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Therapy License Worthy of a Careful Review as We Begin 2012

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 01.13.2012 | Category Career Tips, Education, Occupational Therapy, Speech Language Pathologist, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Travel Therapist, Travel physical therapy jobs, physical therapist licensing, physical therapy

With a brand new year under way, it’s time to get organized—and in your therapy career the most logical place to start is making sure your therapy license is in order. Travel Force is proud to provide therapy career resources that include links to all 50 U.S. physical therapy boards and 24/7 access to customer care should questions arise about obtaining state licensure in one or multiple states. Remember that we post new jobs round the clock, offering high paying opportunities in both travel therapy jobs and permanent jobs.

Travel Therapists will want to obtain multiple state licenses, so that when new travel physical therapy jobs open up from coast to coast, you’re ready to accept immediately. As an incentive, our staffing agency provides, whenever applicable, reimbursement for licensure board costs and travel expenses. Call 1-800-617-0608 or apply online to open up a line of communication with our recruiting team; they’ll want to discuss how far you can take your therapy career and what you need to do to get the ball rolling.

Whether you’re comfortable in your current therapy job or planning your next move, bookmarking our therapy career resources page is a great idea; it’ll help you stay current on allied health trends, events, and matters concerning your continuing education and earning potential.

Therapy Career Links Worth Remembering

OTA’s, physical and occupational therapists, as well as speech language pathologists will want to familiarize themselves with these sites, useful for anyone in therapy jobs and physical therapy jobs at Travel Force Staffing.

• Physical Therapy Boards
• Occupational Therapy Associations
• Speech Language Pathology Associations

Once again, don’t pass on making the New Year your perfect excuse to check in with your state licensure board. You’ll want to ensure no complaints have been filed, and no expiration have passed on continuing education requirements; a failure to meet these standards or forget to pay small periodic fees could result in the revocation of your state board issued therapy license—and nobody wants that. It’s just a gentle reminder from your #1 staffing agency. We know you’re in control of your therapy career and ready to prosper this year. Happy 2012 everyone!

Therapy Jobs in Featured U.S. Cities are in Time for Holiday Cheer

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 12.20.2011 | Category Apple iPad, Fun Events, Locations, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapist Jobs, Therapist Jobs, Therapist Jobs Postings, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Top Therapy Blogs, physical therapy, rehabilitation therapy

Silver bells are ringing from California and the American southwest to the East coast, where therapy jobs for occupational and physical therapists, PTA jobs and Rehabilitation therapy jobs are HOT, featured in towns where plenty of fun and inspiring holiday events are taking place.

PT, OT and Other Therapy Jobs Jingle in the Lover’s State and Enchanting New Mexico!

What PT or occupational therapist could resist New Mexico this time of year, where throughout December it’s a festival of light; with candlelit walkways lighting up the desert sand, storefronts and cafes can’t help but entice shoppers to drop in for a Mexican hot chocolate. Starting a therapy job in time to catch the December-long “Albuquerque River of Lights” is a surefire way to illuminate the New Year with great possibilities! Much further east, featured therapy jobs in Falls Church, VA will delight Christmas lovers everywhere, especially during New Year’s Eve, as events like “Watch Night” unfold near the historic crossroads of Broad and Washington streets.

Why Physical and Occupational Therapists Will Love Holiday Shopping in California

On the West Coast, holiday events appeal to everyone from revelers to wine and pet lovers. From now through January, Palm Springs California, where OTs pull in a competitive occupational therapist salary, is host to some of the finest winter wine tastings in the state. Further north, the city of Hayward is decked out with the annual “Light up the Season” display, and so close to San Francisco that therapists looking to adopt a furry friend might check out “Macy’s Holiday Windows”. Throughout the holiday season and until New Year’s Day, the San Francisco SPCA is hosting *Meet Your Match*, via Macy’s window shopping; click the Macy’s link to view the video! It behooves us to remind everyone that, in our therapy jobs, we welcome Travelers’ pets!

