As with all other healthcare professions, those who train and become certified as occupational or speech therapists must take continuing education courses periodically in order to keep up with the latest ...

Landing a great rehabilitation position requires more than just knowledge and great skills and the ability to showcase these to potential employers. It also requires drive, confidence, ambition and the ...

As a working physical, occupational, or speech therapist, you have set many goals in your life and achieved them. But now that you are working, and your job and home life are taking up much of your time, ...

Travel and medical careers are two terms not often associated with each other. But the high demand for traveling occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech therapists and the like means that ...

If you operate a skilled nursing facility, are you ready for MDS 3.0? As you know, the MDS is a critical part of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) program for skilled nursing. The ...

Our economy has not been fair to a majority of the US and as it continues its vicious downward spiral, undergrad students are scared to approach the real world without additional education for fear of ...

As a physical, occupational or speech therapist, you know more than most about how to tell when you're pushing your body just enough -- or too much. But are you as good at determining when your mental ...

Have you been working as an occupational, physical or speech therapist for a few years? Or are you a relatively "newly minted" rehab therapy practitioner? Regardless of how long you've been practicing, ...

Autism is prevalent today and there have been arguments made by camps, such as Jenny McCarthy's, in which a correlation from Autism to early childhood vaccinations has allegedly been drawn. However, ...

As a rehab therapist, you will have to make countless decisions, choices about the care you will be providing to your patients, and choices about how to run your practice. Like most people, you will ...

As a physical therapist, you well know how important -- and required -- taking continuing education courses is to your career, and your patients' rehabilitation. Below are just a few of the hundreds ...

If you're a newly-minted PT just out of school, or even a more seasoned veteran, and you're looking for a job, you might be a little unsure about what to look for and what you should ask about in an interview. ...

Stress is something we all have to deal with at work and outside it, and that is especially true of the healthcare professions, where the lives or the quality of life of the patients you care for often ...

As a traveling therapist you should expect to find different hospitals and healthcare facilities you work for have their own protocols. That is to be expected. We highly recommend that you become familiar ...

Gaining experience in anticipation of a physical therapy position requires time, patience and the willingness to work in a setting you might not otherwise choose for your full-time career. There are several ...

We have all heard the cliche perception is reality, which is more prevalent now than ever before. Following the recent mandate by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the HCAHPS survey ...

No one would argue with the fact that people are going to have different opinions at work and that these opinions will sometimes come into conflict. That's not always a bad thing. Without such differences, ...

PThe tyical role of the Acute Care PTheraist has changed to the oint where physical therapy is no longer about evaluation and treatment, but more about assessing for discharge placement. In most settings, ...

Rehabilitation therapists work in a variety of settings, often dictated by what kind of rehab therapy they do. A rehab therapist is someone who has been trained to assist people who are recovering from ...

If you've decided to seek work as a rehabilitation therapist, your first step will be to earn a master's degree in either physical therapy, occupational therapy or speech therapy. You'll also need to pass ...