AKRON, Ohio (EYT) — Intimacy in a small city definitely has its benefits and drawbacks. That saying of “everybody is aware of everybody” can create a terrific neighborhood feeling, but additionally brings challenges as effectively. For Brockway native Kayla Raybuck, her small city of round 2,000 individuals in Jefferson County, helped her to develop the attributes wanted to achieve success in healthcare.
Her potential to develop shut with others all through her life and develop a hefty quantity of empathy are nearly accustomed to skills she has taken into her profession as an occupational therapist. Admittedly, being the oldest of 4 ladies additionally performed an element in molding her into the individual {and professional} she is right this moment. “I feel being an older sister helped me to develop superb endurance,” Raybuck stated with fun. “I additionally assume that it made me an open-minded and never a judgmental individual. Being an older sibling additionally taught me plenty of accountability and self-discipline. There’s little doubt that my childhood and function as an older sister have performed into my profession alternative.”
Raybuck graduated from Brockway Junior-Senior Excessive Faculty in 2015 and actually solely thought of attending one establishment. She at all times wished to go to Penn State College and commenced her profession at Penn State Erie — The Behrend School in August 2015. She went in as a communication sciences and issues main and had a strong sense that healthcare was the fitting area for her. Raybuck believed changing into a speech-language pathologist was doubtless the fitting path for her, however late in her sophomore 12 months, she job shadowed a speech-language pathologist and one thing modified. She spoke to an occupational therapist throughout this expertise and understood the vastness of the occupation. After this discovery, Raybuck declared her main as rehabilitation and human companies and didn’t look again.
After two years in Erie, she transferred to the College Park campus in State School to complete her undergraduate diploma. Raybuck completed up at Penn State in Might 2019, however her path by greater schooling was removed from over. She utilized to a number of doctorate packages in occupational remedy and was accepted into one domestically at Chatham College. “I used to be set on a doctorate program, and Chatham supplied an entry-level one in a location I preferred. It was conventionally positioned shut sufficient to my household, and I used to be acquainted with Pittsburgh.”
Whereas this system is nice, the timing of being a doctorate scholar in the midst of a pandemic was lower than splendid. The early months from August 2019 by February 2020 had been going about as swimmingly as they may for a doctorate scholar, all issues thought of. However March 2020 is when studying needed to go nearly and changes wanted to be made to timelines and medical expectations. Raybuck by no means completed her pediatric medical rotation in individual due to the circumstances, sadly. However by all of it, she and her friends persevered and completed their levels in April 2022.
The 12 months 2022 was a big one as not solely did Raybuck full her diploma, she additionally relocated to Akron, Ohio to start her first full-time function and handed her board examinations to grow to be Kayla Raybuck, OTD. She started and continues her profession right this moment at Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Heart; a facility she accomplished a few of her ultimate medical rotations and capstone mission at in the course of the spring 2022 time period. Essentially the most thrilling half about securing a rotation at Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Heart was that they’re a hand remedy supplier; a speciality that’s not broadly supplied all through the nation.
There are just a few thousand licensed hand therapists within the nation, and this location gives extreme hand remedy companies. To grow to be an authorized hand therapist, three years of apply, over 2,000 plus hours of apply, and passing a certification examination is required. Raybuck is constant to achieve expertise till she accumulates the hours and years of service earlier than starting to check for the Licensed Hand Therapist (CHT) certification. She hopes that someday between 2025 and 2026, she’s going to add this certification to her already spectacular resume.
Whereas the previous few years have definitely introduced plenty of optimistic adjustments to her life, one fixed has been her fiance and fellow Penn State graduate, Mason Lindenmuth. The couple has been collectively since 2012 and can be wed in August. “I’m so excited to be marrying him quickly. He’s been the best possible accomplice I may have ever requested for by all of it. “Mason actually helped me get by all of my tutorial pursuits, actually like all of the finding out, all these instances of stress after I was ready for the outcomes of my boards. He’s only a nice supporter of me. I actually don’t assume I’d have saved considerably sane throughout these instances.”
Raybuck has additionally gained a mentor in her area in recent times in Kristy Kreidler. She oversaw Raybuck’s capstone mission throughout her ultimate few months as a doctoral scholar and has been one of many largest advocates for her pursuing hand remedy inside occupational remedy. Moreover, Raybuck’s complete household has remained by her aspect by a number of the most difficult years in her younger life.
Kayla Raybuck’s journey to grow to be an occupational therapist has taken her past the bounds of Jefferson County, however her sort coronary heart, empathy, and talent to construct relationships began within the small city of Brockway which she is proud to name house. As every day passes, she grows nearer to marrying the love of her life and likewise changing into a Licensed Hand Therapist. This chapter of life is one Kayla Raybuck feels lucky to be in.
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