NATRS 297 - Independent Study-Natural Resources 4

1. Develop a deeper understanding of their specific area of interest within natural resources.
2. Hone skills and techniques to further develop field based experience for their specific area of interest within natural resources.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

NATRS 298 - Independent Study-Natural Resources 5

1. Develop a deeper understanding of their specific area of interest within natural resources.
2. Hone skills and techniques to further develop field based experience for their specific area of interest within natural resources.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

NATRS 299 - Independent Study-Natural Resources 6

1. Develop a deeper understanding of their specific area of interest within natural resources.
2. Hone skills and techniques to further develop field based experience for their specific area of interest within natural resources.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

NATRS 300 - Forest Ecology

1. Demonstrate understanding of plant succession, soil conditions and implications for tree growth.
2. Synthesize the science behind ecological occurrences and disturbances.
3. Discuss the theories including biodiversity, inter- and intraspecific interactions, disturbance and succession that describe ecological processes and how they can be applied across multiple ecosystems.
4. Demonstrate high reading and comprehension skills through reading and discussing scientific articles.
5. Conduct an ecological research project.
6. Write a scientific paper with their findings.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland or Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 301 - Resource Economics

1. Explain forest resource valuation in the context of private and public lands.
2. Complete basic financial analysis for various forest operations and practices using acceptable industry standard software programs.
3. Compare and contrast inflation, risk and uncertainty in financial decision making.
4. Appraise taxes and fees associated with forest ownership and resource extraction.
5. Compose and evaluate standard contracts for a variety of forestry activities.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperator.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 385 - Forest Protection and Disease Management

1. Correctly identify common insects and diseases that impact forest health and values in North America with focus on the Pacific Northwest.
2. Assess a forest for current and potential health issues from biotic and abiotic agents.
3. Prepare a management plan to deal with forest health issues.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the importance and impact of various disturbance agents on forest ecosystems.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 386 - Bio Invasions: Invasive Species Management

1. Access and utilize resources for identifying, classifying and reporting invasive species in Washington state.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the ecology of invasive species.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of three methods of control for biological invasive.
4. Participate in the control and management of invasive species.
5. Write an integrated invasive management plan.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperator.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 390 - Environmental Decision Making and Conflict Resolution

1. Discuss case studies of environmental conflict with a focus on Western environmental issues.
2. Examine stakeholders and learn to identify what communication process should be used to improve opportunities for conflict resolution and decision making outcomes.
3. Examine individual and group conflict resolution skills including interdisciplinary teams.
4. Participate in a public forum for an environmental conflict and write an industry brief on the issue.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 399 - Natural Resources Seminar

1. Discuss the various facets of Natural Resources through weekly guest lecture presentations from multiple professionals.
2. Discuss current events, findings and practices in the field of Natural Resources.
3. Engage with relevant questions of current professionals in the field.
4. Summarize talks and synthesize information through reflection essays.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 400 - Forest Practices, Law and Policy

1. Demonstrate their familiarity with the various environmental acts, laws, policies that govern Natural Resources on a national and local basis.
2. Demonstrate their familiarity with the updated and current HCP and Washington Forest Practice Rules and Regulations and how they are applied locally.
3. Demonstrate the understanding of the practical impacts of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as the Endangered Species Act and how they impact land and water management in the Pacific Northwest (PNW).
4. Participate in a public forum and understand the process of an Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) in the review process of the Forest Practice Applications (FPA). Explain the process and outcomes of an Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) review of an FPA
5. Demonstrate their appraisal and critiquing administrative process and behaviors, as well as legislative, regulatory, legal ethical, tribal and personal considerations. (This is the format of Timber, Fish and Wildlife (TWF) Cooperators).
6. Identify/define/explain the differences between the state and federal environmental acts and policies discussed in class. Be familiar with the SEPA document and the process.
7. Describe and explaining how the TFW Cooperative started, how it has developed over time and what its current role is in the management of natural resources in today’s environment.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 401 - Advanced Harvest Systems: Cable and Aerial Based

1. Demonstrate knowledge of current high lead and skyline logging systems involving both cable and aerial operations.
2. Demonstrate the knowledge of safety rules involving Labor and Industries (L&I) as they apply.
3. Identify types of rigging and equipment used in Aerial Cable operations.
4. Demonstrate harvest unit planning, design and layout objectives.
5. Demonstrate the knowledge of and identify commercial thinning operations and fire salvage operations.
6. Identify Riparian Migration Zones (RMZ), Wetland Migration Zones (WMZ) and Channel Migration Zone (CMZ) protection rules in regards to harvest operations.
7. Identify and delineate unstable slopes and the rules that apply.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 402 - Advanced Harvest Systems: Ground Based

1. Demonstrate knowledge and identify current ground based harvest operations available in the Forest Industry.
2. Demonstrate knowledge and identify safety rules involving Labor and Industries (L&I).
3. Identify types of rigging and equipment used in ground based harvest operations.
4. Demonstrated skills in harvest unit planning, design and layout objectives used in ground based operations.
5. Demonstrate the knowledge of and identify commercial thinning operations and fire salvage operations.
6. Identify Riparian Migration Zones (RMZ), Wetland Migration Zones (WMZ) and Channel Migration Zone (CMZ) protection rules in regards to harvest operations.
7. Identify and delineate unstable slopes and the rules that apply.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 403 - Transportation System Design

1. Identify the different classification of haul roads such as Class A, B, C and D miles and the associated rate for each class and the different design and standards for permanent mainline roads, spurs and temporary roads.
2. Demonstrate basic road engineering to perform road pegging, route surveying and reconnaissance, road location and field layout.
3. Identify fish passage issues, proper drainage structures and different erosion control techniques as they pertain to road construction.
4. Demonstrate their ability to analyze road costing, have knowledge of Forest Practice rules and regulations and the permitting process and maintenance dictate transportation designs.
5. Demonstrate their knowledge to identify the difference between road abandonment, deactivation and decommissioning.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland or Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate good written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 416 - UAV Applications and Mapping

Credits: 5
Explore unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications for mapping including methods of data collection, processing, and analysis for agriculture, real-estate, surveying, construction, with an emphasis on natural resources and forestry applications. Gain knowledge of rules and regulations of commercial use of UAVs including federal, state, and local jurisdiction regulations. Become familiar with UAV platforms for data acquisition, software for automated data collection, and software for acquired data post processing. Learn to use mapping software for remote sensing, image analysis, and change detection from data collected in the field.

Enrollment Requirement: NATRS 192  or equivalent; and instructor consent.

  Recommended: NATRS 107  

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Utilize UAV technology as a form of data collection.
2. Differentiate between federal, state, and local regulations regarding UAV’s.
3. Engage in safe and efficient drone flights.
4. Perform image processing from collected data imagery.
5. Perform statistical analysis from processed imagery.
6. Create a comprehensive final project for a region of interest using UAV applications and other relevant GIS applications.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland or Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 417 - Resource Management GIS Applications 1

1. Utilize ArcMap, ArcToolbox and ArcCatalog software to complete mapping projects.
2. Problem solve ArcMap tools to complete tasks by utilizing ArcMap Help, Search and on-line help forums.
3. Download and upload geospatial data files and correctly import them into ArcMap.
4. Define projections of data layers for map creation and analysis.
5. Create file geodatabases, feature datasets, feature classes, fields and domains as necessary to support NATRS 386  content.
6. Create metadata to support new data creation.
7. Create user-friendly and client centered maps.
8. Conduct spatial analysis as necessary to support NATRS 386  content.
9. Write detailed reports explaining data acquisition, processing, and analysis techniques.
10. Create and present a final project encompassing the above outcomes.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland or Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 418 - Resource Management GIS Applications 2

1. Utilize ArcMap, ArcToolbox and ArcCatalog software to complete mapping projects.
2. Problem solve ArcMap tools to complete tasks by utilizing ArcMap Help, Search and on-line help forums.
3. Download and upload geospatial data files and correctly import them into ArcMap.
4. Define projections of data layers for map creation and analysis.
5. Create file geodatabases, feature datasets, feature classes, fields and domains as necessary to support NATRS 493  content.
6. Create metadata to support new data creation.
7. Create user-friendly and client centered maps.
8. Conduct spatial analysis as necessary to support NATRS 493  content.
9. Write detailed reports explaining data acquisition, processing, and analysis techniques.
10. Create and present a final project encompassing the above outcomes.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland or Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 419 - Resource Management GIS Applications 3