Travel Force Staffing is giving Away the Ultimate Gift: an iPad2! Apply today to Learn More!

We hope we’ve motivated you to apply online or call 1-800-617-0608 for excellent therapist career opportunities, bound to light up your life. Don’t delay, as we are—for a limited time—giving the iPad2 to therapists who complete physical therapy or occupational therapy jobs with us. So give us a ring…or a jingle. Happy holidays!

Occupational Therapist Careers are Thriving!

Author Healthcare Jobs Blogger | 12.14.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Occupational Therapy, Therapist Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Top Therapy Blogs, Travel Therapist, Traveling Therapist, rehabilitation therapy

Careers in Occupational Therapy are personally and professionally rewarding. If you take a travel occupational therapy job,  you will receive great benefits, high pay, and the opportunity to work in occupational therapist jobs in fascinating towns and cities across the U.S.A.

Find Occupational Therapist Careers all over the nation!

Whether its sun-loving jobs in Florida or the colorful seasons of ‘up north,’ we place OT professionals in big cities, small towns, and rural healthcare settings nationwide.

Want to see Alaska?

Sometimes the best therapy jobs are where you least expect to find them - take Alaska, for instance. The pay in Anchorage is superb and city dwellers friendly and unique. Though winters are cold and quiet - ideal for knocking back a novel or two - blooms in spring leave you speechless and daylight for months on end redefines day-to-day living. Talk to a Travel Force recruiter about therapy jobs in the Land of the Midnight Sun!

Did you know? Forbes ranked occupational therapy number 10 for best-paying jobs for women

Learn more about Careers in Occupational Therapy and the expected growth in this field

Related links:

• occupational therapist schools
• answers to frequently asked questions about therapist jobs

Call 800-617-0608 to learn more or apply online to get started with Travel Force.

Animal Assisted Therapy Benefits a Wide Range of Patients Receiving Occupational Therapy

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 11.17.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Occupational Therapy, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Travel Therapist, rehabilitation therapy

Animal assisted therapy is a highlight for OTs working in occupational therapy jobs where specially trained canines interact with patients. These furry friends facilitate more independent functioning and development of skills following a patient’s bout with an injury, surgery or illness. The method is showing favorable results in different cities across America; notably in Austin where an animal assisted therapy organization sends a group of dogs to visit with wounded war veterans.

In settings ranging from hospitals, schools and nursing homes animal assisted therapy seems to enhance recovery from illness, change behavior for the better and improve the patient’s experience with the rehab team. Animal assisted therapy has been used on patients with decreased immune function, Alzheimer’s, recovery from breast cancer, lung transplants, hypertension, heart disease and more. Interested occupational therapists can look to organizations like the Delta Society to learn more about the health benefits that come with animal companionship.

A patient receives animal assisted therapy in the form of a dog’s kiss following orthopedic surgery.

Man’s Best Friend Helps Occupational Therapists Who Work with Children

Some occupational therapists use dogs as a modality to help children achieve independent functioning in the areas of self-help, play and learning. Because these animals promote a sense of fun, and create a more relaxed environment, children are likely to interact with the animal, and improve in everyday activities like dressing, grooming and feeding—fun tasks the patient may practice with the therapy dog under supervision of an OT. The kinds of young patients said to benefit most from animal assisted therapy are those with special needs, like autism and sensory processing disorder.

In addition to dogs, animal assisted therapy is making headway using horses as well. Occupational therapists with an interest in all things equestrian will be happy to note that The Horses and Humans Research Foundation has awarded generous research grants to OT programs in occupational therapy schools that use horse movement (Hippotherapy) in studies that benefit children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Travel Force Staffing Stays On Top of The Latest Trends, Featuring OT Jobs in Top Hospitals

Occupational therapists who work with us have their pick of top paying jobs in all 50 U.S. states, the majority of them with enacted autism insurance reform; this law not only enables patients with autism to seek more progressive therapies, but provides affordability and increased access to all medical providers. In addition to great therapy career resources offered by a top staffing agency, OTs can also rely on literature like ADVANCE for Occupational Therapy Practitioners to educate them on alternative trends in allied healthcare; the biweekly magazine has lots to say about dolphin assisted therapy helping facilitate communication, socialization, fine and gross motor skills among patients with autism.

