...and admiration for health care related careers. By using advanced technology and having a proper understanding of human anatomy, health care workers have drastically impacted the lives of various injured and ill individuals. However, I find physical therapy to be the most fascinating of all health care careers. Most intriguing is a physical therapists' knowledge of mobility restoration. While I am indeed interested in working as a physical therapist, college education requirements for this position are becoming stricter. In order to pursue a position in this career, one must obtain a bachelor's degree, complete a pre-physical therapy course, receive a Doctor of physical therapy, and pass the National Physical Therapy Exam (NPTE). Despite the various procedures one must go through, it is very uplifting to know that one is able to receive a bachelor's degree in any major, regardless if it pertains to science. Even though this long process may be overwhelming for some, I still look forward to pursuing this career. What I am most excited about...
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...Mission Statement My career mission is to become a practicing physical therapist in an outpatient clinic. By doing this I will help rehab people back to health after an injury. Vocational Objectives Some vocational objectives I have are to obtain a clinical position in a Physical Therapy facility that emphasizes Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Another objective that I have is to work for a professional sports team as their physical therapist. The final objective is to have a private office to run my own therapy business. Strengths My StrengthsQuest results were strategic, ideation, maximizer, individualization, and intellection. Strategic means I am especially talented in the Strategic theme and create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, I can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues. Ideation means I am especially talented in the Ideation theme and I am fascinated by ideas. I am able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. Maximizer means I am especially talented in the Maximizer theme and focus on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence. I seek to transform something strong into something superb. Individualization means I am especially talented in the Individualization theme and am intrigued with the unique qualities of each person. I have a gift for figuring out how people who are different can work together productively. Intellection means I am especially talented in the Intellection theme and...
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...relates to Occupational Therapy++ Overall, I feel that I have gained a lot of useful information from the text and lecture portion of this class that will help as I pursue a career in the occupational therapy field. Equally as important, was the hands-on lab portion of the class that has helped me to gain a greater understanding of the inherent makeup and inner workings of the physical body. The overall structure of the text book provided me with an understanding of basic concepts and terminologies in areas such as the chemistry of life, the cell, genetics, plant and animal forms and functions, and ecology. The end of chapter review questions helped me to develop a mindset of using a critical thinking process. When looking at the definitions of both occupational therapy and biology, it is easy to see how the two are related and how in most cases, biology is an essential factor in the need for an individual to receive occupational therapy....
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...A. This case is about a demeaning and hostile work environment in which several female/male employees verbally abused a co-worker. This work environment takes place in a busy rehabilitation hospital in which the abused co-worker is the assistant of the rehabilitation hospital and the abusers are the Physical Therapists of the hospital. The subject of the attacks included being assigned demeaning tasks and being talked down to. This demeaning and hostile environment was initially created by direct face to face interactions, personal written notes and the manager of the rehabilitation hospital. After nearly 4 years of abuse the co-worker resigned from the position and the abusive co-workers remained at the job despite various reports sent to the manager about the abuse. B. The assistant of the rehabilitation hospital was in charge of the day to day flow/duties of patient care within the hospital. The day to day flow/ duties consisted of tasks such as: preparing wheelchairs for patients (pts.), putting equipment away, organizing recreational activities for pts., filing various documents on pts. and assisting pts. with various dressing routines in preparation for therapy. Initially, during the first year of being on the job, the assistant was well received by the therapists and commended on several occasions for her willingness to help anyone with anything and for doing an exceptional job at completing her day to day duties. Then a big turnover happened within the hospital in which...
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...$400,000 for Alleged Sexual Harassment of Teens, http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/12-6-04b.cfm 2010, http://www.workharassment.net/index.php/sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace.html http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/legal-resources/know-your-rights-at-work/workplace-sexual-harassment/ INTRODUCTION Sexual harassment has been an ongoing problem for decades. In recent years, the percentage of sexual harassment claims has dropped, but some people are also afraid to report harassment. Following you will find a definition of what sexual harassment is along with statistics from studies conducted. SEXUAL HARASSMENT DEFINED Sexual harassment is “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when submission is made a term or condition of employment is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting the individual, unreasonably interferes with the individual’s work performance, or creates a hostile, intimidating, or offensive working environment (OK admin. Code Sec. 335:15-3-10)”, according to the State Human Rights Commission. Sexual harassment is a violation of the State of Oklahoma’s Anti-Discrimination Act. Harassment can include verbal or physical gestures. It can include offering employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors and making or threatening a person after receiving a negative response from them. There are two types of...