1. Utilize ArcMap, ArcToolbox and ArcCatalog software to complete mapping projects.
2. Problem solve ArcMap tools to complete tasks by utilizing ArcMap Help, Search and on-line help forums.
3. Download and upload geospatial data files and correctly import them into ArcMap.
4. Define projections of data layers for map creation and analysis.
5. Create file geodatabases, feature datasets, feature classes, fields and domains as necessary to support NATRS 461  content.
6. Create metadata to support new data creation.
7. Create user-friendly and client centered maps.
8. Conduct spatial analysis as necessary to support NATRS 461  content.
9. Write detailed reports explaining data acquisition, processing, and analysis techniques.
10. Create and present a final project encompassing the above outcomes.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland or Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 461 - Wildlife Ecology

1. Demonstrate knowledge of basic wildlife ecology principles including population dynamics.
2. Apply skill and knowledge to collect wildlife habitat and ecology data needed for habitat assessment and management.
3. Access, read and understand scientific and government documents related to wildlife ecology topics.
4. Conduct and write up a wildlife related research project.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperator.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 471 - Restoration Techniques

1. Demonstrate knowledge and skill in assessing a stand for restoration potential.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of various restoration techniques used for a variety of degraded environments.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the ecological, economic and social aspects of preparing and conducting restoration projects at various spatial and temporal scales.
4. Prepare a management plan for a restoration project.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperator.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 493 - Advanced Silviculture

1. Describe the most common silvicultural tools and practices and how to use them appropriately to meet management objectives.
2. Explain growth and yield dynamics for forest stands under a variety of management regimes.
3. Demonstrate the use and applicability of at least one growth model for making silviculture descisions.
4. Evaluate various silvicultural activities for biologic, economic and social soundness.

1. Attain a job in the Natural Resources field.
2. Manage Forestland and Resources to attain positive outcomes.
3. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communications between industry partners and cooperators.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 494 - Capstone in Natural Resources Proposal

1. Synthesize cumulative knowledge and skills to develop desired project outcome(s).
2. Work with a sponsoring entity to develop a complete project proposal.
3. Explain their proposal and process to all stakeholders.

1. Demonstrate knowledge and develop skills applying current laws, policies and regulations governing forest land operations and land management as well as the social and political effects of natural resource management including harvest, road construction and public use.
2. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate forest resource conditions, including forest health, invasive species and past management to form and carry out prescription to meet landowner objectives in a variety of forest conditions.
3. Demonstrate the knowledge of ecological processes and principles and the effects of management on forest land resources.
4. Demonstrate the expertise to collect, analyze and evaluate field data using current technology and equipment through scientific and land management processes.
5. Integrate geospatial workflows for problem-solving and analysis related to natural resources management through implementation of current GIS software and tools.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 495 - Capstone in Natural Resources Field Work

1. Conduct field work and other necessary tasks in connection with their capstone project proposal by working with a sponsoring organization. 
2. Expand their natural resource and interpersonal skills through the capstone process. 
3. Gain additional knowledge and experience in key areas associated with the capstone project.

1. Demonstrate knowledge and develop skills applying current laws, policies and regulations governing forest land operations and land management as well as the social and political effects of natural resource management including harvest, road construction and public use.
2. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate forest resource conditions, including forest health, invasive species and past management to form and carry out prescription to meet landowner objectives in a variety of forest conditions.
3. Demonstrate the knowledge of ecological processes and principles and the effects of management on forest land resources.
4. Demonstrate the expertise to collect, analyze and evaluate field data using current technology and equipment through scientific and land management processes.
5. Integrate geospatial workflows for problem-solving and analysis related to natural resources management through implementation of current GIS software and tools.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NATRS 496 - Capstone in Natural Resources Delivery

1. Articulate the results of their work product(s) to supervisors and other stakeholders.
2. Deliver a completed use-able project of their own creation to the sponsoring organization.
3. Assess and evaluate their skills and abilities in a natural resource field.
4. Assess and evaluate their personal character and knowledge growth.

1. Demonstrate knowledge and develop skills applying current laws, policies and regulations governing forest land operations and land management as well as the social and political effects of natural resource management including harvest, road construction and public use.
2. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate forest resource conditions, including forest health, invasive species and past management to form and carry out prescription to meet landowner objectives in a variety of forest conditions.
3. Demonstrate the knowledge of ecological processes and principles and the effects of management on forest land resources.
4. Demonstrate the expertise to collect, analyze and evaluate field data using current technology and equipment through scientific and land management processes.
5. Integrate geospatial workflows for problem-solving and analysis related to natural resources management through implementation of current GIS software and tools.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

N SCI 194 - Special Topics-Natural Science

1. Course outcomes to be determined by instructor based on selected course topic(s).

MNURS 101 - Introduction to Nursing and Technology

Credits: 1
Designed for a student who is already Medical Assistant-Certified and is enrolled in the MA to LPN program. Introductory course of concepts related to nursing including campus resources, academic resources, research and the role of the practical nurse related to nursing technology and the electronic health record. To be used concurrently with NURSE 101 .

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in Practical Nursing program and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

MNURS 104 - Nursing Fundamentals

Credits: 4
Designed for a student who is already Medical Assistant-Certified and is enrolled in the MA to LPN program. Students learn concepts and theories relating to the basic art and science of nursing to meet the needs of individuals across the lifespan in an ethical, legal, and safe manner, utilizing the nursing process. The role of the nurse within the health care team is highlighted throughout. Topics include client needs, safety, critical thinking, patient education, and the history of nursing. To be used concurrently with NURSE 104 .

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in Practical Nursing program and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

MNURS 105 - Fundamentals of Health Community Lab

Credits: 2
Designed for a student who is already Medical Assistant-Certified and is enrolled in the MA to LPN program. Provides students with the knowledge of basic patient care skills across the lifespan and their application in the clinical setting. Students will utilize critical thinking with the nursing process, demonstrate culturally sensitive care, provide documentation, and communicate with clients/families and members of the health care team. On campus simulation scenarios will provide the student with the opportunity to begin to develop clinical reasoning skills in a safe environment. To be used concurrently with NURSE 105 .

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in Practical Nursing program and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

MNURS 107 - Med-Surg I Community Lab

Credits: 4
Designed for a student who is already Medical Assistant-Certified and is enrolled in the MA to LPN program. Course builds upon Foundations of Health Lab and strengthens student knowledge of patient care skills across lifespan and their application in clinical. Utilize critical thinking in the nursing process, demonstrate culturally appropriate care, documentation, communicate with clients/families, care team in different settings. Campus simulation provides the opportunity to further develop clinical reasoning applicable to practice. Admission, discharge and transfer included. To be used concurrently with NURSE 107 .

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in Practical Nursing program and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 101 - Introduction to Nursing & Technology

1. Demonstrate use of electronic materials in educational programs and clinical settings for nursing students.
2. Describe strategies to enhance academic success in the nursing program.
3. Describe the role of the practical nurse in various health care settings and inter-professional relations.

1. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 102 - Introduction to Pharmacology in Nursing

1. Identify general principles of pharmacology including drug activity and reactions within the body, factors that influence drug action, expected actions and outcomes, pharmacokinetics, and nursing implications related to drug administration.
2. Describe the “Rights of Medication Administration”, components of a medication order, preparation of drugs for administration, methods to reduce medication errors, routes of medication administration, and the nursing responsibilities during the medication administration process.
3. Calculate medication administration and dosage problems accurately using information provided on drug labeling.
4. Discuss the uses, general drug actions, adverse reactions, contraindications, precautions, interactions for drugs, nursing assessment and patient teaching related to various body systems.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
4. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

NURSE 104 - Fundamentals of Health

1. Discuss the role of the nurse using the nursing process across the lifespan.
2. Describe legal and ethical considerations when providing care for clients across the lifespan.
3. Discuss the history of nursing including nursing theorists and current trends including research and evidence based practice.
4. Describe communication and documentation including HIPAA regulations as it applies to the care of clients.
5. Obtain seven (7) hour HIV/AIDS Certification per Chapter 246-12 WAC, Part 8.
6. Discuss cultural and ethnic considerations when providing care to clients.
7. Describe health promotion and maintenance related to nursing care of clients across the lifespan.
8. Using the nursing process, discuss basic principles of health related to pain and inflammation for clients across the lifespan.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 105 - Fundamentals of Health Community Lab

1. Identifies scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Uses the nursing process with nursing care, and when developing a comprehensive nursing care plan / concept map for one or more patients who are in different stages of the life cycle.
3. Documents nursing care provided and patient/family teaching.
4. Performs culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, and spiritual needs of a client.
5. Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicate with the client and family.
6. Demonstrates competence with nursing skills including a head to toe physical assessment and accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.
7. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 106 - Med-Surg I

1. Identify normal/abnormal pathophysiology of common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
2. Discuss the etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, medical management of common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
3. Describe the role of the nurse, using the nursing process, when caring for the client with common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
4. Identify nutrition and health promotion activities related to the common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
5. Examines the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, patient teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medication related to course theory content.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NURSE 107 - Med-Surg I Community Lab

1. Identifies scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Uses the nursing process with nursing care, and when developing a comprehensive nursing care plan/concept map for one or more patients who are in different stages of the life cycle.
3. Documents nursing care provided and patient/family teaching.
4. Performs culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, and spiritual needs of a client. across the life span.
5. Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicate with the client and family.
6. Demonstrates competence with nursing skills, including accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.
7. Perform a nursing history and clinical unit admission, complete a transfer form and discharge form including a referral for additional services in a variety of clinical settings.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 109 - Med-Surg II Community Lab

1. Identifies scientific principles when performing basic nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Uses the nursing process with nursing care, and when developing a comprehensive nursing care plan / concept map for one or more patients who are in different stages of the life cycle.
3. Documents nursing care provided and patient/family teaching.
4. Performs culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, and spiritual needs of a client. across the life span.
5. Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicate with the client and family.
6. Demonstrates competence with nursing skills, including accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.
7. Perform a nursing history and clinical unit admission, complete a transfer form and discharge form including a referral for additional services in a variety of clinical settings.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 110 - Med-Surg II

1. Identify normal/abnormal pathophysiology of common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
2. Discuss the etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, medical management of common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
3. Describe the role of the nurse, using the nursing process, when caring for the client with common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
4. Identify nutrition and health promotion activities related to the common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
5. Examines the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, patient teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medications related to course theory content.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NURSE 111 - Mental Health in Nursing

1. Describe mental health, mental illness, the principles of mental health care and the continuum between both mental health and mental illness.
2. Discuss factors impacting mental health including culture, socioeconomic, legal, and changes in the health care system.  
3. Describe theorists and psychotherapies related to their impact on personality and behavior.
4. Discuss the role of stress, adaptation, coping, illness, and crisis related to mental health.
5. Describe components of a therapeutic relationship and therapeutic environment.
6. Examines the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, patient teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medications for mental health disorders.
7. Discuss the use of the DSM-V multi-axial system for classification of mental disorders.
8. Using the nursing process, discuss the care of the patient with a mental health diagnosis.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NURSE 112 - Reproductive/OB/Pediatric Nursing

1. Discuss the care of the client experiencing reproductive disorders.
2. Discuss the normal and high-risk physiology of antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum mother and baby dyad.
3. Describe the nursing care of the client experiencing normal and abnormal labor and delivery including the adolescent, using the nursing process.
4. Discuss physiological and psychological adaptations that occur in the postpartum period.
5. Describe the nursing care of the normal and high-risk client during the postpartum period using the nursing process.
6. Describe the nursing care of the normal and high-risk newborn using the nursing process.
7. Identify normal/abnormal pathophysiology of common medical surgical conditions experienced by clients across the life-span.
8. Identify developmental theories pertaining to the care of the pediatric client.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

NURSE 113 - Advanced Community Lab

1. Explains scientific principles and rationale when performing nursing care in a safe and effective care environment.
2. Uses the nursing process with nursing care, and when developing a comprehensive nursing care plan / concept map for one or more patients who are in different stages of the life cycle, including a client in labor and delivery, and immediate care of the newborn.
3. Documents nursing care provided and patient/family teaching.
4. Performs culturally sensitive nursing care, including a focus on racial, socio-economic, sexual, gender, ethnicity, religious, and spiritual needs of a client.
5. Communicate confidentially with other health care team members to provide for continuity of care, as well as therapeutically communicate with the client and family.
6. Demonstrates competence with nursing skills, including accurate calculation of math seen in nursing practice.
7. Describes the management, resource allocation, delegation of tasks, and roles of the nurse within the code scenario.
8. Integrate principles of safety, quality, collaboration, relationship-centered care, systems-based care, and personal/professional development when providing care to clients.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 114 - Intravenous Therapy

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the scope of practice for nurses initiating IV therapy.
2. Demonstrate knowledge and pathophysiologic reasoning for parenteral fluid administration including blood products, total parenteral nutrition, and medications.
3. Identify infusion related complications, their causes, and appropriate treatment.
4. Apply and implement strategies to prevent infection related to infusion therapy.
5. Demonstrate accurate calculation of IV infusion rates.
6. Demonstrate accurate documentation related to infusion therapy.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
4. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
5. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NURSE 123 - Emergency Care & Disaster Preparedness

1. Describe roles and responsibilities of healthcare team members responding to emergencies.
2. Identify nursing interventions used in the care of the client across the life-span experiencing emergencies.
3. Determine priorities for clients experiencing emergencies.
4. Identify socio-cultural influences that may affect clients in emergencies from seeking care.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

NURSE 127 - Safety, Basic Life Support and Infection Control

1. Identify the major signs and symptoms of choking of ages throughout the life span.

2. Describe and demonstrate the major elements of Basic Life Support through demonstration of effective CPR and use of an AED.

3. State the standard precautions used to prevent transmission of blood-borne pathogens such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C.

4. Identify clinical manifestations of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B & C, tuberculosis, influenza, MRSA, C. diff and Covid-19.

5. Describe important infection prevention practices and strategies that can be utilized as a healthcare provider.

6. Apply the chain of infection model to various infectious pathogens.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NURSE 194 - Special Studies-Nursing

1. Course outcomes to be determined by instructor based on selected course topic(s).

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NURSE 198 - Independent Study-Nursing

1. Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NURSE 294 - Special Studies in Nursing 2

1. Course outcomes to be determined by instructor based on selected course topic(s).

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in clinical judgement that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NRS A 110 - Nurse Assistant Theory

1. Define/discuss: abuse, risk management, guardian, power of attorney, devices, inefficacious DSHS, AARP, alert charting.
2. Describe/discuss use of computers for patient/resident medical records.
3. Define/discuss medical assistant devices.
4. Explain the nursing process as it relates to the care setting with a focus on focus documentation and implementations.
5. Describe/discuss your scope of practice.
6. Define/discuss specific details of positive psycho/social/spiritual care of patients, residents, and clients.
7. Define/discuss positive physical/restorative care of patients, residents, and clients.

1. Define their role as a safe practitioner.

2. Function on a team or within a group in a nurturing positive manner.

3. Relate to people of all ages.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

NRS A 111 - Nurse Assistant Community Lab

1. Identify positive behaviors of a nurse assistant.
2. Define/discuss specific details of positive psycho/social/spiritual care of patients, residents, and clients.
3. Define/discuss positive physical/restorative care of patients, residents, and clients.
4. Define: feeding tubes, gastrostomy suppositories, enemas, dressing changes, blood glucose checks, special feeding techniques, colostomy, keostromy, cath care, subrapubic, ureteral, percare, orthostatic vital signs, hemodynamic, triage, priority, prosthesis.