Stay abreast of all groundbreaking news in allied healthcare and work in high paying occupational therapy jobs in America’s best hospitals. Call 1-800-617-0608—or apply online. Come join your peers in therapy jobs that broaden the smiles of mankind and pets alike.

National Allied Health Professionals Week Celebrates Therapists

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 11.01.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, CFY, Career Tips, Monthly Events, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapist Jobs, Speech Language Pathologist, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Travel Therapist, Travel physical therapy jobs, physical therapist licensing, physical therapy, rehabilitation therapy

Feel Appreciated November 1-7, 2011!

The first week of November is National Allied Health Professionals Week, and honors the contributions of therapists from coast to coast. To physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists in the U.S., therapist staffing agency, Travel Force Staffing, says ‘Thank you, for the skill and high training you bring to your therapy jobs in all 50 states!’

Your healthcare staffing agency provides therapy career resources that help allied health professionals keep up with the extraordinary job gains predicted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, who, in 2006, predicted 4 million new health care jobs that are still on a steady climb—and forecasted to keep on growing until 2016!

Travel Therapy Jobs Are Just One Way to Increase Allied Health Awareness

For patients in need of rehabilitative care, there can be no greater contribution than sharing your talents as a therapist in a wide variety of healthcare settings that travel therapy jobs provide. Remember that allied healthcare professionals and the travel therapists among them constitute approximately 60% of caregivers in American healthcare today—so make sure you get the word out about your large and invaluable presence in the medical community! Since travel therapists encounter many different people with an interest in what they do, be sure to sponsor an activity, like a pot-luck, sports game or raffle that generates proceeds and honors local therapists.

Helping Give Talented SLPs, PTs and OTs Their Due

Working in a therapy career, though challenging, means your chosen road is high paying, incredibly rewarding and recession proof! Bookmark our physical therapy certification page to learn more about advancing your PT career.

Are you an ambitious occupational therapist looking to make your mark? Read this related blog about your therapy career’s boundless opportunities and high wages. We may also be the perfect fit for a newly graduated speech language pathologist, hunting for a lucrative CFY job—or ultimate speech language pathology job.

What Are You Waiting For? Call Travel Force Staffing Now!

Because we are affiliated with America’s best hospitals and offer free private housing and bonuses as part of a generous benefits package, all our rehab jobs put physical therapists within reach of a six-figure salary. It’s as easy as calling 1-800-617-0608; or, simply apply online! But between clicks, take the time to bask in your achievements this week, as a valued member of America’s allied healthcare workforce!

Occupational Therapist Jobs Offer Boundless Career Opportunities and High Wages

Author Healthcare Jobs Blogger | 09.23.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Occupational Therapy, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Travel Nurse Blog, Travel Therapist, physical therapy, therapy job bonus

Will a Travel OT Job Bonus Bump Up Your Earnings Even More?

Travel therapist or no, occupational therapists are in for some good news. According to this year’s figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the job outlook is among the best for allied healthcare professionals, enabling top incomes, job stability and ongoing demand. Occupational therapy careers are forecasted to continue their increase from 2008, by climbing a steady 26% until 2018. Many occupational therapy jobs offer incomes that average $73,380, but annual salaries, including job bonuses, can soar as high as $93,330 and up, given the right location and setting.

On the Fence About Your Next OT Travel Job?

Read 10 reasons to switch to travel therapy jobs and dispel common myths that OT travel jobs are isolating or somehow impractical. Therapists with wanderlust and penchant for fresh starts love their flexible travel occupational therapy jobs for a whole host of reasons; chiefly because it’s an opportunity to work with a variety of patient groups and develop well-roundness in settings that include skilled nursing facilities, outpatient centers, home health jobs and more. The right staffing agency can guide recent OT graduates and licensed therapists into OT travel jobs with six-figure earning potential.

