Envisioning the Vision

Along this journey, I have made goals of where I would like to be and where I want to end up as a future OT practitioner. I was told once that right after grad school that a hospital setting would utilize most of my knowledge. After being in class and hearing about the multitude of optional settings that I can choose from, I am now uncertain of where I would like to start out. It could still be the hospital, or a school system/daycare, or even outpatient. I did think it was cool to learn about how OT's are helpful in hospice situations. We think about doing things that are meaningful to us while we are healthy or getting back to doing them as best we can during intervention, but also just for pure comfort and enjoyment while in hospice. This is what I love about this profession though. OT is everywhere, it is life, it is what we do. Basically we live and breathe it, but nobody knows about it. Ironic. 

Even though I don't know where I want to begin my career, I do know where I want to end up at. I have a long term goal of having my own practice, where I can integrate lots of different practitioners such as PT, Speech, and possibly others who work with clients of all ages with various diagnosis. I not only want to give the best client based care possible, but I want them to have options. I never want them to be bored with therapy. I aspire to have an aquatic area, a kitchen area, a game area catered to all ages, a sensory area, and even a spot dedicated to clients with autism (the whole spectrum) and down syndrome because sometimes they can become over stimulated by what is going on around them, but details will come later for that. I can't wait to learn more so that I can keep building on what is to come.