Jane Berger
Avon,CO
Summary
To deliver a positive approach, and maintain professional growth as a registered Occupational Therapist, while delivering the highest quality of treatment for individuals' optimal level of function.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Occupational Therapist
Home Care and Hospice of the Valley
12.2019 - 08.2021
- Evaluate, assess, and document patient progress accurately and efficiently, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Provided interventions and treatments to improve patient abilities to perform daily activities, manage symptoms and prevent injury.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members for comprehensive patient care and optimal results.
- Provided treatment, home programs, and education to patients and families for increased independence with overall function
- Promoted independence in activities of daily living through exercise, task analysis, environmental adaptations, and compensatory techniques.
Occupational Therapist
Sandrock Ridge Care & Rehab
01.2006 - 01.2016
- Evaluated and treated adults in rural area-all ages, all diagnoses including CVA, MS, arthritis, cardiac rehab, amputation, burn, fractures, TBI, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic pain, MD, joint replacement, COPD, pneumonia
- Provided education to empower patients and families to understand conditions, provided support and encouragement
- Provided home evaluations, education, and recommendations for safety in the home
- Team player with patients, families, and coworkers
Occupational Therapist
Moffat County School District
01.2004 - 01.2006
- Evaluate children for occupational therapy services in grades K-12, and provide treatment plans to meet individual abilities and needs.
- Participate in various interdisciplinary meetings with team and with parents of students for comprehensive care and optimal results
- Involved in planning, programming, implementing and ordering materials needed for students' progress
- Provided interventions and treatments to improve students abilities to perform daily activities, and demonstrate functional, emotional, and educational growth.
Occupational Therapist
Kremmling Memorial Hospital
01.2000 - 01.2004
- Evaluate and treat a variety of diagnoses, and all ages in a rural hospital in and out patients
- Instrumental in implementing the occupational therapy program including writing protocols for the hospital
- Responsible for billing and scheduling patients
- Documented patient progress accurately and efficiently
- Developed customized home exercise programs, enabling patients to maintain progress outside of therapy sessions. provided home evaluations, recommendations for safety in the home
- Provided education, to empower patients and families to understand conditions, treatments and provided home evaluations for safety upon discharge in the home.
Occupational Therapist
Penrose Hospital-Psychiatric Unit
01.1998 - 01.2000
- Evaluate baseline of patients’ physical/cognitive and emotional status, obtain information about their history from family members, as needed
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members for comprehensive patient care, and discharge planning for individualized optimal results.
- Promoted independence in function, including planning, organizing, problem solving, decision making through task analysis, success oriented activities and compensatory techniques.
- Documented patient progress accurately and efficiently, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Occupational Therapist
Presbyterian/St. Lukes Hospital
01.1990 - 01.1998
- Evaluate and treat patients needing occupational therapy services to obtain optimal level of functioning with activities of daily living
- Educate in exercise and adaptive equipment for increased independence
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members for comprehensive patient care and optimal results.
- Enhanced overall quality of life for patients with chronic conditions by addressing physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and sensory impairments.
- Research and evaluate patients medical records
- Provide detailed treatment plans and realistic goals
Occupational Therapist
Hand Therapy Specialists
01.1986 - 10.1989
- Provided evaluations, treatment, and home program for hand therapy adult clientele with neurological and physical injuries to the hand and arm
- Fitted, fabricated, modified, and ordered various types of splints for patients
- Provided education, exercise and home programs to improve patient abilities to function
Education
Baccalaureate of Science Degree - Occupational Therapy
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Mi01.1984
Skills
- Family and patient education
- Clinical reasoning
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Direct patient care
- Goal setting experience
- Activity analysis
Affiliations
- National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy
- State of Colorado: Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Registrations
Timeline
Occupational Therapist
Home Care and Hospice of the Valley
12.2019 - 08.2021
Occupational Therapist
Sandrock Ridge Care & Rehab
01.2006 - 01.2016
Occupational Therapist
Moffat County School District
01.2004 - 01.2006
Occupational Therapist
Kremmling Memorial Hospital
01.2000 - 01.2004
Occupational Therapist
Penrose Hospital-Psychiatric Unit
01.1998 - 01.2000
Occupational Therapist
Presbyterian/St. Lukes Hospital
01.1990 - 01.1998
Occupational Therapist
Hand Therapy Specialists
01.1986 - 10.1989
Baccalaureate of Science Degree - Occupational Therapy
Eastern Michigan University
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