When I think about where I would like to be employed on day, two settings that I shadowed at a lot come to my mind. First is an outpatient therapy clinic that is associated with the Cookeville Regional Hospital. In that clinic, they provided OT, PT, and speech and had a specialized pediatrics wing and a hand specialist. Being there allowed me to see a big variety of client histories and diagnoses. All the different therapies worked together in many cases using inter-professional care with the clients. This clinic would be considered a private for-profit facility because there are people that own the hospital and the branches off from it.
The second setting that I am very interested in is the school system. I observed in the Chester County school system where the OT there went to every school in the county from the elementary school to the high school. I liked how she saw a variety of things from more severe diagnoses in the high school to less severe in the lower grades. She was contracted through the Jackson-Madison County Hospital which is now owned by the West Tennessee Health Care group. The schedule that she got to hold and being able to be with her own children during the summer while working some PRN is really appealing to me for when maybe my own kids are in schools. I would not want to work in this setting right out of school as an entry level practitioner for the reason of being by myself and not having people around to learn from. Maybe I will have the opportunity to work in an outpatient facility for a few years to begin with and then can potentially change to a school system. I'm excited to see what my rotations will hold and maybe I will find another setting that I love even more.
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