- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who plans, organizes, and directs medically approved recreation program for patients in hospitals and other institutions. Responsibilities include:
* Directs and organizes such activities as sports, dramatics, games, and arts and crafts to assist patients to develop interpersonal relationships, to socialize effectively, and to develop confidence needed to participate in group activities.
* Regulates content of program in accordance with patients' capabilities, needs and interests.
* Instructs patients in relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing, concentration, and other activities, to reduce stress and tension.
* Instructs patients in calisthenics, stretching and limbering exercises, and individual and group sports.
* Counsels and encourages patients to develop leisure activities.
* Organizes and coordinates special outings and accompanies patients on outings, such as ball games, sightseeing, or picnics to make patients aware of available recreational resources.
* Prepares progress charts and periodic reports for medical staff and other members of treatment team, reflecting patients' reactions and evidence of progress or regression.
* May supervise and conduct in-service training of other staff members, review their assessments and program goals, and consult with them on selected cases.
* May train groups of volunteers and students in techniques of recreation therapy.
* May serve as consultant to employers, educational institutions, and community health programs.
* May prepare and submit requisition for needed supplies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, coordinates, and conducts therapeutic gardening program to facilitate rehabilitation of physically and mentally handicapped patients. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with medical staff and patients to determine patients' needs.
* Evaluates patients' disabilities to determine gardening programs.
* Conducts gardening sessions to rehabilitate, train, and provide recreation for patients.
* Revises gardening program, based on observations and evaluation of patients' progress.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and conducts art therapy programs in public and private institutions to rehabilitate mentally and physically disabled clients. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with members of medically oriented team to determine physical and psychological needs of client.
* Devises art therapy program to fulfill physical and psychological needs.
* Instructs individuals and groups in use of various art materials, such as paint, clay, and yarn.
* Appraises client's art projections and recovery progress.
* Reports findings to other members of treatment team and counsels on client's response until art therapy is discontinued.
* Maintains and repairs art materials and equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and directs medically prescribed music therapy activities as part of mental and physical health care and treatment of patients to influence behavioral and psychological changes leading to restoration, maintenance, and improvement of health and increased comprehension of self, environment, and physical ability. Responsibilities include:
* Collaborates with other members of rehabilitation team in planning music activities in accordance with patients' physical or psychological needs, capabilities, and interests.
* Develops treatment plan, using individualized needs assessment, depending on focus of therapy, such as hospice, psychiatric, or obstetrics.
* Directs and participates in instrumental and vocal music activities designed to meet patients' physical or psychological needs, such as solo or group singing, rhythmic and other creative music activities, music listening, or attending concerts.
* Instructs patients individually or in groups in prescribed instrumental or vocal music and music projective techniques, such as guided imagery, progressive relaxation, awareness of conscious feelings, or musically intergraded Lamaze Method.
* Studies and analyzes patients' reactions to various experiences and prepares reports describing symptoms indicative of progress or regression.
* Submits periodic reports to treatment team or physician to provide clinical data for evaluation.
* May oversee practicum and approved internships.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and leads dance and body movement activities to improve patients' mental outlooks and physical well-beings. Responsibilities include:
* Observes and evaluates patient's mental and physical disabilities to determine dance and body movement treatment.
* Confers with patient and medical personnel to develop dance therapy program.
* Conducts individual and group dance sessions to improve patient's mental and physical well-being.
* Makes changes in patient's program based on observation and evaluation of progress.
* Attends and participates in professional conferences and workshops to enhance efficiency and knowledge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who arranges salaried, productive employment in actual work environment for mentally ill patients, to enable patients to perform medically prescribed work activities, and to motivate and prepare patients to resume employment outside hospital environment. Responsibilities include:
* Determines work activities for greatest therapeutic value for particular patient within limits of patient's disability.
* Plans work activities in coordination with other members of rehabilitation team.
* Assigns patient to work activity and evaluates patient's progress.
* Processes payroll records and salary distribution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers physical therapy treatments to patients, working under direction of and as assistant to physical therapist . Responsibilities include:
* Administers active and passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, and heat, light, sound, water, and electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, ultraviolet, infrared, and hot and cold packs.
