Inpatient Occupational Therapist
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
• Perform patient evaluations and deliver individualized treatment plans to older adult-geriatric population in a complex acute care hospital, maintaining high patient caseload with productivity in the top 5% of the department • Ensure safe patient discharges by giving timely and detailed recommendations to the interdisciplinary team and communicating effectively with patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders • Serve as Chairwoman of the Education Committee, organizing monthly discussions to review and analyze current evidence-based research on best practices in hospital acute care setting • Present quarterly to 15+ newly hired hospital nurses on ‘Role of OT for Stroke Patients in Acute Care’ • Conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses of Joint & Spine programs through one-on-one patient phone call interviews