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...Psychological health in the workplace Including mental health in your business model is important to a healthy workplace. Poor mental health not only hurts the individual, it also reduces corporate profits. It's important that all levels of the workplace - including the Board of Directors, management, finance, and human resources departments - get involved to incorporate mental health at your workplace in order to ensure proper functioning of firm. There is also a legislative requirement for employers to protect the mental and physical health of their employees. Many provincial occupational health and safety acts have been expanded to include harm to psychological well-being in the definition of harassment. In jurisdictions that do not have explicit legislation dealing with psychological health in the workplace, the general duty clause would apply. The most important organizational factors that impact organizational health, the health of individual employees and the financial bottom line, including the way work is carried out and the context in which work occurs, are Psychological Support, Organizational Culture, Clear Leadership & Expectations, Civility & Respect, Psychological Job Fit, Growth & Development, Recognition & Reward, Involvement & Influence, Workload Management, Engagement, Balance, Psychological Protection, Protection of Physical Safety. Apart from the aforesaid factors, a key issue affecting an employee’s health is stress. Taber's Cyclopedic...
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...military veteran that went through a medical board that resulted in early separation after seven years in the Army. Our client suffers from PTSD as result of her unit being attacked while on deployment. She suffers from depression secondary to back pain and thyroid disease. Currently she and husband are struggling financially; she lives with her in-laws while her husband is on deployment. Client unable to manage personal finances and presently not employed. Program Development of Informational Needs Physical factors: Extent of Disability 1. How does the disability handicap employment potential? 2. Is the disability progressive or stable? 3. Can person’s functioning in activities of daily living be improved? 4. Is the disability stable enough to initiate rehabilitation programming? Psychosocial Factors 1. To what degree has the client adjusted to the handicapping aspects of the disability? a. Does the person use “disability” as an excuse for failure? b. Are any of physical symptoms psychologically based? c. Does the client have the emotional stability to engage in a vocational rehabilitation program at the present time? In the near future? Family and Friends 1. What positive or negative role will the individual’s family and friends play in the rehabilitation process (e.g. supportive, overprotective or unrealistic regarding client potential)? 2. What personal counseling and/or family counseling services will be necessary (e.g. psychotherapy, personal adjustment...
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...Coping Skills Catherine Manning Liberty University Abstract Human beings develop throughout their lifespan, as they make good choices to meet their physical, spiritual and emotional needs. While development is not sequential, it is progressive as the story of life molds and shapes the beliefs and choices of the future. When humans are compared and evaluated, what is it that influences one person to make good choices and another to make bad choices? The ability to adapt and handle times of crisis is a good indicator of a healthy, well-balanced life. It is an indicator that affects almost everyone. It takes skills that mature and develop over time. Are there life experiences that contribute to the positive handling of the stressors of a crisis? Personal experience and pertinent research points to three themes offering positive influence upon crisis adapting skills. First, a religious and spiritual foundation provides the context through which the crisis can be understood, analyzed and managed. Second, a positive, stable family situation allows for the development of the positive self-esteem necessary through which the impact of the crisis upon the individual can be managed. Finally, the satisfaction found in a career or a job can determine perspective and motivation in dealing with problems outside the workplace. Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Lifespan developmental psychology (LP) is involved in the study of the individual’s development...
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...Leadership and Mental Health Tracey Allen University of the Rockies A healthy organization is based on effective culture and cultural resources which play a role of glue and help managers and employees to communicate and create positive climate and morale. Coming to know the unique culture of organizations evokes the personal meaning, experience, and perception of organizational life in the minds of employees. Some of the main traits of healthy organizational culture are openness, environment of accountability and personal responsibility, risk-taking, fierce commitment, effective communication, positive interpersonal relations, integrity and consistency, collaboration, integration, and holistic thinking, etc. The role of a leader is to ensure healthy organizational culture, control mental health of employees and promote a healthy culture. Gaining access to organizational experiences and relations helps managers and supervisors better understand individual and collective motives that govern their behavior and enables managers to distinguish healthy and unhealthy behavior patterns inside the organization. Organizational culture can be defined as relations, vertically, between manager and subordinates and, horizontally, among organizational employees in s group. As the aims, goals, processes, and characteristics of each organization and its members vary, the principle of healthy culture implies that the best...
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...Career Path Chart Considering your interests and expectations, identify two career paths that suit your interests and abilities. Complete the chart and reflection questions based on your research of your chosen career paths. Potential Career Paths | Career Information | Career Path Option 1 Medical Secretary Career Category Conventional | Career Path Option 2 Resort Desk Clerk Career Category Conventional | Job description (including daily responsibilities) | Represents physicians by screening incoming telephone calls; recording and transmitting messages; scheduling, receiving, and announcing scheduled patients, screening unscheduled patients; arranging referrals to other health care providers; scheduling appointments, x-rays, lab tests, physical therapy, MRI's, CT scans, etc. | Accommodate hotel, motel, and resort patrons by registering and assigning rooms to guests, issuing room keys or cards, transmitting and receiving messages, keeping records of occupied rooms and guests' accounts, making and confirming reservations, and presenting statements to and collecting payments from departing guests. | Requirements for path (school, military, training, age, location, skills, etc.) | * High school diploma * Basic office skills * Associates degree * Excellent computer skills | * High School Diploma * Customer service * Computer functions * Problem solving * Front desk presentation | Salary/benefits information | $30,190 | $24...
