Certified recreational therapist vs therapist

Differences between certified recreational therapist and therapist duties and responsibilities

Certified recreational therapist example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator care, intubation, arterial line placement, mechanical ventilation, BIPAP, and CPAP.
• Provide instruction and awareness on use of adaptive equipment.
• Function as a PRN CTRS for an adult inpatient psychiatric hospital.
• Research and purchase adaptive equipment, activity supplies and daily needs for the program.
• Lead and co-lead therapeutic psychiatric rehabilitation groups.
• Create policy and procedure manual for rehabilitation unit van.
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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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