1. Define their role as a safe practitioner.

2. Function on a team or within a group in a nurturing positive manner.

3. Relate to people of all ages.

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

NUTR& 101 - Nutrition

1. Identify nutritional requirements of a healthy diet.
2. Identify the nutritional needs of humans through the stages of the life span.
3. Describe the Macro & Micro nutrients and their functions.
4. Explain the scientific process of digestion including organs and systems involved.
5. State and discuss menu choices and how they impact various disease processes.
6. Evaluate impact of advertising and marketing on the U.S. populations’ health.
7. Apply knowledge of nutritional science to health and wellness through analysis of individual menu.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 100 - Introduction to Occupational Therapy

1. Explain the role of sociocultural, socioeconomic, and diversity factors and lifestyle choices in contemporary society to meet the needs of persons, groups, and populations (e.g., principles of psychology, sociology, and abnormal psychology). 
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions. This must include an understanding of epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations 
3. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments. 
4. Define the process of theory development and its importance to occupational therapy. 
5. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice. 
6. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors
7. Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations.
8. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.
9. Effective Intra-professional Collaboration: Demonstrate effective intra-professional OT/OTA collaboration to explain the role of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist in the screening and evaluation process. 
10. Referral to Specialists: Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist that need to refer to specialists both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies.
11. Advocacy: Explain the role and responsibility of the practitioner to advocate for changes in service delivery policies, effect changes in the system, recognize opportunities in emerging practice areas, and advocate for opportunities to expand the occupational therapy assistant’s role.
12. Supervision of Personnel: Define strategies for effective, competency-based legal and ethical supervision of occupational therapy assistants and non-occupational therapy personnel.
13. Scholarly Study: Locate and demonstrate understanding of professional literature, including the quality of the source of information, to make evidence-based practice decisions in collaboration with the occupational therapist. Explain how scholarly activities and literature contribute to the development of the profession. 
14. Ethical Decision Making: Demonstrate knowledge of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and AOTA Standards of Practice and use them as a guide for ethical decision making in professional interactions, client interventions, employment settings, and when confronted with personal and organizational ethical conflicts.
15. Demonstrate knowledge of how the role of a professional is enhanced by participating and engaging in local, national, and international leadership positions in organizations or agencies.
16. Demonstrates knowledge of personal and professional responsibilities related to liability issues under current models of service provision, various roles of occupational therapy assistant providing services on a contractual basis.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
4. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.
5. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.
6. Read and use professional literature in the field of occupational therapy.
7. Discuss the importance of ethics, values and responsibilities in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

OTA 101 - Life Span Growth and Development in Humans

Credits: 3
Includes a study of the basic theories and processes of normal human growth and development. Emphasizes practical assessment and integration of all components- psychosocial, physical and cognitive-relative to the needs of recipients of occupational therapy. 

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in OTA Program.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of human development throughout the lifespan (infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults). Course content must include, but is not limited to, developmental psychology.  
2. Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of human behavior to include the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and science of occupation. 

3. Explain the role of social cultural, social economic, and diversity factors, as well as life style in contemporary society to meet the needs of persons, groups and populations (e.g. principals of psychology, sociology, and abnormal psychology).

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 102 - OTA Applied Anatomy and Kinesiology

Credits: 3
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the function of the human body to include applied concepts related to anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics with an emphasis on material related to the practice of occupational therapy across diverse clientele and practice settings. Client factors, body functions and body structures related to movement are studied as they affect performance in areas of occupation.

Enrollment Requirement: Concurrent enrollment in OTA 103 ; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Articulate knowledge of the structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics.  

 
Program Outcomes

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 103 - Applied Anatomy and Kinesiology Lab

Credits: 2
Application of concepts learned in OTA 102 . Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the function of the human body to include applied concepts related to anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics with an emphasis on material related to the practice of occupational therapy across diverse clientele and practice settings. Client factors, body functions and body structures related to movement are studied as they affect performance in areas of occupation.

Enrollment Requirement: Concurrent enrollment in OTA 102 ; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics.  

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 111 - Fundamentals of Occupational Therapy as Health Care Providers

Credits: 2
Students learn basic patient-therapist interaction and communication skills, introductory use of medical terminology, patient confidentiality and HIPPA rules, infection control and blood borne pathogens guidelines, and time management skills. Students earn HIV/AIDS certification.

Enrollment Requirement: Concurrent enrollment in OTA 112 ; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Articulate principals of sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice. This must include the ability to assess and monitor vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory status, and temperature) to ensure that the client is stable for intervention.

2. Effective Communication: Identify occupational needs through effective communication with patients, families, communities, and members of the interprofessional team in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion of health and wellness.

3. Define activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.

4. Therapeutic Use of Self: Define therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction

5. Occupation-Based Interventions: Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.

6. Technology in Practice: Identify  types of technology in practice, which must include:

   • Electronic documentation systems 

   • Virtual environments 

   • Telehealth technology

7. Care Coordination, Case Management, and Transition Services:  Articulate novice understanding care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments. 

8. Principles of Interprofessional Team Dynamics: Demonstrate awareness of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population-centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable. 

9. Preparation for Work in an Academic Setting: Articulate novice knowledge of  principles of teaching and learning in preparation for work in an academic setting. 
10. Referral to Specialist: Identify and communicate the need to refer to specialist both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies.
11. Articulate the importance of ongoing promotion of occupational therapy by educating other professionals, service providers, consumers, third party payers, regulatory bodies and the public.
12. Able to list components of the OTPF and show novice understanding of each component.
13. Define and list the components of the occupational profile.
14. Demonstrate knowledge of medical terms and abbreviations related to OT profession.
15. Articulate a novice level of knowledge in understanding the need to communicate and refer to other health care professional for consultation and intervention.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupation therapy processes.
3. Discuss the importance of ethics, values and responsibilities in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 112 - Professional Skills for Healthcare Providers Lab

1. Demonstrate sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice. This must include the ability to assess and monitor vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory status, and temperature) to ensure that the client is stable for intervention.
2. Demonstrates ability to apply principals of communication used during patient care to include empathetic listening, effective listening skills and providing directions for tasks.
3. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan. 
4. Therapeutic Use of Self: Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
5. Occupation-Based Interventions: Demonstrate ability to utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention. 
6. Technology in Practice: Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include: 
   • Electronic documentation systems  
   • Virtual environments  
   • Telehealth technology 
7. Principles of Interprofessional Team Dynamics: Demonstrate awareness of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population-centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable. 
8. Apply components of the OTPF and show novice understanding of each component.
9. Apply novice understanding of the Occupational Profile.
10. Demonstrate knowledge of medical terms and abbreviations related to OT profession.
11. Demonstrate a novice level of knowledge in understanding the need to communicate and refer to other health care professional for consultation and intervention.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 120 - Developmental Disabilities 1

1. Demonstrate knowledge of:
   • The structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics.
   • Human development throughout the lifespan (infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults). Course content must include, but is not limited to, developmental psychology.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions. This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
3. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance.
5. Dysphagia and Feeding Disorders: Demonstrate interventions that address dysphagia and disorders of feeding and eating, and train others in precautions and techniques while considering client and contextual factors.
6. Factors, Policy Issues and Social Systems: Identify and explain the contextual factors; current policy issues; and socioeconomic, political, geographic, and demographic factors on the delivery of occupational therapy services for persons, groups, and populations and social systems as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy.
7. Identify role and responsibilities of the OT and COTA in the school setting vs. private practice setting in working with children with disabilities.
8. Demonstrate knowledge of the principle of typical development in children and understand how developmental milestones influence development throughout the human life span.
9. Describe general symptoms and effects of common developmental disabilities, orthopedic disabilities, movement disorders, genetic disorders, autism spectrum disorders, sensory processing disorders, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, and other physical and mental disorders.
10. Demonstrate knowledge of oral motor development, precautions, and techniques to provide interventions which address functional limitations surrounding feeding and eating performance in children.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
4. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.
5. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 121 - Developmental Disabilities 1 Lab

1. Demonstrate knowledge of:
   • The structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics.
   • Human development throughout the lifespan (infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults). Course content must include, but is not limited to, developmental psychology.
   • Concepts of human behavior to include the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and science of occupation.
2. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors.
4. Explain to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, and the general public the distinct nature of occupation and the evidence that occupation supports performance, participation, health, and well-being.
5. Clinical Reasoning: Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
6. Occupation-Based Interventions: Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
7. Standardized and Non-standardized Screening and Assessment Tools: Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.
8. Reporting Data: Under the direction of an occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes.
9. Remediation and Compensation: Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
10. Provide Interventions and Procedures:
    Provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training, and advocacy.
11. Dysphagia and Feeding Disorders: Demonstrate interventions that address dysphagia and disorders of feeding and eating, and train others in precautions and techniques while considering client and contextual factors.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
5. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 122 - Physical Disabilities 1

1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology and biomechanics. 
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions. This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
3. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
4. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations.
7. Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance.
8. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
9. Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include: 
   • Electronic documentation systems  
   • Virtual environments  
   • Telehealth technology 
10. Demonstrate interventions that address dysphagia and disorders of feeding and eating, and train others in precautions and techniques while considering client and contextual factors. 
11. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
12. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
13. Define strategies for effective, competency-based legal and ethical supervision of occupational therapy assistants and non-occupational therapy personnel.
14. Locate and demonstrate understanding of professional literature, including the quality of the source of information, to make evidence-based practice decisions in collaboration with the occupational therapist. Explain how scholarly activities and literature contribute to the development of the profession.
15. Implement a discharge plan from occupational therapy services that was developed by the occupational therapist in collaboration with the client and members of the interprofessional team by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment. 
16. Demonstrate the skills to understand a scholarly report.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
5. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 123 - Physical Disabilities 1 Lab

Credits: 2
Basic assessment and treatment techniques as it relates to adult physical disabilities. Lab allows for practical experience in patient assessment, transfers and daily living skills.

