What field are you in?

[cherub]

Project Management!
I design and build commerical buildings

It's... a lot
But it's also the first career path that has felt fulfilling to me.

[♥ kittyray ♥]

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That's super cool! Finding something you find fulfilling is soooo important, so glad you found it!

[doraemon]

I'm in the medical field, and currently regretting my life choices

I had a very innocent curiosity about how the body worked, and I found it interesting enough to pursue. They said it was hard, and they said it'll be worth it. They did not mention the shit in between those two states.

[Rosie]

Project Management!
I design and build commerical buildings

It's... a lot
But it's also the first career path that has felt fulfilling to me.

I'm going for my PMP this month! In the medical device industry as a product development engineer. We work mainly on implantables like pacemakers or neurostimulators or drug delivery devices. I'm trying to move into project engineering /management soon though!

[goodnightmoon]

I work in a hospital as an Occupational Therapist! I work on rehabilitating critically ill patients to be able to return to their regular daily activities either at the level they were before injury or illness or in a modified and adapted way. Ot is so broad so I'm totally open to answering questions about it. Covid has made things crazy busy from me so things have been stressful with being understaffed and overworked but I still love what I do

Hi from an acute SLP love my OT friends!

[♥ Great White North ♥]

Hi from an acute SLP love my OT friends!

Oh my goodness hello Allied Health friend! Amazing small world. Do OT's at your site do Feeding and Swallowing assessments? I know this can be a contencious area lol

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I'm in the medical field, and currently regretting my life choices

I had a very innocent curiosity about how the body worked, and I found it interesting enough to pursue. They said it was hard, and they said it'll be worth it. They did not mention the shit in between those two states.

Oh yay medical workers unite! We should have had this during the peak of COVID and made a little healthcare/medical worker support group lol.

[goodnightmoon]

Oh my goodness hello Allied Health friend! Amazing small world. Do OT's at your site do Feeding and Swallowing assessments? I know this can be a contencious area lol

Hahaha our OTs do self-feeding as part of ADLs but SLPs do all things swallowing All swallow studies go to us! We are really lucky to have good co-treatment opportunities though. We have a great rapport with each other's departments (and this has been the case at multiple hospitals i've worked at, really) and defer to each other/request referrals often.

The neonatal ICU world, on the other hand, definitely sees a lot more territory fights though...

[♥ Great White North ♥]

Hahaha our OTs do self-feeding as part of ADLs but SLPs do all things swallowing All swallow studies go to us! We are really lucky to have good co-treatment opportunities though. We have a great rapport with each other's departments (and this has been the case at multiple hospitals i've worked at, really) and defer to each other/request referrals often.

The neonatal ICU world, on the other hand, definitely sees a lot more territory fights though...

I used to work at a site with a part time SLP. And there was only one for the whole site. So the OTs would do the bedside swallow assessments then would consult SLP for VFSS. One OT would be the feeding and swallowing lead and also do VFSS's with the SLP> I got to do that and it was so neat.

No I changed sites aaaaand have lost all my Dysphagia training as OT's don't touch it. Just adapting self feeding etc.

[goodnightmoon]

I used to work at a site with a part time SLP. And there was only one for the whole site. So the OTs would do the bedside swallow assessments then would consult SLP for VFSS. One OT would be the feeding and swallowing lead and also do VFSS's with the SLP> I got to do that and it was so neat.

No I changed sites aaaaand have lost all my Dysphagia training as OT's don't touch it. Just adapting self feeding etc.

That actually sounds like such a cool gig and multidisciplinary opportunity though, too
*eyes our very poor staffing and abundance of bedside swallow consults*

There are many days I kinda wish I went the OT or PT route, though - I don't at all regret my super cool professional experiences and I love my job itself, but there are some very...outdated (and not evidence-based) practices out there. I adore the skill of what we do and but I do, at times, envy a lot of the respect from the medical team that you guys have, especially in the hospital/ICU settings!

I applied for a PhD (awaiting admission decisions!) because I want to help with those things, especially evidence-based practice, specifically.

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Also shoutout to all the fellow healthcare workers on this thread of all disciplines It's not easy, but what you do is so important!

[doraemon]

Oh my goodness hello Allied Health friend! Amazing small world. Do OT's at your site do Feeding and Swallowing assessments? I know this can be a contencious area lol

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Oh yay medical workers unite! We should have had this during the peak of COVID and made a little healthcare/medical worker support group lol.

Apologies for the late reply. (It's mostly because I don't know my way through a forum that is not the Neoboards, and I'm sorry about that )

I got the "best" of both worlds of the pandemic - my last year of clinical training and my first year of working formally on the field fell right into the space of the Pandemic. It might have affected my mental health a lot. But it's great (horrible but great) to know I'm not alone.