Natalie MarElia

Managed a household including meal prep and clean up, transportation for appointments, and monthly budgets.

Provided age appropriate activities for normal development.

Create and implement daily routines to maintain effective scheduling.

• Worked with healthcare employees to determine specific job qualifications
• Utilized social media sites to recruit new employees
• Scheduled interviews with other healthcare professionals
• Pre-screened resumes prior to sending to corporate hiring managers for consideration.

• Assisted patients with completing basic daily living activities such as grooming, dressing and self-feeding
• Educated patients and families on conditions, treatments and home exercises
• Implemented treatment interventions to support individual objectives in daily living, clinical, educational and vocational areas
• Monitored staff productivity and requirements through careful review of patient caseloads
• Provided great planning, organizational and interpersonal skills necessary to maintain a safe, orderly and goal directed work environment for self and the therapy team.

• Organized and facilitated department head meetings weekly to discuss patient care including current census, admissions and discharges.

• Monitored and recorded patient progress in response to therapy
• Educated patients and family members regarding diagnosis, injury prevention and therapeutic treatments
• Taught patients' uses of wheelchairs, braces, canes, crutches and prosthetic devices
• Taught patients how to live within the limits of their capabilities and celebrated their successes
• Administered massages and traction to relieve pain, improve comfort levels and decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.

• Elected as Treasurer for Student Occupational Therapy Association in 2015.
• 3.8 GPA
• Graduated in Top 5% of Class