Occupational Therapist

SUMMARY

The Occupational Therapist is responsible for assessing and identifying patient care needs and priorities for care through evaluation, assessment, planning, providing treatment and/or delegating care for patients with physical and/or cognitive disabilities to improve functional independence.  This process focuses on patient/family needs and assessing the patient's response to care and progress toward outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

*Commits to the mission, vision, beliefs and consistently demonstrates our core values.

*Performs and documents an initial patient evaluation and assesses the data to identify problems.

*Establishes, documents, and provides a plan of care with functional, measureable, SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) goals based on evaluation of the examination data and patient needs.

*Provides or delegates and supervises occupational therapy patient interventions in a safe, predictable manner consistent with the established data, the evaluation, and the plan of care.

*Provides and documents patient/family education regarding current condition and plan of care, including home program/discharge instructions.

*Performs and documents patient re-examination, re-evaluates the data, modifies and documents the plan of care.

*Communicates relevant patient care information to other health care professionals.

*Maintains current clinical competencies per department guidelines.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Graduation from an American Occupational Therapy Association school of Occupational Therapy and current licensure or eligibility for licensure in Nebraska required. Certification in Basic Life Support (CPR) required.