Occupational Therapists - Workplace

  • Long, Paula J., and Lynnda J. Emery. 2000. Continuing Education: A Clinician’s Guide to Monitoring and Promoting Competence, Occupational Therapy in Health Care 12(4).

“The purpose of this article is to describe three themes related to continuing education and competence that emerged in a review of the professional literature. These three themes are elements of competence, monitoring competence and methods to promote competence to assist clinicians in their own professional development.”  

  • Rugg, Sue. March 2006. Junior occupational therapists' continuity of employment: what influences success? Occupational Therapy International 6(4): 277–97.
 
“This article details a study that investigated the influence of selected personal and environmental variables on British occupational therapists’ continuity of employment one year post-qualification.”
 
  • Schaber, Patricia L. 2001. Qualitative Evaluation of a Management Course Project: Creating New Job Possibilities for Occupational Therapy. Occupational Therapy in Health Care 15(1/2):177–92.
 
“A qualitative analysis of a ten-step management course project in occupational therapy education demonstrates the students changed perception of future job possibilities. The assignment, designed using a student-centered approach, bridges individual skills and interests with the creation of an occupational therapy position in an emerging market.”
 
  • Scheerer, Carol. 2001. The Partnering Model: Occupational Therapy Assistant and Occupational Therapy Students Working Together. Occupational Therapy in Health Care 15(1/2): 193–208.
 
“Establishing a partnering relationship between the occupational therapy assistant (OTA) and the occupational therapist (OT) is imperative in order to create an optimal working environment and deliver effective client care. A developmental model that provides students with opportunities to practice such a relationship has been used by an OTA and OT program in southwestern Ohio.”
 
  • Randolph, Diane Smith, and Steven P. Johnson. January/February 2005. Predicting the Effect of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Job Satisfaction Factors on Recruitment and
Retention of Rehabilitation Professional. Journal of Healthcare Management 50(1): 49–60.
 
“The purpose of this study was to ascertain which extrinsic and intrinsic job satisfaction areas are most predictive of rehabilitation professionals’ career satisfaction and desire to stay on the job.”
 
  • Simhoni, Orit, and Lori T. Anderson. 2002. Fieldwork: A Road to Employment. Occupational Therapy in Health Care 16(1).
 
“While the goal of occupational therapy fieldwork education is to prepare entry level practitioners, over time, it has been linked to various professional concerns…. In light of these issues and the current changes in the health care arena, the authors explored the relationship between fieldwork and employment of an OT program’s graduates.”
 
  • Wyrick, J. M., and E. B. Stern. March 1997. The recruitment of occupational therapy students: A national survey. American Journal of Occupational Therapy 41(3): 173–78.
 
“This national survey was designed to study selected characteristics of entry level occupational therapy students and to compare recruitment variables in technical and professional students.”