Working across the country in more than just one job per year shows these professionals, who include travel physical therapists that while metro cities offer top-dollar, less rural areas may have an even greater demand for their skills and offer competitive salaries with a lower cost of living. When travel therapists consider that income can spike as much as 20% higher than their non-traveling counterparts, it may be time-especially if you are a recent graduate-to peruse travel therapy career tips for OTs and PTs.

Ask us for More Travel Therapy Career Tips and Hot Job Opportunities!

Our dedicated consultants are standing by to provide round the clock guidance and support for all potential applicants, and can help those with questions regarding proper documentation to start a travel therapy career now! Call 1-800-617-0608 or apply online today—it’s the first step in landing high paying and highly rewarding occupational therapy jobs from coast to coast. Whether you’re seeking relocation to a state known for its high hourly wages, specific financial perks in the city of your dreams, or a more rural travel therapist lifestyle, we can help you realize your goals.

Footnote: Here’s an insider’s tip for recent OT grads looking for high paying occupational therapy jobs; try states that lack a surplus of OT schools, such as Alaska, Montana, Oregon and Vermont. You may also want to pursue credentials in a hot specialty, like certified hand therapist (CHT), a field dominated by occupational therapists and high in demand.

10 Reasons to Switch to Travel Therapy Jobs

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 08.25.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Continuing Education Units (CEU), Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapist Education, Speech Language Pathologist, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Travel Therapist, Travel physical therapy jobs, physical therapist licensing, physical therapy, physical therapy job questions, rehabilitation therapy, therapy job bonus

Allied healthcare professionals, drawn to new cultures, climates and the travel done in between, covet high paying occupational and physical therapy jobs offered by prestigious staffing agencies. If you’re looking to take your therapy career to the next level, one that offers a competitive salary, free luxury private housing and more, please do read on!

Checklist: 10 Reasons to Switch to Travel Therapy Jobs

1. Travel therapy jobs let your inner-traveler go beyond guidebooks: Sites and attractions are to be enjoyed at your sole discretion and leisure. It’s not like you’re the average tourist, trying to cram everything into one vacation.
2. Staffing consultants work closely with every therapist. Thanks to VIP customer care, you tailor your own therapist career, living where you want, working the hours that suit you best.
3. Continuing Education is free. Advance in your therapist career from the comfort of your laptop. We have hundreds of online classes to choose from! See some of the  Free CE online courses
4. These therapy jobs are flexible! If you fall in love with a city during your therapy job, you can easily arrange to extend that position or find a permanent therapist job in your desired city.
5. Free private housing is located in a prime location. Live in apartments with amenities that encourage exercise (i.e. pools and gyms) and are either very close to your travel therapy job or located next to public transportation.
6. Get a bonus when you refer a therapist! Be sure to refer a colleague who loves the idea of a travel therapist lifestyle too.  See current travel therapy jobs bonuses.
7. Company matched 401(k) and travel reimbursements come with every travel therapy job. Once you peruse the Travel Force benefits package, you’ll want to sign on!
8. Accepting a travel therapy job means lightening your load. A consultant handles the particulars; the only thing you must do is ace your job interview, pack your belongings and get on the road. Deciding what the essentials are rids your life of clutter. See basic travel therapy job documentation needed to get started
9. Making plans for your future has never been this fun. Formulate a list of “Must-See places” before embarking on your new therapy career. Cram your glove compartment with maps and guidebooks. It’s a great opportunity for graduate physical therapists coming out of college.
10. You build confidence by working in more than just one facility. Increase your ability to adapt, acclimate and thrive in travel therapy jobs.

