RSCC Occupational Therapy Assistant Program

Video laying out some guidelines for ergonomics for smart phone use

Wounded warrior, motivational speaker, actor, and an advocate for veterans and amputees. He is a quadruple amputee and an amazing inspiration.

This Nursing Home's Retro Rooms Help Dementia Patients Remember the Past-- This is a neat article! It makes me happy to see that some nursing homes go above and beyond for the sake of their patients! If end up in LTC I would love to be at one like this!

More ergonomics! This article goes through different sitting positions for the workplace! Good resource for future practice!

I've gained a lot of fantastic ideas and are simply and cost nothing for clients from this blog, she is all over my Pinterest. Great inspiration!

I LOVE this design. This would offer the client in the W/C more of a "we are going on a walk together" feel instead of a "Getting pushed on a walk" feel. Person first!

An easy to follow ergonomics hand out for future clients. I really like the acronym, those are easy for clients (and me!) to remember.

Doing the app treatment plan for peds made me wonder if there are more apps out there for other clients! I found this on AOTA and it divides up good apps by the different practice areas, peds, mental health, etc....good resource!

I wanted to know a little more on Palliative care, and "techniques" I would need for my therapeutic use of self. This infographic walks through different changes that a client might go through, both physically and mentally.

OT for the animal kingdom. Inspiring story for both clients and practitioners!

Many asked after post our EBP article what NDT treatment "looks" like in real life. Here is a 1minute video to show a brief overview of applying treatment.

Inspiring story about yet another person who doesn't let their disability define them! Boy with CP signs college wrestling scholarship..made me cry!

The production company behind "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and other reality television staples will debut a new documentary series following young adults with Down syndrome. The six-episode series "Born This Way" will air on A&E Network starting Dec. 8 at 10 p.m. ET.----- I am anxious to see this show! I hope they portray it in a way that isn't dramatic and fake like all the other reality tv shows. I feel this show has to opportunity to show people more into the life of someone who lives with a disability! I know I'll be watching...anyone else?

This treadmill was originally made by NASA to help prepare astronauts for space. I was looking up videos on modalities and this popped up! Even though the talker in the video is a PT I thought it would benefit us to know what technology is out there. This video describes what the treadmill is for and how it works. My husband actually had this done when he had a thousand pound beam fall on his foot and it definitely helped him go back to his typical gait.

The OT in the video allows the viewer to understand how it would be if they were in an oncology ward. I liked this video because I tend to only have sad thoughts on this particular subject, however, I like how positive the OT is in this video because that is the type of mind set an OTA would need if they were working with a client under these circumstances. Also, the video goes over what an OTA would be focusing on for treatment.

"Hugh Herr's bionic limbs have already revolutionized life for amputees (including himself). Now he's envisioning new capabilities for everyone else."

I find this website to be very inspiring! It was created by an OT who advocates for the use of dance in therapy.

I think that a given sexuality questionnaire, as mentioned in the video, can help OT practitioners who are uncomfortable initiating the topic with clients.

So we have learned that hospice is for people who have limited time left, and this video describes hospice a little bit more than what was mentioned in class. The one thing that stuck out to me was the part that life in hospice is not about quantity, but instead it is about quality!

This video runs through some exercise that would be good for a person who had surgery for breast cancer. We have been discussing cancer in class and I felt that this would be beneficial for us to know because breast cancer is not that rare!