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...September 11, 2015 Question no. 1 1. Visual/Spatial - Involves visual perception of the environment, the ability to create and manipulate mental images, and the orientation of the body in space. 2. Verbal/Linguistic - Involves reading, writing, speaking, and conversing in one's own or foreign languages. 3. Logical/Mathematical - Involves number and computing skills, recognizing patterns and relationships, timeliness and order, and the ability to solve different kinds of problems through logic. 4. Bodily/Kinesthetic - Involves physical coordination and dexterity, using fine and gross motor skills, and expressing oneself or learning through physical activities. 5. Musical - Involves understanding and expressing oneself through music and rhythmic movements or dance, or composing, playing, or conducting music. 6. Interpersonal - Involves understanding how to communicate with and understand other people and how to work collaboratively. 7. Intrapersonal - Involves understanding one's inner world of emotions and thoughts, and growing in the ability to control them and work with them consciously. 8. Naturalist - Involves understanding the natural world of plants and animals, noticing their characteristics, and categorizing them; it generally involves keen observation and the ability to classify other things as well. http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/mismeasure/genius/research02.html Question no.2 Self-Assessment: This can be defined as having the...
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...survey conducted it was found that, four out of ten employees state that their jobs are "very" or "extremely" stressful. Those in high-stress jobs are three times more likely than others to suffer from stress-related medical conditions and are twice as likely to quit. The study states that women, in particular, report more stress related to the conflict between work and family. INTRODUCTION: Occupational stress is stress involving work. Stress is defined in terms of its physical and physiological effects on a person, and can be a mental, physical or emotional strain. It can also be a tension or a situation or factor that can cause stress. Occupational stress can occur when there is a discrepancy between the demands of the environment/workplace and an individual’s ability to carry out and complete these demands. Often a stressor can lead the body to have a physiological reaction which can strain a person physically as well as mentally. A variety of factors contribute to workplace stress such as negative workload,...
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...Introduction A therapist is bound to encounter boredom, burnout and or therapist impairment at some point during her career. These may have a significant impact on therapist efficacy and inflict intentional or unintentional physical and or psychological harm on clients who are seeking counselling if not managed properly. Therefore, it is of great importance to recognise the signs of such problems by looking after oneself physically and psychologically, which is crucial to both the therapist’s and the client’s well-being. The author aims to explore the effects of boredom, burnout and impairment and how the author can maintain therapist efficacy through career-sustaining behaviours. Boredom The experience of boredom, also known as disenchantment or disengagement, as (Campagne, 2012; Ulberg, Amlo, Hersoug, Dahl, & Høglend, 2014) named respectively, affects humanity in a variety of ways. Kottler (2010, p. 169) defines boredom as the “loss of interest and momentum” and lack of stimulation in one’s work. Similarly, Campagne (2012, p. 76) defines boredom as a “loss of interest in and emotional demotivation for the professional activity itself” and stresses that it involves the loss of flow and professional motivation, which is prior to, but can eventually lead to burnout if the symptoms are ignored. In the therapeutic setting, boredom can manifest in different forms, such as, “repetition that is so difficult to tolerate, not only in the similarity of client complaints but in the...
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...professional but you can’t help the tears that fall on their own. These traumatic events often affect nurses and other medical professionals emotionally. Satisfaction and positive attitude in the workplace are the two crucial attributes that drive people to continue and success in their career. The nurse’s continuous interaction with the patients and their families can foster emotions of anger, fear, and desperation, especially when there are no solutions to the patients’ problems (Koinis et al). Thus, exposure to constant ethical dilemmas can be a burden on the medical professional’s emotional state. The anxiety and tension that develops over time lead to the nurse’s delivery of lower quality of care to the patients. The inability to provide adequate care to the patients in turn, can put the patient’s life at stake. Not only does the unbalanced emotional state have an impact on patient care, it can also cause psychological consequences to the nurses themselves. Stress sources act accumulatively on a person leading to physical, psychological, and behavioral reactions, or even to psychosomatic disease (Koinis et al). As much as I hope to cure the patients, I don’t want to lose myself in the job. Some of the solutions I have for myself when I accouter these issues in my future career are seeking for social support, professional support and try simple stress busters. I believe that I can receive the best mental support from my family members and friends. If I can talk to them...
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...students • Our dedicated student support team is there to help you every step of the way • Our virtual campus – OpenSpace – provides you with opportunities to interact with trainers and assessors, and students • Many of our courses are nationally recognised and meet professional licensing or registration requirements. of teaching and training Certificate III in Education Support CHC30213 This new qualification has been developed specifically to provide those working as teacher aides – or seeking work in the field – with the skills to assist teachers in a range of classroom contexts. The role of teacher aide is a popular first step for individuals seeking to establish careers working in education, as well as parents interested in flexible employment that fits around caring for their own children. Teacher aides support the teaching and learning process in both primary and secondary schools, working closely with teachers to supervise students, conduct teaching activities, support special needs students and undertake administrative tasks. C O U R S E...
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