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Occupational Therapy Case Study

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An emerging trend within the Canadian health care system is the increasing expectation of the healthcare system to conform to provide more accommodating, personalized, and flexible care to overcome common barriers individuals face. This often requires an innovative, creative, approach of skilled leadership within a diverse profession. The Occupational Therapy profession can provide this versatile care by providing a person-first/person centered approach to care, that is both purposeful and complementary to the overall inter-professional health care team (Segsworth, Sittler, & Wilson, 2006). Through using personalized goals that are meaningful to the patient, tasks and treatments that are carried out by the Occupational Therapist can add value …show more content…

Through providing evidence based practices that focus upon spanning across therapeutic interventions, creates a wide practice that can service all populations (Segsworth et al., 2006). This multidisciplinary basic science can provide a depth of knowledge that will open new opportunities for Occupational Therapy research and practice, translating to the overall addition of knowledge to the health care system (Segsworth et al., 2006). Thus this can guide therapeutic interventions, and aid in enhancing an individual’s health and well-being as a health care team member (Segsworth et al., 2006). Leadership within these areas can help shape and push our current health care system to flexible and innovative changes, providing a transformational leadership to other professions to build upon (Segsworth et al., 2006). This can then create an approach used by all health care teams to add depth and importance to moving forward in individual care (Segsworth et al., 2006). Value added services are also a unique lens to the design of services by Occupational Therapists, which can in turn keep up with every changing needs of individuals and family (Segsworth et al.,

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Hi, I’m Ruby Honrado, I have successfully completed my Bachelors degree in Occupational Therapy. ACU has taught me many skills and prepared me for my chosen career path. As an Occupational Therapist I will be working with a range of people, from those in community groups, schools, hospitals, NDIS and rural areas to name a few. The specific community group that I will be spending the majority of my time with is those faced with injury, disability, or illness. As an Occupational Therapist (OT) I will provide an assessment of those that are recovering from an injury, living with a disability or illness, assisting them in achieving any goals they have as they recover and return to daily living.

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