Pediatric occupational therapist vs therapist

Differences between pediatric occupational therapist and therapist duties and responsibilities

Pediatric occupational therapist example responsibilities.

• Participate in IEP planning and goal writing for students to help them achieve as much academic success as possible.
• Train PRN staff on Medicare / Medicaid reimbursement documentation and facility policies.
• Apply sensory integration approach with children to promote adaptive responses for improve interactions within environments.
• Create and implement skil occupational therapy services with pediatric patients to promote safety and independence with their occupational performance.
• Oversee COTA (s) and direct plan of care.
• Supervise COTA's and students.
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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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