Enrollment Requirement: Concurrent enrollment in OTA 122 ; or instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.

2. Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and nonstandardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.

3. Provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training, and advocacy. 

4. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.

5. Explain the need for and demonstrate strategies with assistive technologies and devices (e.g., electronic aids to daily living, seating and positioning systems) used to enhance occupational performance and foster participation and well-being.

6. Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management and mobility devices.

7. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.

8. Under the direction of an occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes. 

9. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:  

   · To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations.  

   · To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience. 

10. Understand the difference between quantitative and qualitative research studies. 

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 124 - Fundamentals of Gerontology

Credits: 3
Study of physical, emotional and social processes involved in normal aging, plus a brief study of the pathology associated with the aging process. Emphasizes techniques used in maintaining independence, adjusting to the special problems of aging and the utilization of community resources. Open to health science majors interested in the aging process. Previously H SCI 104.

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in OTA program.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of:

   • The structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics. 

   • Human development throughout the lifespan (infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults). Course content must include, but is not limited to, developmental psychology. 

   • Concepts of human behavior to include the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and science of occupation. 

2. Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations. 
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance. 
4. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice. 
5. Functional Mobility: Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices. 
6. Dysphagia and Feeding Disorders: Demonstrate interventions that address dysphagia and disorders of feeding and eating, and train others in precautions and techniques while considering client and contextual factors. 
7. Community and Primary Care Programs: Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to design community and primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups, and populations. 
8. Effective Communication: Identify occupational needs through effective communication with patients, families, communities, and members of the interprofessional team in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion of health and wellness. 
9. Consultative Process: Engage in the consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intraprofessional colleagues. 
10. Advocacy: Explain the role and responsibility of the practitioner to advocate for changes in service delivery policies, effect changes in the system, recognize opportunities in emerging practice areas, and advocate for opportunities to expand the occupational therapy assistant’s role.
11. Demonstrate skills of collaboration with occupational therapists and other professionals on therapeutic interventions.
12. Promote Occupational Therapy: Promote occupational therapy by educating other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, regulatory bodies, and the public. 

13. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions. This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations. 

14. Community Mobility: Provide training in techniques to enhance community mobility, and address transportation transitions, including driver rehabilitation and community access. 

15. Consultative Process: Engage in the consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intraprofessional colleagues. 

16. Principles of Interprofessional Team Dynamics: Demonstrate awareness of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population-centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable. 

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 126 - Clinical Seminar 1

1. Explain the role of sociocultural, socioeconomic, and diversity factors, as well as lifestyle choices in contemporary society to meet the needs of persons, groups, and populations (e.g., principles of psychology, sociology, and abnormal psychology).
2. Explain the importance of scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
3. Therapeutic Use of Self: Identify technique used to develop therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
4. Clinical Reasoning: Articulate how to use e clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
5. Need for Continued or Modified Intervention: Discuss the importance of collaboration with the client, caregiver, family, and significant others, the effect of occupational therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention, and communicate the identified needs to the occupational therapist.
6. Reimbursement Systems and Documentation: Discuss various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, third party, private payer), treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and coding and documentation requirements that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services.
7. Articulate the importance of and demonstrate ability to gather data for the purpose of screening and evaluation using methods including but not limited to specified screening tools, using skilled observation and consulting with the patient’s health care team (other professionals, family, and significant others).
8. Articulate the importance of and demonstrate the ability to gather and share data for the purpose of evaluating client (s) occupational performance in activities of ADLs, IADLs, education, work, play, rest, sleep and social participation as it applies to the Occupational Therapy Performance Framework (OTPF).
9. Articulate and demonstrate skills of collaboration with occupational therapists and other professionals on therapeutic interventions.
10. Describe the role of the occupational therapy assistant in care coordination, case management, and transition service in traditional and emerging practice environment in their clinical environment.
11. Articulate a novice level ability to implement treatment activity with patients/clients as assigned by fieldwork (FW) Clinical Instructor (CI).
12. Identify and demonstrate effective work habits in the clinical setting.
13. Understand the importance of self-knowledge in relation to the quality of one’s life and the choices one makes.
14. To describe the role families play in the formation of identity and self-esteem.
15. Describe various factors that should be considered in making sound ethical decisions.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 127 - Clinical Seminar Lab

Credits: 1
Students demonstrate skills at a novice level to gather necessary information to implement evaluation, treatment, and occupational profile of the client, document occupational therapy service, implement treatment based on the OTPF. Students also demonstrate professional behaviors required to be successful in the fieldwork.

Enrollment Requirement: Concurrent enrollment in OTA 126  and OTA 128 ; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Explain the role of sociocultural, socioeconomic, and diversity factors, as well as lifestyle choices in contemporary society to meet the needs of persons, groups, and populations (e.g., principles of psychology, sociology, and abnormal psychology).
2. Demonstrate a novice ability to apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
3. Therapeutic Use of Self: Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
4. Clinical Reasoning: Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
5. Need for Continued or Modified Intervention: Monitor and reassess, in collaboration with the client, caregiver, family, and significant others, the effect of occupational therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention, and communicate the identified needs to the occupational therapist.
6. Reimbursement Systems and Documentation: Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, third party, private payer), treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and coding and documentation requirements that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services.
7. Demonstrate ability to gather data for the purpose of screening and evaluation using methods including but not limited to specified screening tools, using skilled observation and consulting with the patient’s health care team (other professionals, family, and significant others).
8. Articulate the importance of and demonstrate the ability to gather and share data for the purpose of evaluating client (s) occupational performance in activities of ADLs, IADLs, education, work, play, rest, sleep and social participation as it applies to the Occupational Therapy Performance Framework (OTPF).
9. Demonstrate skills of collaboration with occupational therapists and other professionals on therapeutic interventions.
10. Demonstrate effective work habits in the clinical setting.
11. The application of treatment theories and techniques used in the assigned clinics.
12. Demonstrate a novice level ability to document therapy service to ensure accountability of service provision and to meet standards for reimbursement agencies, and FW site facility while accurately communicating the rationale and effectiveness of therapy services. 

13. Demonstrate ability to gather data for the purpose of screening and evaluation using methods including but not limited to specified screening tools, using skilled observation and consulting with the patient’s health care team (other professionals, family, and significant others).

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 128 - Application of Occupational Therapy Assistant 1

1. Apply information learned in the academic portion in to fieldwork experiences. See specific form for detailed criteria. 
2. Demonstrate skills of collaboration with occupational therapists and other professionals in planning and preparation for treatment activity with patients/clients.
3. Demonstrate a beginners understanding of implementing treatment activity with patient/clients.
4. Demonstrate ability to link treatment activity to theory and disease process.
5. Record observations and understand the application of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework to patient treatment and recording of findings.
6. Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively with Clinical Instructor, patients and other professionals Apply treatment theories and techniques used in the assigned clinics.
7. Articulate the importance in using observation, histories, and interviews of patient as assigned to assist in the screening and assessment of patients.
8. Demonstrate ability to communicating effectively with patient/clients and staff.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 130 - Professional Advocacy Experience

Credits: 1
Acquaints students with therapy practitioner’s responsibilities in professional activities and for promotion of occupational therapy to other professionals, consumers, third-party payers and the public.

Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in OTA Program.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Explain to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, and the general public the distinct nature of occupation and the evidence that occupation supports performance, participation, health, and well-being.
2. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments. 
3. Care Coordination, Case Management, and Transition Services: Understand and articulate care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments. 
4. Factors, Policy Issues and Social Systems: Identify and explain the contextual factors; current policy issues; and socioeconomic, political, geographic, and demographic factors on the delivery of occupational therapy services for persons, groups, and populations and social systems as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy.
5. Systems and Structures That Create Legislation: Define the systems and structures that create federal and state legislation and regulations, and their implications and effects on persons, groups, and populations, as well as practice. 
6. Advocacy: Explain the role and responsibility of the practitioner to advocate for changes in service delivery policies, effect changes in the system, recognize opportunities in emerging practice areas, and advocate for opportunities to expand the occupational therapy assistant’s role. 
7. Market the Delivery of Services: Identify the need and demonstrate the ability to participate in the development, marketing, and management of service delivery options. 
8. Scholarly Study: Locate and demonstrate understanding of professional literature, including the quality of the source of information, to make evidence-based practice decisions in collaboration with the occupational therapist. Explain how scholarly activities and literature contribute to the development of the profession. 
9. Professional Engagement: Demonstrate knowledge of how the role of a professional is enhanced by participating and engaging in local, national, and international leadership positions in organizations or agencies. 
10. Promote Occupational Therapy: Promote occupational therapy by educating other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, regulatory bodies, and the public. 

11. Community and Primary Care Programs: Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to design community and primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups, and populations. 

1. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
4. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.
5. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.
6. Discuss the importance of ethics, values and responsibilities in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 131 - Physical Disabilities 2

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics.  
2. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors. 
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance. 
4. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skill.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include: 

• Electronic documentation systems
• Virtual environments  
• Telehealth technology 

6. Explain the role and responsibility of the practitioner to advocate for changes in service delivery policies, effect changes in the system, recognize opportunities in emerging practice areas, and advocate for opportunities to expand the occupational therapy assistant’s role.
7. Promote occupational therapy by educating other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, regulatory bodies, and the public.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.
4. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.
5. Discuss the importance of ethics, values and responsibilities in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 132 - Physical Disabilities 2 Lab

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics.
2. Demonstrate sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice. This must include the ability to assess and monitor vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory status, and temperature) to ensure that the client is stable for intervention. 
3. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
4. Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.
5. Under the direction of an occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
7. Explain the need for orthotics, and design, fabricate, apply, fit, and train in orthoses and devices used to enhance occupational performance and participation. Train in the safe and effective use of prosthetic devices.
8. Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices.
9. Define the safe and effective application of superficial thermal agents, deep thermal agents, electrotherapeutic agents, and mechanical devices as a preparatory measure to improve occupational performance. This must include indications, contraindications, and precautions.
10. Assess, grade, and modify the way persons, groups, and populations perform occupations and activities by adapting processes, modifying environments, and applying ergonomic principles to reflect the changing needs of the client, sociocultural context, and technological advances. 
11. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:  
    • To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations.  
    • To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience. 
12. Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to refer to specialists both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies.
13. Understand the difference between quantitative and qualitative research studies

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
4. Read and use professional literature in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

OTA 133 - Psychosocial Dysfunction

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions.
   • This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
   • Describing the relationship between mental health illness and physical health illnesses and how social issues can impact both.
2. Articulate the ethical and practical considerations that affect the mental health and wellness needs of those who are experiencing or are at risk for social injustice, occupational deprivation, and disparity in the receipt of services through the continuum of time from ancient times to the present as well as by demonstrating knowledge of global social issues and prevailing health and welfare needs of populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions by:
   • Outlining the history of mental illness from ancient times to the present and describe the methods used to treat mental illness throughout the continuum.
   • Describing a sample of the multiple settings in which mental health services may be provided and the lack of parity that impacts mental health care.
   • Describing legal considerations in respect to mental health in Washington state and how they have changed over time based on both ethical and practical considerations.
3. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice. 
4. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
5. Describe the meaning and dynamics of occupation and activity, including the interaction of areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, activity demands, context(s) and environments, and client factors by;
   • Demonstrating an understanding of the principles that allow one to interact therapeutically with mentally ill clients.
   • Satisfactorily completing a therapeutic group activity to the specified criteria.
   • Identifying therapeutic use and contraindications of therapeutic modalities relative to patient needs and occupation.
6. Understand the occupational therapy practice framework: domain and process by:
   • Identifying common assessment tools used.
   • Demonstrating the ability to set goals and plan appropriate occupational therapy activities for clients.
7. Describe a sample of the multiple settings in which mental health services may be provided.
8. Articulate to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, other audiences, and the general public both the unique nature of occupation as viewed by the profession of occupational therapy and the value of occupation support performance, participation, health, and well-being.
9. Understand the effects of heritable diseases, genetic conditions, disability, trauma, and injury to the physical and mental health and occupational performance of the individual possible cause(s) and effects of mental illness and occupational performance of an individual.
10. In order to demonstrate task analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, activity demands, context(s) and environments, and clients factors to implement the intervention plan the student will:
    • Identify means of adapting and grading activities appropriate for different client populations.
11. Use sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice as demonstrated by:
    • Identifying means of adapting and grading activities appropriate for different client populations.
    • Identifying safety techniques in respect to suicide prevention.
    • Describing how the use of prescribed medications influences patient behavior and the ability of the patient to benefit from therapy.
    • Describing the impact of the maladaptive use of drugs and their side effects on occupation.
12. Express support for the quality of life, well-being, and occupation of the individual, group, or population to promote physical and mental health and prevention of injury and disease considering the context in respect to the delivery of occupational therapy services to individuals with mental illness.
13. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice.
14. Describe basic features of the theories, models of practice, frames of reference, and occupational therapy history and occupational therapy theory, (and the socio-political climate) underlie the practice of occupational therapy in order to:
    • Understand the basic assumptions of theories used to explain mental illness.
    • Explain the concepts of current practice models used by occupational therapy practitioners in mental health.
15. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors.
16. Understand the effects of heritable diseases, genetic conditions, disability, trauma, and injury to the physical and mental health and occupational performance of the individual possible cause(s) and effects of mental illness and occupational performance of an individual.
17. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.
18. Demonstrate sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice. This must include the ability to assess and monitor vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory status, and temperature) to ensure that the client is stable for intervention.
19. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
20. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
21. Gather and share data for the purpose of screening and evaluation using methods including, but not limited to, specified screening tools; assessments; skilled observations; occupational histories; consultations with other professionals; and interviews with the client, family and significant others in order to evaluate client(s)’ occupational performance in activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), education, work, play, rest, sleep, leisure, and social participation by:
    • Understanding the occupational therapy practice framework: domain and process by:
      • Identifying common assessment tools used.
      • Demonstrating the ability to set goals and plan appropriate occupational therapy activities for clients.
22. Within the field of mental health, articulate the role of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist in the screening and evaluation process along with the importance of and rationale for supervision and collaborative work between the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist in that process.
23. Under the direction of an occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes.
24. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
25. Identify means of adapting and grading activities appropriate for different client populations within the mental health field by providing remediation, and compensation for deficits in physical, mental, cognitive, perceptual, neuromuscular, behavioral skills, and sensory functions.
26. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self to encompass interacting with patients and responding to symptoms and behaviors.
27. Articulate the difference between quantitative and qualitative research studies.
28. Effectively locate and understand information including the quality of the source of the information in: Gathering information pertinent to the understanding and treatment of mental illness and Identifying popular myths and in understanding the correct facts about mental illness.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 134 - Psychosocial Dysfunction Lab

