Joe's OT blog

Just the other day in our older adults course, we had a guest lecturer about the value of nutrition in individual's lives. She did a great job conveying her message on the importance of people receiving proper nutrition and ensuring that they are not malnourished. Malnourishment has been a problem for many years in the hospital setting and continues to be increasingly prevalent issue. Our guest speaker stressed the importance of educating our clients on ways to avoid malnourishment and increase well-being. The purpose of this blog post is to discuss two interventions that we as future occupational therapists can do to help our clients increase their quality of life.  As our guest lecturer mentioned there are basically two main ways we can help someone who is not getting proper nutrition. These are exercise and eating protein. To give two main examples I want to first think about an older adult population. This would be a perfect population to have group therapy. The group therapy...

As we start to wind down the end of coursework in my career as an OT student, we were tasked with drawing a glyph self-portrait of a leader.  In drawing the glyph different features represent different characteristics of a leader This is something we did at the very beginning of our schooling as well. When we were finished we were asked to compare and contrast the one we drew just the other day to the one we drew in the first few weeks of school. So here we go: To begin, my characters were relatively similar and almost identical. Both have square heads meaning leadership stems from nurture over nature. I firmly believe that over time we can learn to be a leader just because we mature, we gain skills, and we have the ability to observe and model our actions after other effective leaders. Both have small eyes meaning there is an equal mix of leaders and non-leaders in the field of OT. After reflecting I wish I could go back and change the small eyes to big eyes meaning the majorit...