Cody Cox — OTD, OTR/L, MED — OT Faculty Profile, USAHS
Cody Cox, OTD, OTR/L, MED, teaches occupational therapy at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) campus in Miami, Florida. Cody’s clinical work spans assisted living, skilled nursing, mental health, and intensive rehabilitation hospitals, mostly with older adults.
Cody’s biggest impact on a patient came with a teacher who contracted West Nile virus and couldn’t return to the classroom. Therapy helped her dress and do things she never expected to manage again, and when she walked back into the facility a year and a half later, both of them cried. Seeing her as a teacher, a wife and a person was key to getting her life back.
Cody loves the lightbulb moment when students grasp new content, and this profile is a good introduction to holistic practice for prospective OT students.
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Cody Cox — OTD, OTR_L, MED — OT Faculty Profile, USAHS
[00:00:00] Cody Cox. (OT Faculty): The areas of OT that I’ve worked in are assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, mostly with- in geriatrics, mental health, as well as intensive rehab hospitals. [00:00:11] Teaching in OT is a passion of mine, and I love when the light bulb goes off for students, when they get the content that I’m putting down, when they pick up what I’m putting down. I enjoy students learning what occupational therapists do, how they do what they do, and why we do what we do. [00:00:32] I would say the biggest impact I believe I made on the life of a patient was a teacher, actually, which that’s what I do, I’m an educator, that contracted West Nile virus and was not able to go back to teaching. She was able to get dressed. She was able to do things that she did before before the West Nile virus attacked her system that she didn’t expect that she’d be ever be able to do. And she actually came back to me maybe a year and a half later, walked into the facility and was just… We were just crying, boo-hoo crying. And I realized that looking at her holistically, not just as a teacher, but as a person, as a human being, as a wife, her roles, her performance patterns were also very important to her ability to go back to living life the way she wanted to live it.
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