Occupational Therapist - Bomar Rehab

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Job Details Job Location: Nacogdoches, TX Position Type: Full Time Salary Range: Undisclosed Job Shift: Day

Full Benefits Package

• Generous benefit plans that start the 1st of the month following your start date
• High Reliability Organization
• Committed to patient safety and to our employees
• Additional options for dental, vision, life, disability coverage, flexible spending accounts
• Retirement Plan – 457(b)
• Hospital paid Life Insurance
• Employee Discount at our onsite Starbucks, Café, and Gift Shop
• ATM onsite
• Fresh Vending
• Free on-site parking
• Colleague recognition program
• Paid time off

Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital – Celebrating 90+ years of caring for our community. Our team combines compassion and kindness with the latest technology and advanced treatments to deliver care.

Services Include: Cardiac Services, Fast Track, ICU, Emergency Room, Incontinence Therapy, Medical Imaging, Nutrition Services, Physical Rehabilitation, Stroke Action Plan, Surgery.

The Occupational Therapist is responsible for the assessment of referred patients, ranging in age from 18 years to geriatric, who are experiencing rehabilitation conditions or medical surgical conditions requiring rehabilitation and/or wound care needs. Responsible to provide direct patient care, assess functioning in activities of everyday living to support independent living. To establish and administer a treatment program with specific goals determined according to the patient’s capacity and tolerance under the direction of a Physician.

Educates patients and families in appropriate occupational therapy methods.

• Performs age-appropriate patient assessment and establishes plan of care.
• Obtains/verifies physician order for therapy and validates appropriateness.
• Reviews available medical records and obtains pertinent medical history from patient or family.
• Ensures that patient has given informed consent to treatment.
• Evaluates each patient using age and diagnosis appropriate assessment tests and measurements, including appropriate outcome assessment tool(s).
• Integrates assessment results to identify functional problems and prioritizes care needs with patient and family.
• Sets appropriate, measurable, functional goals with time frames to address the identified problems.
• Determines plan for care and appropriate therapeutic interventions to achieve stated goals.
• Initiates therapy discharge planning in collaboration with care team and patient based on prognosis and expected discharge disposition.
• Demonstrates competence in the performance of age-appropriate patient assessment and individualizes care based on age specific needs.
• Uses therapeutic treatment techniques appropriate to patient age and desire for treatment.
• Performs treatment procedures that are within the scope of the professional license.
• Performs/delegates technical procedures appropriately and safely.
• Determines patient response to treatment and evaluates progress (reassessment).
• Educates patient and family through instruction, demonstration, and/or appropriate handouts in treatment plan, safety issues, home.

Welcome to Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas and the official Texas. Nacogdoches is known for the Texas Blueberry Festival, a 300-year-old city, home of Stephen

F. Austin State University, population 33,000, and recognized as the Garden Capital of Texas. It’s a live music destination with beautiful natural surroundings.

• Texas Occupational Therapist Licensure (required)
• AHA BLS certification (required)
• Inpatient Rehab Hospital experience (strongly preferred)
• Ability to read, write, and communicate in English (required)