Doing, Being & Becoming

Doing

I volunteered over 40 hours at the Occupational Therapy Hand Clinic in Kentfield, CA.

Also, volunteered around 20 hours as a teacher aid at Davidson Middle School in San Rafael, CA.

All these experiences developed my skills for a future in Occupational therapy by educating my knowledge on disorders and diseases, showing me how to interact with a patient or client, and the intervention part of getting the patient back to their meaningful occupations.

Resume- Doing

Tamera McNeil Fieldwork:resume

Being

I discovered Occupational therapy by my sister and friends of the family telling me about it. When I came to Dominican, I was a pre-nursing student.

I later decided to switch because as I grew to find out more information about Occupational therapy, I began to love it.

During the Dominican Scholarly and Creative Works Conference, students of the OT program were discussing the research they were doing about Fragile X Syndrome. This was the moment that really solidified my decision to become an occupational therapy major.

I would like to major in Occupational therapy because this field would allow me to do what I love, which is work with people, expand my knowledge and bring awareness to occupational therapy. I can see myself bringing my professional therapy experience into pediatrics and also working with neurological aspects of client therapy.

Doing, Being & Becoming Portfolio & Reference Page

‘Doing, Being and Becoming’ Paper- 3 part portfolio

Home-Care

Becoming- Literature Review

Occupational therapist's role in treating patients who experienced a stroke (cerebrovascular accident), increases patients' engagement with therapy and how intervention helps with recovery.

OT’s help people to do, to be, and change by becoming what they want through intervention (Wilcock, 1999, p.1) The role of OT’s with people who suffer from strokes by providing interventions with assistive technology, teaching healthy lifestyle tips, addressing deficits in ADL’s, providing driving evaluations, equipment recommendations, and making home modifications to improve independence and quality of life (Nilsen, & Geller, 2015, p. 1). By OT’s providing this care and support would decrease the problems that the articles discuss of the people who suffer a stroke.

Activities to help with Motor Skills

Being able to Cook again

Themes

Theme 1: Occupational therapists Roles with stroke patients - According to Umbehara, et al. (2018), patients lack independence with activities of daily living(ADL), dissatisfaction in life, and that leads to increasing need with medical assistance, but with increasing intervention after three months the patients ADL ability improved (p. 2437). This exemplifies increasing intervention will help long term.
Theme 2: Quantitative part of dealing with stroke victims- According to Logan, Gladman, Avery, Walker, Dyas, & Groom (2004), their research was about if the intervention would increase outdoor activity after stroke and with the intervention more likely to get out of the house. The data analysis provided the measured outcomes after four and ten months, and with 168 participants the overall outcome increases both groups more journeys outside within four and ten months.
Theme 3: Interventions for patients after stroke- Almhdawi, Mathiowetz, White and delMas (2016) describe task-oriented (TO) which is client-centered, focus more on motor learning, training, and principles that will make the session more productive and effective (p. 445).

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