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions.
   • This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
   • Describing the relationship between mental health illness and physical health illnesses and how social issues can impact both.
2. Articulate the ethical and practical considerations that affect the mental health and wellness needs of those who are experiencing or are at risk for social injustice, occupational deprivation, and disparity in the receipt of services through the continuum of time from ancient times to the present as well as by demonstrating knowledge of global social issues and prevailing health and welfare needs of populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions by:
   • Outlining the history of mental illness from ancient times to the present and describe the methods used to treat mental illness throughout the continuum.
   • Describing a sample of the multiple settings in which mental health services may be provided and the lack of parity that impacts mental health care.
   • Describing legal considerations with respect to mental health care in Washington state and how they have changed over time based on both ethical and practical considerations.
3. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
4. Describe the meaning and dynamics of occupation and activity, including the interaction of areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, activity demands, context(s) and environments, and client factors by:
   • Demonstrating an understanding of the principles that allow one to interact therapeutically with mentally ill clients.
   • Satisfactorily completing a therapeutic group activity to the specified criteria.
   • Identifying therapeutic use and contraindications of therapeutic modalities relative to patient needs and occupation.
5. Understanding the occupational therapy practice framework: domain and process by:
   • Identifying common assessment tools used.
   • Demonstrating the ability to set goals and plan appropriate occupational therapy activities for clients.
6. In order to demonstrate task analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, activity demands, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan the student will:
   • Identify means of adapting and grading activities appropriate for different client populations.
7. Express support for the quality of life, well-being, and occupation of the individual, group, or population to promote physical and mental health and prevention of injury and disease considering the context with respect to the delivery of occupational therapy services to individuals with mental illness.
8. Describe basic features of the theories, models of practice, frames of reference, and occupational therapy history and occupational therapy theory, (and the socio-political climate) underlie the practice of occupational therapy in order to:
   • Understand the basic assumptions of theories used to explain mental illness.
   • Explain the concepts of current practice models used by occupational therapy practitioners in mental health.
9. Articulate to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, other audiences, and the general public both the unique nature of occupation as viewed by the profession of occupational therapy and the value of occupation support performance, participation, health, and well-being.
10. Gather and share data for the purpose of screening and evaluation using methods including, but not limited to, specified screening tools; assessments; skilled observations; occupational histories; consultations with other professionals; and interviews with the client, family and significant others in order to evaluate client(s)’ occupational performance in activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), education, work, play, rest, sleep, leisure, and social participation.
11. Reporting Data: Under the direction of an occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes.
12. Remediation and Compensation: Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 198 - Independent Study - Occupational Therapy Assistant

1. Course outcomes to be mutually agreed upon between instructor and student. 

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
5. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.
6. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.
7. Read and use professional literature in the field of occupational therapy.
8. Discuss the importance of ethics, values and responsibilities in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 200 - Developmental Disabilities 2

1. Demonstrate task analysis of students with disabilities in transition to work setting focusing on identify the areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, activity demands, context (s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.
2. Use sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice in transition to work settings in the community.
3. Provide training and assess need for interventions in self-care, self-management, health management and maintenance, home management, and community.
4. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
5. Provide therapeutic use of occupation-based intervention including preparatory methods, exercises and purposeful activities.
6. Implement intervention strategies to remediate and/or compensate for cognitive deficits that affect occupational performance.
7. Demonstrate the ability to use problem solving and critical thinking to explain the need for the use of compensatory strategies when desired life tasks cannot be completed.
8. Use/identify the teaching-learning process with the client, family, significant others, colleagues, other health providers, and the public. Collaborate with the occupational therapist and learner to identify appropriate educational methods.
9. Effectively interact through written, oral, and nonverbal communication with the client, family, significant others, colleagues, other health providers, and the public in a professionally acceptable manner.
10. Demonstrate skills of collaboration with occupational therapists and other professionals on therapeutic interventions.
11. Understand when and how to use the consultative process with specific consumers or consumer groups as directed by an occupational therapist.
12. Monitor and reassess, in collaboration with the client, caregiver, family, and significant others, the effect of occupational therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention and communicate the identified needs to the occupational therapist. Demonstrating skills needed to implement assigned work tasks as demonstrated by ability to:
    • Follow specified objectives for assigned client.
    • Observe appropriate precautions and safety precautions.
    • Consult with supervisor as needed.
    • Adjust method of instruction to facilitate client learning.
13. Under the direction of an administrator, manager, or occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes.
14. Display understanding of the use of technology, both high and low tech and compensatory strategies needed to support performance, health and well-being and to be able to teach the use of these.
15. Identify appropriate materials and supplies for assistive device fabrication. Articulate principles of and demonstrate methods of designing, constructing and using special devices including but not limited to electronic aides to daily living and seating and positioning systems to enhance occupational performance during lecture/discussion class portion.
16. Demonstrate understanding of monitoring and reassessment of effect of Occupational Therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention. Includes collaboration with client, caregiver, family, and significant others, as well as communication about identified needs to the Occupational Therapist.
17. Demonstrates ability to facilitate effective discharge planning by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver and family using available, identified resources (community, human and fiscal) making recommendations for environmental adaptations and home programming and recognizing the need to refer to specialists.
18. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors.
19. Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance.
20. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 201 - Developmental Disabilities 2 Lab

Credits: 2
Students apply and demonstrate novice competency of material learned in OTA 200 . Focuses on application and hands on experience with task analysis, assistive technology and devices and occupational based approaches. Students demonstrate interventions and collaborate with clients, educators and other health care professionals using a service learning model.

Enrollment Requirement: OTA 120  and OTA 121  with grades of 2.0 or higher; and concurrent enrollment in OTA 200 ; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Demonstrate task analysis of children with disabilities in transition to work setting focusing on identify the areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, activity demands, context (s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.
2. Provide training and assess need for interventions in self-care, self-management, health management and maintenance, home management, and community.
3. Provide therapeutic use of occupation-based intervention including preparatory methods, exercises and purposeful activities.
4. Implement intervention strategies to remediate and/or compensate for cognitive deficits that affect occupational performance.
5. Demonstrate the ability to use problem solving and critical thinking to explain the need for the use of compensatory strategies when desired life tasks cannot be completed.
6. Clinical Reasoning: Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills. 
7. Principles of Interprofessional Team Dynamics: Demonstrate awareness of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population-centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable. 
8. Explain to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, and the general public the distinct nature of occupation and the evidence that occupation supports performance, participation, health, and well-being.
9. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
10. Under the direction of an occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes.
11. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
12. Engage in the consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intraprofessional colleagues.
13. Monitor and reassess, in collaboration with the client, caregiver, family, and significant others, the effect of occupational therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention, and communicate the identified needs to the occupational therapist.
14. Demonstrate effective intraprofessional OT/OTA collaboration to explain the role of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist in the screening and evaluation process.
15. Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to refer to specialists both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies.
16. Demonstrate awareness of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population-centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

17. Demonstrates sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice in transition to work settings in the community.

18. Demonstrates sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice in transition to work settings in the community.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 202 - Ethics, Society, and Professional Practice

1. Explain the role of sociocultural, socioeconomic, and diversity factors, as well as lifestyle choices in contemporary society to meet the needs of persons, groups, and populations (e.g., principles of psychology, sociology, and abnormal psychology).  
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions. This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
3. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, third party, private payer), treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and coding and documentation requirements that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services.
5. Identify and explain the contextual factors; current policy issues; and socioeconomic, political, geographic, and demographic factors on the delivery of occupational therapy services for persons, groups, and populations and social systems as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy. 
6. Explain an understanding of the business aspects of practice including, but not limited to, financial management, billing, and coding. 
7. Define the systems and structures that create federal and state legislation and regulations, and their implications and effects on persons, groups, and populations, as well as practice. 
8. Provide care and programs that demonstrate knowledge of applicable national requirements for credentialing and requirements for licensure, certification, or registration consistent with federal and state laws.  Identify the potential impact of current policy issues on OT and the role of the practitioner to advocate for changes.
9. Define strategies for effective, competency-based legal and ethical supervision of occupational therapy assistants and non-occupational therapy personnel.  Demonstrate understanding supervisory and collaborative relationship of the OT/COTA and identify strategies for legal/ethical supervision of non-professional personnel and conflict resolution techniques between peers and supervisors.
10. Demonstrate knowledge of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and AOTA Standards of Practice and use them as a guide for ethical decision making in professional interactions, client interventions, employment settings, and when confronted with personal and organizational ethical conflicts. 
11. Promote occupational therapy by educating other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, regulatory bodies, and the public. 
12. Identify and develop strategies for ongoing professional development to ensure that practice is consistent with current and accepted standards.
13. Demonstrate knowledge of personal and professional responsibilities related to: Liability issues under current models of service provision. Varied roles of the occupational therapy assistant providing service on a contractual basis. 

