Responsibilities:
-Review patients’ medical history and asses their condition and needs
-Evaluate patients' abilities and develop a treatment plan for patients with specific goals and tasks
-Confer with physicians, patients and their families, nurses, therapists, social workers, and other members of a patient's care team
-Guide patients to perform tasks to meet their goals
-Educate a patient’s family about how to help care for and accommodate them
-Recommend and teach patients how to use adaptive equipment that will help them with daily living, such as wheelchairs and eating aides