Occupational Therapist Assistant - Houston, United States - Dunamis healthcare services

Description

• PEDI OR ADULT.
• Perform clinical assessment; identify patient needs and appropriateness of patient.
• Assess and facilitate through direct therapeutic intervention patient's ROM, strength coordination, need for use of adaptive equipment and environmental modifications, functional mobility and safety issues as related to patients ADL performance needs. Fabricate and maintain adaptive equipment and hand splints.
• Applies concepts of infection control standard precautions in coordinating/performing patient care activities to prevent contamination and transmission of disease.
• Accepts clinical assignments that are consistent with education and competence to care for patients.
• Document, prepare/revise and complete Plan of Care, progress notes, phone orders and other clinical record documentation on an ongoing basis.
• Assess sensory-motor neuromuscular, psycho-social, and cognitive-perceptual components of occupational behavior.
• Assess physical, social, and cultural components of the patient's occupational environment.