Here is a recent AOTA Board Report regarding this topic. FROM: Ad hoc Workgroup on Implementing Occupation based Practice TOPIC: Implementing Occupation Based Practice http://www.aota.org/members/area6/2005-bod/5.pdf
http://www.aota.org/members/area6/2005-bod/5a.pdf http://www.aota.org/members/area6/2005-bod/5b.pdf >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/05 6:27 AM >>> Aren't "those AOTA people" supposed to be the the practitioners voices? Identification comes from the top. How about OT awareness instead of backpack awareness. Carmen Aguirre wrote: >What can you do to help solve the problem? >It is really easy for all of us to sit and complaint about the endless disappointments we have encountered in our practice. I am sure there are more coming... >The question is: What can we do to help solve the problem? Cont Ed in Occupational Based intervention?, Study groups with our peers re: Occupational Based assessments/interventions?, Contact a local shelter and have patients collect/make/ help with need?. Collect and box coats for the local homeless shelters ? >volunteer with our state associations? Mentor a student? Mentor a peer?, continue to do a dis-service to our clients and pretend/wish we were P.T's? ... >How can we, the very practitioners affected by this lack of identity, produce the change in our daily practice? Each one of us has the answer, not "...those AOTA people..." >Carmen > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > From: Joe Wells<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: OTlist@OTnow.com<mailto:OTlist@OTnow.com> > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:21 PM > Subject: Re: [OTlist] my own long winded non sensical rant > > > Chris: > > A moratorium on Part B caps is expected hopefully before Jan 1. > > This is what was posted on the AOTA website today: > Cap Moratorium in Jeopardy; Action Needed Now > Congress may not pass a bill on Medicare by January 1, so grassroots action > is needed NOW to pressure members to address the cap in December. > > Joe Wells, OT > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > To: <OTlist@OTnow.com<mailto:OTlist@OTnow.com>> > Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 2:18 PM > Subject: Re: [OTlist] my own long winded non sensical rant > > > > Well it's really easy to tell someone to snap out of it. Sounds like > > common OT depression to me and you are far from alone. I have beeen in the > > profession for 8 years--five in school based. I left because I couldn't > > please the teachers who wanted one thing and I couldn't please the > > parents. They were either in denial (the lower incomes ones) since I was > > working with preschoolers and I was the first one to tell them their kids > > weren't perfect. The middle class parents always wanted endless therapy > > and nothing satisfied them. I had a great time with the kids who always > > enjoyedworking with me. Now I have been in long term care at a number of > > facilites and done a great deal of PRN as well and once again I found > > myself discouraged. I too have seen 99% exercise based therapy. I have > > done some activities when I was in a small facility and the only OT. But > > when I work with other OTs they don't want to do anything but exercise and > > minimum adls. I want to go to a facility that uses > > occupation to see what they do, I am sick and tired of AOTA people and > > educators saying basically just do occupation without telling us what to > > do specifically. I just started doing homehealth and find once again. > > Everyone wants a HH aide to bath them or they are very happy with sponge > > bathing. Most are elderly and unmotivated. Most days I wish I had the > > money to go back to school to become a PT. OT looks great on paper just > > like you said. Funny I just came to the same realization a few weeks ago > > and was talking about the same thing to a friend who works at a SNF with > > lots of modalities. She said if it wasn;tfor using all these treatments > > she would feel like a fraud, too.Gee, I guess I didn't provide much > > encouragement either. I think therapists need to get together and brain > > storm. What's going on with the part B caps?Chris OTR/'L > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com<http://www.excite.com/> > > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > -- > > Unsubscribe? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Change options? > > www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com<http://www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com> > > > > Archive? > > www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com<http://www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com> > > > > Help? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Change options? > www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com<http://www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com> > > Archive? > www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com<http://www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com> > > Help? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Unsubscribe? 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