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Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) Provides the structure for the profession of occupational therapy, the values that all occupational therapist hold true to, the scope of practice that falls under occupational therapy. It is designed for practitioners, students, other health care professionals, researchers, payers, and consumers. There has been multiple editions to the OTPF to keep up with the current practices. The OTPF is the base of all aspects for the field of OT and serves as a guideline throughout all areas of practice for OT. 

    a day in the life of an  OT Student  I think as humans we are all very complex. We serve many roles throughout the life-span, some roles over-lap, some roles we serve all the way from beginning of life, to the end of life. Some of us identify as students, teachers, siblings, aunts, uncles, friends, the list could go on and on. My current role, and the role I have served most of my life is a student. My role as a student is probably not much different than my fellow classmates. The occupation that makes up the role of a student is studying, note taking, attending classes, etc. The activities involved in note taking require writing, typing, and sometimes drawling. The task involved in these things are being able to grip a pencil in order to note-take, move my fingers in order to type. Task are the little tiny details required to do the activities that are involved in the occupations and roles that we serve. All of these work together to become my identity as an OT studen

Things are changing all the time The one thing that remains the same in the world of OT is compassion. I think I can speak for all of my classmates when I saw we truly have a love and passion for the career and our future clients.  No matter the setting, there is a burning desire to truly look at the client as a whole and extend a helping hand. Since my time at UTHSC, most of our guest speakers have told us a success story about OT, and how an OT has positively impacted them. Being that person to someone in their time of need is something that is so beautiful to me.  Maybe the world will be a little better if we have more acts of kindness in our day to day life.  We need more people in this world that will show the world love one kind act at a time, we need more  occupational  therapist.  My favorite thing about being "someone's person" is being able to help them with activities of daily living that we often take for granted. 2 years ago I had an accident that