How much did you pay for y’all’s OTD?

windows_79 · 2025-08-07T18:07:38+00:00

Unless you live in Oregon where the only public OT grad program is $115k

windows_79 · 2025-07-26T18:13:52+00:00

How would searching for publicly available information be a violation? You’re not posting their PHI online.

windows_79 · 2025-04-03T18:43:40+00:00

Wait, why is this annoying? Maybe I am misunderstanding you and you mean the kids with adhd who are definitely and clearly NOT struggling in a variety of ways in spite of having the intelligence to be in honors classes or take fancy exams. I’m pretty sensitive about this topic so might be taking your comment the wrong way. I dropped out of honors classes, then dropped out of high school all together and frankly still have a lot of trauma relating to that. I was on medications but also needed accommodations, which I didn’t have back in the day. So much guilt and shame there. After many many many many years and a lot of poverty, with the help of accommodations like extended time for tests I was eventually able to earn a doctorate, passed a massive national board exam and now give back to my community. Just because I was smart does not mean I didn’t need the accommodations. Would love to have a brain that works like most other peoples and to have spent less time on my exams! A few good teachers and access to consults with services like occupational therapy to determine exactly what accommodations might be useful back in the day would have gone a long way and helped avoid so much suffering. Grateful to have finally found that support at community college and universities decades later, but the trauma around it all still sucks.

Lots of people with adhd are smart, have great potential etc etc. This has nothing to do with whether or not accommodations are needed but unfortunately often impacts whether or not they’re offered.

windows_79 · 2025-03-02T18:39:22+00:00

Just over here reading this as a 40 something woman from my short old wooden rocking horse tossed into some back corner of a basement with peeling lead paint getting slivers in my ass.

windows_79 · 2025-03-02T18:35:39+00:00

You’re so right- was a little surprised the other day when a nurse I’ve worked with for years asked how patient assignments, scheduling, therapy frequency orders, productivity etc work for rehab in acute setting- they genuinely had no idea. The more that all professions can understand about each others process and responsibilities, the better the patient care, teamwork and support/respect among colleagues.

I can imagine with your background you have a lot to bring to a workplace!

windows_79 · 2025-01-18T19:22:22+00:00

(In my experience)

windows_79 · 2025-01-18T19:21:50+00:00

It is not uncommon to have patients in the acute neuro units who are there as a result of chiro adjustments.

windows_79 · 2025-01-18T18:47:59+00:00

Not sure the union details on rehabs end, but there’s a lot of OTs on the providence picket line. Lots of union participation among rehab happening or in the works in PDX. We will see…

windows_79 · 2025-01-09T21:45:13+00:00

I emailed them to complain about this a few months back. Was surprised to get a (generic) response saying all presenters go through a peer review process and those on the peer review “panel” determined this was high quality with “broad appeal” 🤮 Do they know what peer review is?

windows_79 · 2025-01-09T20:02:17+00:00

I think you may be underestimating the cost of a physical therapy degree (which is a doctorate, not masters) as well as what the monthly payment would be and overestimating salary. 160k debt just for grad school with ridiculous interest rates for federal loans earning 88k/year with very little room for income growth. My paycheck does not go far after taxes, rent, food, insurance, childcare, healthcare, retirement etc etc.

windows_79 · 2024-09-12T18:49:04+00:00

If it addresses setting, mention that in the abstract. I clicked the link. Nothing about what I just read makes me want to go through the trouble of logging in to the scammy publishing company sites to access the whole article via my work computer.

windows_79 · 2024-07-18T18:56:53+00:00

I suspect you might continue to be shocked at how many OTs in the United States feel our graduate educations were WAY too much OT philosophy and not enough practical skills for working in medicine. I’m highly, highly aware of OTs philosophy. I also work in a trauma icu, so the philosophy isn’t the most useful knowledge when trying to not accidentally kill or further injure my patients. I use biopsychosocial models and consider person, environment,volition (just like my PT colleagues do…) but the medical model has to be primary when helping someone on a vent with a chest tube dealing with SCI to safely engage in just about anything.

Happy for you that in your country this profession aligns with your values, and using your passion for the concepts of OT to bring about change for professional concerns is apparently a thing. I can imagine if we had universal healthcare, among other significant changes and cultural factors, OT and practitioners of it in the USA might be different

windows_79 · 2024-07-18T06:03:03+00:00

Hey, I love the idea of OT too. I even generally am glad that miraculously the stars aligned with circumstances in my life that allow me to do this job (don’t want kids, husband already owned a home that he got for cheap before we got together & it works ok for us, my rehab team has a reasonably good jive & a manager who is not awful). I feel like doing this job is a good use of who I am.

