Today’s quote comes in a time where the scope and role of Occupational Therapists in British Columbia is being challenged and, in my opinion, threatened. Recently I reposted this LinkedIn post whivu was sharing that OT regulation is being challenged to say that OTs don’t work with mental health and are limited to physical andContinue reading “Quote of the day 🥰”
Category Archives: The Role of Occupational Therapists
The Role of Occupational Therapists : Nature based practitioners
If you’ve been following along with my blog posts, you may have read my blog about Occupational therapy and where you might find us (click here to read). I have reached out to some friends and colleagues to help share their roles and scope of practices in the occupational therapy profession. My hope is thatContinue reading “The Role of Occupational Therapists : Nature based practitioners”
Becoming an Occupational therapist : my experience
Today’s Bloganuary post is very on point for my inspiration for starting my blog which was making the contents of occupational therapy accessible knowledge for potential clients and future aspiring occupational therapists (OT) ! Something that I absolutely love doing is mentoring OT students as a preceptor and this has extended to being connected toContinue reading “Becoming an Occupational therapist : my experience”
The Role of Occupational therapists: Regional Treatment centre
If you’ve been following along with my blog, you know I’m an Occupational therapist that works with kids with neurodiversity. In 2020 I started mentoring in my role as a preceptor for Occupational therapy and Occupational therapy assistant students in their programs. I remembered how big and scary the world can be graduating from schoolContinue reading “The Role of Occupational therapists: Regional Treatment centre”
Taking a strengths based approach with occupational therapy for neurodiverse individuals
As an individual who is exploring her own neurodiversity, while practicing as an occupational therapist with children and adults who are neurodiverse, I often reflect a lot on the practices that I use in my work and what we learned in school. I also have the opportunity in my job to be a preceptor toContinue reading “Taking a strengths based approach with occupational therapy for neurodiverse individuals”
Supporting the occupational therapists of the future!
In a few days, the facility that I work out will go on holiday break similar to the school holidays. This means that in this next week, I will be wrapping up my final evaluations for all of my placement students. This semester in particular, I have had the opportunity to be a preceptor forContinue reading “Supporting the occupational therapists of the future!”
What skills do Occupational Therapists bring to your life?
If you have met an occupational therapist, chances are you experienced a small part of our scope of practice in the one context you met them in. Perhaps your elderly parent or grandparent was in the hospital after a surgery and their occupational therapist helped recommend some grab bars for their shower or a walkerContinue reading “What skills do Occupational Therapists bring to your life?”
The Role of Occupational Therapists : ACT team
Happy Occupational therapy month! If you’ve been following along with my blog posts, you may have read my most recent blog about Occupational therapy and where you might find us (click here to read). I have reached out to some friends and colleagues to help share their roles and scope of practices in the occupationalContinue reading “The Role of Occupational Therapists : ACT team”
“Occupational therapy… So you do physio?” and why you’re kind of right but only just.
I’m a new occupational therapist, freshly graduated from Queens University last year, and I honestly don’t think my family fully understands what I do. But most people don’t. In our first year of our two year Masters program, we spent at least a small part of EVERY course practicing explaining what an occupational therapist does.Continue reading ““Occupational therapy… So you do physio?” and why you’re kind of right but only just.”
Be Your Own Sunshine 