ABOUT
Fiona Nichol
B.Sc. OT I Clinical Specialist I NTMTC
P# 104 7302
Fiona is an Occupational Therapist with 30 years of experience. She graduated from UCT in 1992 and has worked in Namibia, the USA and Saudi Arabia.
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Her early career included owning a large private practice for ten years in Namibia where she worked with learning-disabled children as well as doing adult work in the form of Medico-legal disability assessments for insurance companies.
She further devoted herself exclusively to adult and geriatric rehabilitation during her two years in the USA working at a rehab hospital and skilled-nursing facility.
In the last fifteen years she worked in an adult and pediatric hospital in Saudi Arabia as a Clinical Specialist with a particular focus on neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as well as in and out-patient pediatric rehabilitation.
MY APPROACH
Compassion, Adaptability, Problem-solving
“I am passionate about my profession and find it immensely satisfying being able to help my patients find their optimum level of functioning, whether it be a baby of a few months or an elderly person in their retirement years. My strengths are my compassion and adaptability in being able to think on my feet and problem solve accordingly. The aim of my treatment is geared at providing ‘tools’ that will best allow my patient and family to cope, both physically and mentally, with their disability. This opens the door for them being able to see a road forward to improved function and life enjoyment. It may, for example, be a premature baby finally learning how to crawl or a stroke victim being able to dress themselves independently again.
I am here to help, use me.”
