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Registered Occupational Therapist for Renewal Rehab in Marseilles, IL at Aperion Care Skilled Nursing Facility. Aperion Care Skilled Nursing Facility in Marseilles, IL is both a Short-Term Care and Long-Term Care Facility with patients from various conditions and various ages in the adult population. Provide Evaluation and treatment on ADLs and IADLs in order assist with helping patients achieve maximum independence to return home safely. Educate patients on self-care training, techniques and strategies for and safety with ADLs and IADLs in order to ensure safe and increased quality of life upon returning home.

Interact with student and faculty in office. Prepare equipment for student on campus events. Perform general office work.

DuPage Pads is an organization that provides services to individuals that are homeless. Led groups for the homeless individual in order to teach them basic life skills.

Observed and interacted with patients at the facility. Exposed to occupational therapy sessions with patients with various conditions: Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Parkinson's Disease, and Amputation. Observed occupational therapists perform assessments, interventions, and modalities in an outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation setting.