconds…kid’s got some moves!
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Posted on September 23, 2009 by christiekiley
Today I officially broke ground as an occupational therapy fieldwork student. I got placed in pediatrics, which made the transition from educational to clinical much less daunting seeing as I’ve spent the last two years teaching kids’ therapy classes at a pediatric clinic. Been there, done that.
But something funny happened today.
With each kid I observed [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2009 by christiekiley
After a full three and a half months of being without a job and, more importantly, being without small children to teach, I am finally back in the game.
This past Monday marked the beginning of my employment at a gymnastics center in Pasadena called Club Champion. There I am teaching just four classes per week [...]
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