Certified occupational therapist assistant vs therapist

Differences between certified occupational therapist assistant and therapist duties and responsibilities

Certified occupational therapist assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage wheelchair room and walkers; recommend and implement improvements to organization and ease of use.
• Provide occupational therapy services to rehabilitation, acute care, and outpatients in a hospital setting.
• Provide patient and family education concerning energy conservation techniques, precautions, and proper use of adaptive equipment.
• Educate patient on energy conservation techniques and adaptive equipment use.
• Provide patient with different types of splints.
• Train residents and health care provider in applying orthotics and prosthetics.
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Therapist example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator and BiPAP's and create or update care plans per patient needs.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of community mental health services identify in the Medicaid guidelines and attain contractual outcomes within designate time frames.
• Provide on-call crisis intervention as well as standard treatment, rehabilitation and support services with some interventions requiring specialize therapy services.
• Develop and implement an effective curriculum of DBT inform group and art therapy classes specifically tailor for chemically dependent patients.
• Provide trauma-inform individual psychotherapy, TREM group treatment protocol, and EMDR.
• Utilize current brain base therapeutic techniques to teach clients adaptive skills to utilize in daily lives.
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