Currently, I work for South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department (SCVRD). I am an Assessment and Career Exploration Specialist and also a Job Preparedness Instructor. While I enjoy my current role, I feel the need to carry out a more significant function in the rehabilitation process. I am seeking a Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling because it is a requirement for the next step in my career. Well into the future, I envision myself in a leadership role within my current agency where I am able to advise on agency practices and service provision. I feel that it is necessary to have a vast working knowledge in the largest service provided by our agency, Rehabilitation Counseling. This degree will give me the qualifications to provide this service to those in my community who have disabilities. I look forward to explaining my experience, my plans for completing the program requirements, …show more content…
As I progress in my career, I feel that it is important to develop a personal style and technique that clients can relate to. I am also interested in learning more about assessments and evaluations as they drive the rehabilitation plan. While I have assessed hundreds of clients, I realize that there is more to learn. For instance, the trend over the next five years will be an increase in applicants who receive state-plan home and community based services. The Final Rule issued by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid will require that individuals receive services in the most integrated settings. As a result, this new demographic will directly impact VR offices around the country as new interest is shown in our services. For these reasons, the Masters of Rehabilitation Counseling program at the University Of South Carolina School of Medicine is of interest to
Resident E.V. has demonstrated the ability to cope by displaying effective coping patterns. She has the desire to become both healthier and live a healthier life style. Her goal is to gain recovery so she can walk on her own again and eventually move back into her house to help take care of her husband, whom has dementia. She is willing to modify her lifestyle accordingly if she is unable to gain complete recovery. However, she would like to be as independent as possible.
It was a privilege to work with Laura on a team rehabilitating a severely impaired brainstem CVA patient. She uses evidence based practice to modify treatment approaches to promote positive outcomes for both her patients physical needs as well as cognitive-communicative needs. A perfect example of this was scheduling her PT session prior to an SLP comm/cog session with increasing cardiovascular effort to promote improved cognitive
Goal 2: To train staff in a continual manner to ensure knowledge and resources can be provided to clients Goal 3: To provide community outreach to ensure potential clients know their options and better life circumstances of veterans and beneficiaries VAI Values
Within the MFP (Money Follows the Person) program, there has been numerous research performed regarding reinstitution rates, and smaller focus on transition strategies to adequately prepare consumers for returning to the community. Current practice focuses on initiatives to transition persons in institutional settings to community-based waiver services; individuals do not have to wait for community-based services, which have long interest lists. The policies in place outline best practice of collaboration across the broad spectrum, however there is no outlined focus on preparation for success. It is the goal of this writer to develop a standardized plan of care, utilizing evidence based practice to improve patient outcomes. The purpose of this evidence-based practice immersion project will determine if implementation of a readmissions reduction program effects 90 day readmission
A little over two years ago, I started working as a Community Support Individual for Pathways Transition Programs LLC. My primary responsibility is to teach children various coping skills to manage their behavior, I have determined that I want to be able to address the emotions behind the behaviors. My desire is to be able to help the children I work with come to terms with their past histories so they can move on in their lives towards adoption and other positive outcomes. Sometimes, the children are still going through issues such as, on-going traumas, the lost of a parent due to death or incarceration, etc and I would like to develop the skill set to be able to address these issues. I see pursuing my degree through Argosy University as being the next step to take in order to develop a competency in counseling.
World Health Organization (WHO) has defined disability as an umbrella term for impairments. Disability is an individual with a health condition such as Down syndrome cerebral palsy and depression, body functioning or structure on activity limitation. WHO, (2016) supported that people with learning difficulties they deserve privacy and dignity like everyone The Health and community Care Act 1990 protect people service users from abuse or neglect so that deterioration can be prevented or to promote physical or mental health and to allow independence and social inclusion. It also to improve opportunities and life chances, to help families and to protect human rights around people in need of the services. It has been argued Department of health, (2015) state that “people are living longer, which means there are likely to be more people with complex
Personal Statement I am writing to express my continued interest in earning a graduate degree in Rehabilitation Counseling. I applied for, and was accepted in the Masters of Rehabilitation Counseling program at Northern Illinois University for the fall of 2016. However, as a result of conflicts with work and class hours I was unable to start attending classes until the fall of 2017. Before I earned my undergraduate degree from the College of Health and Human Sciences, I volunteered in the AmeriCorps program for two years.
From OBRA-87, I learn that health care providers need to partnership with nursing, activities staff, and other departments in order to provide effective services to patients when working in nursing home facilities. I also learn that Ross’s five stages technique can help patients to reestablish the likelihood of an automatic, habitual response, and restore environmental interaction. By utilizing the Ross’s five stages method in certified nursing facilities, residents will be able to maintain and improve their ability to complete
As a first-year student, the struggle of finding a future career path was evident in my life. I delved into Speech Language Pathology through attending a Kearney Student
Personal Statement for Nursing School “When a person decides to become a Nurse. They make the most important decision of their lives. They choose to dedicate themselves to the care of others” Growing up in Nigeria; I had my first introduction to the field of medicine at the age of 6. At the time, my grand father was a holistic doctor at my local community. Whenever my grandfather went to work, he would take me with him and I remembered being very fascinated by how people would come in to get treatments for different kinds of diseases.
Setting goals ensures important actions are not overlooked. The process of goal setting is seen as one of the key skills to characterise professionals working in rehabilitation (Wade, 1998). The value of goal setting for interdisciplinary teamwork is undoubted (Schut and Stam, 1994) and rehabilitation
My qualifications that demonstrate my ability to be an asset to your Master Degree program of Education of the Deaf, is my background in Deaf Studies where I have received my Associate degree at Quinsigamond Community college. Furthermore, my degree has allotted me the necessary communication skills and cultural sensitivity, needed in order for me to work with the individual who has been the diagnosis of hard of hearing and deaf. In addition to my educational background, some of the following course have further my ability to better understand and work with individuals within the American Sign Language community is my Intermediate ASL 1&2, Introduction to the field of interpreting, and American Deaf -Culture to name a few. My reasons
To enhance my experience I would like to work with veterans, adult homeless, and the mentally ill. My objective is to be admitted into the Master of Science degree program with an option in Rehabilitation Counseling, where I can grow and take on new challenges. Ultimately, I would like to assume further educational and gain work experience that would allow me to work more effectively with people with disabilities. Most importantly, I would like to work for an agency where I can build a career in counseling and possibly management. I am driven to be the best at what I do.
The second factor that attracted me to your program is: “design and implement research studies that will contribute to the knowledge base of rehabilitation science.” As I noticed, there is a significant amount of research coming out of your school, and this is very essential for a person interested in research like myself. During my post graduate diploma and master programs, I studied low back pain comprehensively. However, I want to take this passion into an advanced level. I am a very motivated person and one of my objectives from your program is to gain in-depth, scientific knowledge that will support my dissertation research.
The present paper attempts to highlight the concept of rehabilitation and rehabilitation psychology with the primary focus on the rehabilitation of people, the goals, process, the professionals involved, competence requires as well as problems faced in the rehabilitation are described. The emerging field as rehabilitation psychology emphasizes on the types of intervention programs, activities, outcomes, applications and services given. The most essential aspect of rehabilitation being disability, therefore focus has been given on the definition and classification of disability along with a glimpse on the causes. The major models of disability have been discussed with major concern on the causes of disability and the beliefs associated with