Travel Force Staffing Professionals Help You Learn to Travel Light

Allied healthcare professionals love travel therapy jobs because they are flexible, challenging, and offer great career benefits and pay when compared to permanent positions. Travel therapy jobs allow you to be the architect of where you work and for how long—rest assured our SLP jobs, physical and occupational therapy jobs are in America’s best hospitals; 80% of our affiliates appear in a top rated list, published consistently in U.S. News & World Report. Remember our checklist of why becoming a travel therapist is a brilliant move. You want to travel light, even if a decision like this is seldom made lightly—that is exactly why you need an expert staffing agency to help you take the plunge.

Travel Force Staffing provides recruitment solutions for America’s top rated rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient and Rehab centers, skilled nursing facilities, and private therapy practices located in all 50 U.S. states. Our experienced team of staffing experts place physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, surgical technologists and per diem staff and other allied healthcare professionals into therapy careers nationwide. Contact us today at 800-617-0608 for instant access to cutting edge recruitment technology, therapy career resources, news, and information.

Virtual Rehab for Occupational Therapy Jobs

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 07.15.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Gadgets, Occupational Therapy, Product Reviews, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Top Therapy Blogs, Travel Therapist, Traveling Therapist, Videos, medical robotics, rehabilitation therapy, video

Read Why Occupational Therapy Jobs Just Got More High-Tech in Nevada

Occupational therapy jobs are getting more high-tech and rewarding when they help senior aged patients, thanks to a virtual reality system called the OmniVR. Recently added to two skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in Las Vegas, the OmniVR is a virtual rehab system developed by Reno-based Accelerated Care Plus; it uses a 3-D camera and specialized computer software that captures a patient’s precise movement during “skilled” therapeutic exercises.

Contrary to the old saying “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”, the OmniVR is being used in about 4,000 U.S. hospitals, skilled nursing homes, outpatient clinics and in home health; patients love its resemblance to the Nintendo Wii; and, just like any interactive virtual reality game, the OmniVR is great for bringing out the competitiveness and quest for fun in patients of all ages.

How Virtual Reality Affects Your Rehab Job

With help from an OT or occupational therapy assistant, the OmniVR is, well, a virtual breeze; the OT stands with the patient—and a black walker that goes uncensored by the game—if balance is shaky. Patients have a lot of leeway in how they want to play: they can be seated, grasp the walker or stand unassisted.

This treatment is ideal for those in recovery from surgery, a fall, stroke or other degenerative and dementia related condition. If patients would rather participate in a multi-player game, the OmniVR is ideal for group rehabilitation too. Traditional therapies are practiced in conjunction with virtual rehab—an exciting new treatment in the world of occupational therapy jobs that shows the shape of things to come! Watch a demo of the OmniVR in action in this Youtube video.

Dreaming of an Occupational Therapy Career? Make it A Reality!

If you’re an OT keen on moving into A-list health care facilities that utilize what’s cutting edge, call Travel Force or apply online. We have high paying Rehab jobs and Travel occupational therapy jobs that make treatments like virtual reality an imminent reality!

Travel Force Staffing provides recruitment solutions for America’s top rated rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient and Rehab centers, skilled nursing facilities, and private therapy practices located in all 50 U.S. states. Our experienced team of staffing experts place physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, surgical technologists and per diem staff and other allied healthcare professionals into therapy careers nationwide. Contact us today at 800-617-0608 for instant access to cutting edge recruitment technology, therapy career resources, news, and information.

Texas Therapy Jobs Light Up with Statewide 4th of July Events!

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 06.30.2011 | Category 4th of July, Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Fun Events, Locations, Monthly Events, Occupational Therapy, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Therapy Blogs, Travel physical therapy jobs, physical therapy

Find an event close to your physical therapy job here!

The Fourth of July will be a blast this year in the Lone Star state, offering a large variety of holiday activities statewide, and, of course, fireworks that rival the nation. If you’re working in Texas physical therapy jobs, and looking for a fun excuse to don your red, white and blue, these are just a few of the highlights coming to a Texas region near you!

50,000 Anticipated for this Awesome July 4th show!

