Clinical Privileges / ISU Internship / Employment / Higher Education / Professional Resources

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Clinical Privileges / ISU Internship / Employment
/ Higher Education / Professional Resources

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What are Clinical Privileges?

• Permission to provide medical or other patient
  care services in the granting institution, within
  well-defined limits, based on the individuals
  professional license/certification, experience,
  competence, ability, judgment.
• Set by individual governing boards of hospital
  using criteria set by that hospital.

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Clinical Privileges

• Core privileges scope of procedures and
  activities within a specialty that each
  practitioner is competent to practice
• Supplemental/special privileges procedures and
  activities that require additional training,
  skills, or competencies
• Requires permission or privilege to perform
• TR and massage
• TR and counseling

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Clinical Privileges

• Difference between CP credentialing
• Both protect consumer
• CP examines clinical performance
• CP grants permission to perform specified
  activities within a specific hospital
• Types of clinical privilege
• Fully competent
• Supervision required
• Not approved

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ISU TR Internships
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ISU TR Internships

• Select based on desired learning experiences vs.
  close to home or familiar
• Should try both community and clinical
  experiences (Junior Senior)
• Should not be in an agency where you did junior
  internship or have spent much time volunteering
• Give serious consideration to approved sites (See
  intern files)

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ISU TR Internships

• Sites approved base on NCTRC job tasks
• Also evaluate for other criteria
• Qualifications of setting
• Qualifications of professional
• Adherence to internal external standards

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ISU TR Internships

• Approval process
• Forms at initial approval
• Forms after initial approval
• TRIE evaluation (midterm and final)
• Competency assessment (accreditation)
• Before and after internship
• Student and supervisor

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ISU TR Internships

• ONLY 1 STUDENT PER AGENCY
• Competitive
• Make sure a fit between you and the agency

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Employment
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Future TR Employment Predictions

• Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2012-2013 Edition
• U.S. Dept. of Labor
• Grow faster than average
• Increase 17
• Increases in
• Nursing residential services for aging
• Educational settings for youth (?)
• Outpatient settings
• (SK) Veterans hosptials

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Future TR Employment Predictions

• Expected to decline
• Hospitals
• Opportunities best for people with B.S. degree in
  TR with CTRS
• With specialized certificates

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MSN Careers 5 Health-care Jobs for Bachelors
Degree Holders

• Athletic trainer
• Dietitian and nutritionist
• Medical and clinical laboratory technologist and
  technician
• Occupational health and safety specialist
• Recreational therapist

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Show Me the Money

• Median annual in 2010
• 39, 410
• Median for all occupations 33,840
• Lowest 10
• Under 24,640
• Top 10
• Over 62,670
• Occupational Outlook Handbook

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Show Me the Money

• Factors
• Years of experience
• Degree level
• Specific region
• Type of agency
• Certification

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Show Me the Money

• For a look at salary ranges in a specific city,
  go to www.salary.com
• Select Salary Wizard
• Sports Recreation
• Recreational Therapist
• Example A Recreational Therapist working in
  Champaign, IL earns an average of 40,048

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Show Me the Money
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Show Me the Money
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Job Searches

• ATRA
• IPRA
• ISU TR Alum Facebook
• www.recreationtherapy.com
• www.usajobs.gov
• www.iHireTherapy.com
• http//jobs.disabilityscoop.com/search_results.php
  
• www.monster.com
• Others
• Remember to look at various titles

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Higher Education
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Graduate School

• Who has thought about going to graduate school?
• Why?
• Where?
• What major?
• When?
• Masters? Doctorate?
• Questions about graduate school?

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Graduate School --- Requirements

• 3.0 (0ut of 4.0) GPA or higher
• Overall GPA
• Junior/Senior year
• Last 60 hours
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
• Professional recommendations
• Undergraduate faculty in your area

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Graduate School --- Requirements

• Application fee (non-refundable)
• Statement of career goals
• Resume
• On campus faculty interview
• On campus writing exercise

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Graduate School

• Financial Assistance
• Tuition/fee waivers
• Graduate assistantships
• Scholarships
• Culminating Experience
• Thesis
• Non-thesis (sometimes more hours)
• Paper
• Professional practice

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Graduate School

• Not like undergraduate
• Need to read, think, write
• Need to be self motivated
• Need to be able to structure time
• Need to be able to work independently
• Not for everyone or needed by everyone

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Professional Resources
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Journals

• Therapeutic Recreation Journal
• Annual in Therapeutic Recreation
• American Journal of Recreation Therapy
• Palestra
• Sports n Spokes
• Others

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Publishers

• Sagamore Publishing
• Venture Publishing
• Idyll Arbor
• ATRA

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Conferences

• ATRA
• NRPA
• IPRA
• ILRTA
• CIRCLE
• Midwest Symposium
• Conference at Sea