The role of a rehab professional is filled with various stresses that can cloud your judgement, clear your mind or give you insight into the leadership/ management principles of your supervisor. At any rate, there is the likelihood that one time in your life you may be given the proverbial axe. Therapists just like you ….
Looking for a promising, high salary career that can offer you a flexible position and will have you feeling good about yourself at the end of each day? Then Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech-Language Therapy should be a consideration for a career path. If you must have a passion for helping people in their ….
If it hasn’t already happened, it eventually will. It effects every professional from entry-level to the executives in any industry. I’m talking about that burnout feeling that many care-giving professionals, such as those that are in rehabilitation are prone to. There may be numerous factors at play, but feeling like you are starring as the ….
Many hospitals have mandated that all healthcare workers receive their Influenza vaccines. As a rehab professional, it is your duty to do no harm. By avoiding the vaccine, you risk infecting your patients as they come to you for treatment. As a result, many healthcare organizations have posed either getting your vaccine or wearing a ….
As with everything else, Medicare controls how each healthcare provider gets aid for a procedure or treatment. In the case of rehab departments, as well as any healthcare providers, you must be accredited in order to receive Medicare reimbursements. Because all healthcare organizations are subject to a three-year accreditation cycle, they often find themselves at ….
We all remember what it was like coming out of school and how difficult is was to find our first opportunity as a rehab professional. Just like any internship, your last year of school helped you not only receive hands-on interaction with patients, but also created a networking opportunity to potentially set up your first job. ….
In your practice as a physical, occupational or speech therapist, you have certain procedures, certain ways of doing things. There may be good reasons for why things are done the way they are, or it could just be that they have always been done that way, and no one really thought to question the procedures. ….
Stress is something we all have to deal with at work and outside it, and that is especially true of the healthcare professions, where the lives or the quality of life of the patients you care for often are at stake. As a physical, occupational or speech therapist you are no doubt well aware that ….
As a physical, occupational or speech therapist, you know more than most about how to tell when you’re pushing your body just enough — or too much. But are you as good at determining when your mental well being is being compromised? Our society pushes all of us today like never before. We’re asked to ….
Rehabilitation therapists work in a variety of settings, often dictated by what kind of rehab therapy they do. A rehab therapist is someone who has been trained to assist people who are recovering from illness or trauma that can be emotional, physical or psychological in nature. The therapist works primarily to help his or her ….
I don’t know about you, but quite frankly I’m sick of hearing about the tough competition out there for jobs. The fact of the matter is that there are an amazing amount of therapy jobs available for people that are motivated and ready to seize the opportunity. So today, we’re going to focus on 5 ….