At sunset on July 4th, Amarillo—a city in the Texas Panhandle—comes alive with an amazing fireworks display witnessed by tens of thousands. Physical therapists in Texas come join the fun! The event is free—and takes place at the Ross Rogers Golf course in Thompson Park; Texas Panhandle Plains. For more information, call 806-376-4488.

Let Willie Nelson Rock Your North Texas Therapy Job

He’s performed all over Texas—reliably, each year on the Fourth of July—and returns in 2011 for the 33rd Annual Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic; come on out to the Fort Worth Stockyards to witness Willie’s 50th anniversary as a country music star. Click on the Williespicnic link for more information.

Close to Texas Prairies and Lakes? Read more about Old-Fashioned Parade Events!

It’s one of the largest parades in Texas, and if your therapy jobs bring you anywhere near downtown Arlington for the Fourth of July, you, too, will witness the old-fashioned charm of a huge community parade. Not so far from Arlington, and also in the Texas Prairies and Lakes area, therapists will find what has been billed: “The Best Small Town Parade in America!” Check it out in Downtown Chappell, starting at 10am, July, 4. It’s free!

If you’re looking for even more Independence Day events, and didn’t see one yet, that caught your eye or was close enough to your Texas therapist job, click on this Top 10 July 4 in Texas link to read more about what’s being offered across the state.

Exercise Your Independence and Apply for a therapist job at Travel Force!

Travel Force Staffing is always here to provide our therapists with the summer scoop on fun, before melting into the next season. If you don’t yet work for us, our recruiters look forward to talking with you and will help you get started on physical therapy and occupational therapy jobs! Call 1-800-617-0608 or apply online today and enjoy the freedom, flexibility and independence the right therapist job can provide!

Occupational Therapy Jobs Surge in States with Enacted Autism Insurance Reform

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 06.22.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Occupational Therapy, Speech Language Pathologist, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Top Therapy Blogs, Travel Therapist, physical therapy

Occupational therapy jobs are in higher demand in 26 states, thanks to new legislation that requires health insurers to cover screening, diagnosis and treatment for autism spectrum disorders—heartening news for OTs treating patients with problems processing sensory input. Researchers estimate that 8 out of 10 autistic children suffer from Sensory Processing Disorder; with more affordable and expansive health care treatments and options, occupational therapy is more effective in lowering these statistics.

Autism Insurance Reform Bill a Win - Win for More Than Just Occupational Therapists

For parents, autism insurance reform eliminates the critical choice between keeping finances stable and seeking quality treatment; this bill lets them have both, ensuring that Medicaid and public schools are not the only form of reimbursement for families struggling to meet treatment costs. States to enact the autism insurance reform bill require insurance companies to include, as part of care, routine toddler screenings, behavioral health treatments, speech therapy, occupational and physical therapy, as well as other allied healthcare services that seek to benefit the 1 in every 115 children diagnosed with autism in the United States today. Insurance reform is expected to help these individuals better afford out-patient care, Applied Behavior Analysis, and protect against wrongful termination of health benefits. Patients helped by this reform may also expect shorter waits for optional, but beneficial treatments.

Looking for Therapy Jobs in States that Promote Advocacy and Increased Awareness?

Sought after, high paying travel occupational therapy jobs from coast to coast are part of this ground-breaking reform, in California, Virginia and New Jersey to name a few. Call 1-800-617-0608 or apply online today. Our recruiters align your talents with an ideal occupational therapy career in healthcare facilities synonymous with excellent care—for autism, and wide range of disorders requiring the high-level clinical training and expertise you know you can provide.  Apply today!

Footnote: Find out more about Autism Reform Law in your state by visiting the Autism Votes official website; here therapists will find an initiative map detailing which states have enacted this positive law. Valuable information on your community’s Autism Speaks Chapter Advocacy Chair is also available. Archived material on the Travel Force blog is also a great career resource! Learn more about the exciting challenges and rewards of an occupational therapy career and how it helps patients with autism and sensory processing disorder by clicking on the links provided.