* Administers traction to relieve neck and back pain, using intermittent and static traction equipment.
* Instructs, motivates, and assists patients to learn and improve functional activities, such as preambulation, transfer, ambulation, and daily-living activities.
* Observes patients during treatments and compiles and evaluates data on patients' responses to treatments and progress and reports orally or in writing to physical therapist.
* Fits patients for, adjusts, and trains patients in use and care of orthopedic braces, prostheses, and supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, walkers, and wheelchairs.
* Confers with members of physical therapy staff and other health team members, individually and in conference, to exchange, discuss, and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, and coordinating treatment programs.
* Gives orientation to new physical therapist assistants and directs and gives instructions to physical therapy aides .
* Performs clerical duties, such as taking inventory, ordering supplies, answering telephone, taking messages, and filling out forms.
* May measure patient's range-of-joint motion, length and girth of body parts, and vital signs to determine effects of specific treatments or to assist physical therapist to compile data for patient evaluations.
* May monitor treatments administered by physical therapy aides.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists blind and visually impaired clients to achieve personal adjustment and maximum independence through training in techniques of daily living. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews clients, analyzes client's lifestyle, and administers assessment tests to determine present and required or desired orientation and mobility skills.
* Trains clients in awareness of physical environment through sense of smell, hearing, and touch, and to travel alone, with or without cane, through use of variety of actual or simulated travel situations and exercises.
* Teaches clients personal and home management skills, and communication skills, such as eating, grooming, dressing, coin and money identification, cooking, and use of telephone and bathroom facilities.
* Teaches clients to protect body, using hands and arms to detect obstacles.
* Instructs clients in arts, crafts, and recreational skills, such as macrame, leatherworking, sewing, ceramics, and playing piano to improve sense of touch, coordination, and motor skills.
* Teaches clients to read and write Braille.
* Instructs client in use of reading machines and common electrical devices, and in development of effective listening techniques.
* Instructs clients in group activities, such as swimming, dancing, or playing modified sports activities to encourage and increase capacity for social participation and improve general health.
* Prepares progress report to allow members of rehabilitation team to evaluate clients' ability to perform varied activities essential to daily living.
* May develop and implement individualized orientation and mobility instructional program for blind and visually impaired and be designated Orientation And Mobility Instructor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts physical integration program to improve client's muscular function and flexibility. Responsibilities include:
* Determines client's medical history regarding accidents, operations, or chronic health complaints to plan objectives of program, using questionnaire.
* Photographs client to obtain different views of client's posture to facilitate treatment, using camera.
* Instructs client to demonstrate arm and leg movement and flexion of spine to evaluate client against established program norms.
* Determines program treatment procedures and discusses goals of program with client.
* Applies skin lubricant to section of body specified for treatment and massages muscles to release subclinical adhesions either manually or using hand held tool, utilizing knowledge of anatomy.
* Demonstrates and directs client's participation in specific exercises designed to fatigue desired muscle groups and release tension.
* Observes client's progress during program through such factors as increased joint movement, improved posture, or coordination.
* Records client's treatment, response, and progress.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides medically prescribed program of physical exercises and activities designed to prevent muscular deterioration resulting from long convalescence or inactivity due to chronic illness. Responsibilities include:
* Collaborates with other members of rehabilitation team in organizing patients' course of treatment.
* Establishes rapport with patients to motivate them, choosing exercises and activities in accordance with prescription.
* Utilizes any or combination of resistive, assistive, or free movement exercises, utilizing bars, or hydrogymnastics.
* Instructs patients in use, function, and care of prostheses and devices, such as braces, crutches, or canes and in use of manually controlled vehicles.
* Directs blind persons in foot travel.
* Prepares progress reports of patient's emotional reactions to and progress in training by observing patient during exercises to provide clinical data for diagnosis and prognosis by rehabilitation team.
* Directs patients in techniques of personal hygiene to compensate for permanent disabilities.
Industry:Professional careers