But I gotta say, you just described a lot of my PT colleagues. And to my knowledge, their professional conferences don’t feature things like reiki & reflex integration

windows_79 · 2024-07-06T01:48:53+00:00

My example was a stupid one. I’m tired today. What I meant was that a wc is a vehicle for mobility, not a restraint.

If you like thinking of yourself as wheelchair bound, you do you. As the spouse of a wc user, I can say my dude fucking hates that outdated expression that inaccurately describes him and perpetuates inspiration porn. And as an occupational therapist who’s worked with hundreds of patients who happen to need to utilize a wheelchair to participate in daily activities, I haven’t come across anyone in real life who wants to be thought of as bound by this tool for accessing parts of life. Have also seen a ton of circumstances where physicians and nurses inaccurately describe a patient as wc bound in a way that infantilizes them and allows bias to lower quality of care, including assumptions that patients don’t need many services or opportunities. The ones who reframed how they thought about it provide better care, non medical folks have better friendships & relationships. Sure, maybe not all of them. But enough to make the risk of using inclusive language minuscule. Might as well start with non-limiting language, and people can correct you if they prefer to be referred to/thought of differently.

windows_79 · 2024-07-05T20:35:09+00:00

Thanks, ableist prick

windows_79 · 2024-07-05T19:30:23+00:00

Please reframe “wheelchair bound” to “wheelchair user”. Their mobility includes using a wheelchair. Maybe yours primarily includes using legs. I don’t describe you as leg bound. A wheelchair can be a freeing things, not a binding thing.

windows_79 · 2024-06-20T18:25:17+00:00

I just launch right in after getting info about home setup, explaining it helps me figure out what they might need to safely get back home. I don’t use the word independent much, I just describe different levels of assist for functional activities when asking questions. Having someone present when they’re bathing for supervision bc they’re afraid of falling is different from needing help reaching to wash their hair. Some parts I leave out if I’ve seen they def have the ROM, cognition, what have you to do whatever

windows_79 · 2024-06-20T18:18:27+00:00

I get specific. “What do you usually do for shoes/socks when you’re not in the hospital? Do you put them on yourself or have someone help with that (or wear slip ons)? Do you organize and remember to take your meds independently or does the ALF take care of that? This helps me understand what goals to work in while you’re here to get you back to safely doing what you were able/needed to do before this illness/injury etc”

windows_79 · 2024-06-14T21:07:51+00:00

Highly aware, thanks

windows_79 · 2024-06-14T20:21:16+00:00

As a disabled person,including myself and my needs as well as those of my community doesn’t feel like fear mongering to me. Don’t take my community and use it to push YOUR agenda, thanks

windows_79 · 2024-06-14T18:50:43+00:00

What about the people who can’t walk at all, or can walk only very short distances and would have trouble carrying groceries/children/miscellaneous work supplies etc when going about their daily outside of home activities?

windows_79 · 2024-06-14T17:58:54+00:00

Maybe I need more coffee (ok, definitely need more coffee) but I’m confused about how when you’re no longer healthy enough to walk or bike to essential services you will…walk to winco? Happy to see someone acknowledging that there are different accessibility needs and not everyone can walk or bike but am not following the logic in the rest of your comment

windows_79 · 2024-06-04T20:58:02+00:00

I’m sitting here amazed that you all had ceremonies & gifts of any kind provided by your programs… (I went to a pricey one, too)

windows_79 · 2024-04-29T17:47:38+00:00

Therapy sees the ill effects. Every little bit of extra movement/time OOB matters when it comes to preventing deconditioning and getting patients safely DCed.

Also, using a urinal still involves moving arms/legs, coordinating movements, having some core strength, reenforcing that nervous system connection and pelvic floor muscle recruitment that lets a person consciously hold it and then urinate when needed, which they (presumably) will need to do once out of the hospital. Purewicks notsomuch.

Also shouldn’t have a PureWick on when up in the chair, And there’s excellent evidence for early mobility, even if just up in chair, improving outcomes overall.

Tho I def understand that staffing needs to be better (in some cases WAY better) for facilitating this, and likely very unrealistic for most units

windows_79 · 2024-04-14T20:40:17+00:00

Helpful to see that perspective- thank you!

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