Occupational Therapists Needed More Than Ever
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Occupational therapists promote health and teach people how to stay well and injury-free during their daily lives, from home to work and even during favorite leisure activities. They have the power to bring their patients back into present time, become mindful of their physical movements and use awareness as a tool to prevent injury. Similar to other rehabilitation therapy professions like physical...
Areas with Greatest Needs for Therapists
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Every month, a company called Wanted Technologies gathers data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and online job boards in each U.S. state and researches the number of employees in every professional occupation by city. Then, Wanted calculates the difference between the available supply of employees in each profession in each city in proportion to the demand for employees in that profession. The...
Physical Therapists Make Their Voices Heard in D.C.
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Physical therapists and traveling physical therapists are in great demand by all ages and types of patients in many different clinical settings from home, to assisted living and long term care facilities, clinics, and of course in hospitals. A career in physical therapy is widely considered to be one of the most, solid “recession proof” paths that a new college graduate or an individual in career...
Speech Language Pathology Goes Remote
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN There is a big demand for speech language pathologists and speech therapists in the schools to work with children diagnosed with developmental disorders such as Autism (where increased funding is being sought in state after state), with cognitive disorders, and articulation and language impairments. Traveling speech language pathologists and travel speech therapists are also encouraged to seek out these...
More Knee Replacements Means More Physical Therapists Needed
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN As an orthopedic nurse, I saw for myself the thriving cottage industry that is total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. What alarmed me, was the age differential in TKR surgery patients and total hip replacement (THR) patients. While relatively older individuals were the classic THR candidates, I saw younger to middle age folks routinely going under the knife to have their fragile, worn out, cartilage...