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Occupational Therapy (OT) is one of the fastest growing careers of the twenty-first century. Consequently, this is putting therapists at extremely high demands because there are not enough OT’s to meet the needs of society. For example, some therapists may work Mondays and Wednesdays in a hospital seeing patients recovering from surgery. On Tuesdays they see in-home clients requiring early intervention therapy due to birth defects or premature birth. On Thursdays they work at a specialized clinic to integrate animal therapy for children with autism. And Fridays are set aside for scheduling assessments from different agencies to evaluate whether prospective clients qualify for therapy. This reflects a typical workweek of a therapist working per-diem. Therapist many times chose to work per-diem since working for several different companies can pay almost twice as much as working full-time in a school district or hospital setting. The difference in pay can be attributed to the lack of paid benefits that is normally included with full-time employment. With such a complicated and deeply involved schedule one could not imagine working without some type of agenda. What better solution than the Scheduly application?

This search engine has a vast amount of beneficial uses for the average OT. Not only is it an online scheduler for the therapist, but clients are able to go online to see the scheduling availability for the OT. It also has the function to allow clients to schedule their own appointment at any time. For a therapist that is working per-diem, Scheduly becomes of essence to meet the needs of several different employers. The program has many functions and a small amount of set-up is required. First, the user needs to create an account with Scheduly where he is given a basic template to be customized by the customer. Each requested employer is accepted onto the therapist’s list of authorized clients. Next the clients requesting or qualifying for therapy are added to the clientele list and introduced to how Scheduly works. The therapist’s job is to tailor the program to their personal needs, and further schedule in any personal time which no job nor client could occupy. This information could be visible in detail to the public, available to only certain people like family, or left only to be viewed by the therapist and seen as blocked out time to everyone else. Once the therapist has scheduled in private time, the clients are to go to the site and pick the time that best fits their schedule. When the client picks the scheduled time, this information is immediately sent to the therapist who can approve, cancel, or block the appointment requested. Coincidently, on the same page there is a map with the schedule allowing a time slot for the driving time to and from one client to the next. With such a demanding schedule, occupational therapists are in desperate need of a sophisticated but simple tool to keep track of all scheduling issues. The answer for this dilemma is Scheduly!!! Therapists who are just starting in the field or just finished with school are probably looking for some extra clientele. Scheduly also posts the one or more services offered by the therapist on the web and/or your personal webpage in order to increase clients and revenue. This turns a useful scheduling application into a business advertisement also.

With the exceeding demands of occupational therapists in today’s society, finding time to make and receive calls takes away from the time that could be better spent helping a client live a more fulfilling and satisfying life. Not to mention, it is extremely time consuming to schedule a pool of over a hundred clients. Scheduly is the ideal program application for an occupational therapist. It is an online scheduler for an OT business and the client is able to go online to see scheduling availability and schedule their own appointments. Having an application like Scheduly frees up time that could be better spent assisting a client in need.

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