Professional
OTs are autonomous, self-regulated professionals, who individually and collectively monitor and manage their personal and professional limits. Practitioners are guided by ethical codes of practice and a commitment to competence, embracing of appropriate attitudes and behaviours, integrity, altruism, attention to diversity and injustice, personal well-being, critical inquiry, and the promotion of the public good.
My Experience...
I feel that through my educational experience at Queen’s in the Occupational Therapy program, I have begun to understand what it means to be a professional and the responsibilities that comes with it. Through having the Advanced Professional Practice class within the program, really opened my eyes to what it really means to be a professional in the health care system and what needs to take place to remain credited and registered. Through my fieldwork experiences as well and observing how expert OTs present themselves to their colleagues as well as clients, has taught me so much in regards to how to be a professional, and I am grateful that I was in the midst to be able to learn from such experts in the field.
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I will become educated and enrolled in my provincial and national registration organizations when I am a registered OT and uphold the responsibilities that comes with the registration.