Growing to your full pOTential

       The first part of this video was  about OT in primary care by Karen Duddy, OTD, MHA, OTR/L. In primary care settings, OT address the daily conditions of the clients.  Occupational therapists are seen to deal with everything holistic and can get referrals that involve many things. Occupational therapists face challenges in these primary settings like funding, trying to fit in, having broad base skills as they are expected to have, be confident, working with others and also while promoting OT.  An important thing to be clear with is that it takes a lot to work as an Occupational therapist. Some takeaways i got from this section of the lecture are that the main key for Occupational therapists is that we focus on the customer and their needs. We have to be creative, connect with the patient, and be aware of their diagnosis, leading to helping with the problem which in most cases patients really appreciate Occupational therapists for.    ...

       Culture is defined as “ the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic .” (Webster) and to elaborate more, it is “ the knowledge, beliefs, values, assumptions, perspectives, attitudes, norms, and customs that people acquire through membership in a particular society or group” (Hammell, 2009a). A person’s culture also affects how they are because they could include the “behavioral standards, and expectations accepted by the society or cultural group of which a person is a member” (OTPF-4, 10). For example, in my person life, I grew up with the norm of not eating pork or anything with pork, and it’s something I am accustomed to.          A person’s culture impacts their daily occupations and routines by becoming part of them. It affects how they work, what they do and every decision or opinion we have comes from our culture and what we val...

      In lecture today, we watched the Suffer the Little Children documentary. It was a very eye-opening documentary on living situations and how people with disability were treated and their experiences at a facility for disabled people.     For me, the most significant aspect was the disabled people being completely aware of what was going on, especially their actions and how they were being treated because they do have emotions and just need their people and the people who take care of them them to have empathy towards them and provide good services. Previously, I noticed that some of the staff were just treating the people any how because of their conditions and they lacked a lot of patience when it comes to caring for them. This situation to me, i very similar to many things I've heard growing up when people assumed that the disabled did not really know what was going on around them and lacked feelings because they just do anything without care and nothing ...

       Carolyn Manville Baum , who now   is Carolyn Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, presented the 1980 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Le cture at the Annual Conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association on April 15, 1980, in Denver, Colorado. Carolyn Manville Baum spoke on the topic, ‘Occupational T herapists Put C are in the H ealth Systems’. She is known to be an “influential leader in promoting research and education that improved occupational therapy practice” ( otcentennial ). Things in society during this time were then developing and expanding. Some big things that caught my attention w ere that there was conflict between occupational therapy practice and occupational therapy education, the delivery of health services, the expansion of federal government's involvement in the health care system and then allied health professionals trying to broaden their profession. (Baum, 1980 )           I chose this spea...

Hello!  Welcome to my blog. My name is Akosua Odei. I am currently a first year MOT student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. I am excited to begin this journey and glad you're here to join me on this journey. This is just the beginning, come along with me while we grow to our full pOTential these next few years!