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
4. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.
5. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.
6. Discuss the importance of ethics, values and responsibilities in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 210 - Therapeutic Practices in Occupational Therapy

1. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments. 
2. Define the process of theory development and its importance to occupational therapy. 
3. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors.
4. Explain to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, and the general public the distinct nature of occupation and the evidence that occupation supports performance, participation, health, and well-being.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations. 
6. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.
7. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
8. Explain the need for and demonstrate strategies with assistive technologies and devices (e.g., electronic aids to daily living, seating and positioning systems) used to enhance occupational performance and foster participation and well-being.
9. Provide training in techniques to enhance community mobility, and address transportation transitions, including driver rehabilitation and community access.
10. Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include: Electronic documentation systems  Virtual environments  Telehealth technology
11. Assess, grade, and modify the way persons, groups, and populations perform occupations and activities by adapting processes, modifying environments, and applying ergonomic principles to reflect the changing needs of the client, sociocultural context, and technological advances.
12. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:  To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations.  To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience.
13. Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, third party, private payer), treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and coding and documentation requirements that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services.
14. Explain an understanding of the business aspects of practice including, but not limited to, financial management, billing, and coding.
15. Participate in the documentation of ongoing processes for quality management and improvement (e.g., outcome studies analysis and client engagement surveys) and implement program changes as needed to demonstrate quality of services.
16. Define strategies for effective, competency-based legal and ethical supervision of occupational therapy assistants and non-occupational therapy personnel.
17. Locate and demonstrate understanding of professional literature, including the quality of the source of information, to make evidence-based practice decisions in collaboration with the occupational therapist. Explain how scholarly activities and literature contribute to the development of the profession.
18. Understand the difference between quantitative and qualitative research studies.
19. Demonstrate the skills to understand a scholarly report.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
5. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.
6. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.
7. Read and use professional literature in the field of occupational therapy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 211 - Therapeutic Practices Clinical Skills Training

1. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
2. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
3. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions
4. Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
6. Provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training, and advocacy.
7. Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices.
8. Provide training in techniques to enhance community mobility, and address transportation transitions, including driver rehabilitation and community access.
9. Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include:

• Electronic documentation systems
• Virtual environments
• Telehealth technology

10. Assess, grade, and modify the way persons, groups, and populations perform occupations and activities by adapting processes, modifying environments, and applying ergonomic principles to reflect the changing needs of the client, sociocultural context, and technological advances.
11. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:

• To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations.
• To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 212 - Therapeutic Group Leadership

1. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments. 
2. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:  
   • To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations.
   • To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience. 

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 213 - Therapeutic Group Leadership Lab

1. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
2. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:  
   • To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations.
   • To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience. 
3. Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to design community and primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups, and populations. 

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 220 - Therapeutic Activities 2

1. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments. 
2. Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations. 
3. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan. 
4. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:
   • To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations. 
   • To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience.
5. Demonstrate effective intra-professional OT/OTA collaboration to explain the role of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist in the screening and evaluation process.
6. Demonstrate awareness of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population-centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 221 - Therapeutic Group Activities 2 Lab

1. Explain to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, and the general public the distinct nature of occupation and the evidence that occupation supports performance, participation, health, and well-being.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations.
3. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
4. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance.
5. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
6. Provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training, and advocacy.
7. Engage in the consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intra-professional colleagues.
8. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching- learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches:
   • To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations.  
   • To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience.
9. Identify occupational needs through effective communication with patients, families, communities, and members of the interprofessional team in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion of health and wellness.
10. Demonstrate awareness of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population-centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 222 - Clinical Seminar 2

1. Explain the role of sociocultural, socioeconomic, and diversity factors, as well as lifestyle choices in contemporary society to meet the needs of persons, groups, and populations (e.g., principles of psychology, sociology, and abnormal psychology). 
2. Apply knowledge of occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice.
3. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan. 
4. Demonstrate the ability to compare and integrate model of practice, frames of reference into practice.
5. Standardized and Nonstandardized Screening and Assessment Tools: Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence. 
6. Technology in Practice: Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include: 
   • Electronic documentation systems  
   • Virtual environments  
   • Telehealth technology 

1. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 223 - Application of OTA Co-op Experience 2

1. Plan and prepare for treatment of patients/clients.
2. Implement treatment activity with patients/clients as assigned by fieldwork (FW) Clinical Instructor (CI).
3. Observation and recording of patient/client/student performance.
4. Use effective work habits in the clinical setting.
5. Communicate effectively with patient/clients and staff.
6. Apply treatment theories and techniques used in the assigned clinics.
7. Use observation, histories, and interviews of patient as assigned to assist in the screening and assessment of patients.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 224 - Therapeutic Adaptations

1. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
2. Assistive Technologies and Devices: Explain the need for used of enhance occupational performance and foster participation and well-being.
3. Orthoses and Prosthetic Devices: Explain the need for orthotics, and design, fabricate, apply, fit, and train in orthoses and devices used to enhance occupational performance and participation. Train in the safe and effective use of prosthetic devices.
4. Identify what type of training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management and mobility devices.
5. Community Mobility: demonstrate knowledge of training in techniques to enhance community mobility, and address transportation transitions, including community access (driver’s rehabilitation component addressed in Geriatrics).
6. Superficial Thermal, Deep Thermal, and Elecrotherapeutic Agents and Mechanical Devices: Safely and effectively apply superficial thermal agents, deep thermal agents, electrotherapeutic agents, and mechanical devices as a preparatory measure to improve occupational performance. This must include indications, contraindications, and precautions.
7. Care Coordination, Case Management, and Transition Services: Demonstrate through integration of roles in Business proposal care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments.
8. Identify the need to design community and primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups and population.
9. Plan for Discharge: Implement a discharge plan from occupational therapy services that was developed by the occupational therapist in collaboration with the client and members of the interprofessional team by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment.
10. Business Aspects of Practice: Explain an understanding of the business aspects of practice including, but not limited to, financial management, billing, and coding.
11. Preparation for Work in an Academic Setting: Understand the principles of teaching and learning in preparation for work in an academic setting.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 225 - Application of Therapeutic Activities

1. Demonstrate application of scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
2. Demonstrate ability to therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
   • Utilizing lab time efficiently.
   • Utilizing supplies and materials in an efficient manner.
   • Assisting peers as needed during lab tasks/group projects.
   • Utilizing reference materials independently in design and construction.
   • Applying previously learned skills to construct projects with minimal supervision.
   • Submitting assigned projects on specified due dates.
3. Assistive Technologies and Devices: Demonstrate strategies with assistive technologies and devices (e.g., electronic aids to daily living, seating and positioning systems) used to enhance occupational performance and foster participation and well-being.
4. Orthoses and Prosthetic Training: Fabricate, apply and demonstrate training in use of orthoses and devices used to enhance occupational performance and participation. Train in the safe and effective use of prosthetic devices.
5. Demonstrate understanding to provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management and mobility devices.
6. Community Mobility: Demonstrate integration of  training  techniques to enhance community mobility, and address transportation transitions, including community access (driver’s rehabilitation component addressed in Geriatrics).
7. Grade and Adapt Processes or Environments: Desmonstrate ability to assess grade, and modify the way persons, groups, and populations perform occupations and activities by adapting processes, modifying environments, and applying ergonomic principles to reflect the changing needs of the client, sociocultural context, and technological advances.
8. Care Coordination, Case Management, and Transition Services: Apply knowledge learned about care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments.
9. Plan for Discharge: Implement a discharge plan from occupational therapy services that was developed by the occupational therapist in collaboration with the client and members of the interprofessional team by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment.
10. Business Aspects of Practice: Apply concepts learned about the business aspects of practice including, but not limited to, financial management, billing, and coding.
11. Preparation for Work in an Academic Setting: Apply the principles of teaching and learning in preparation for work in an academic setting.
12. Demonstrate the ability to select and order appropriate materials and supplies needed for assistive device fabrication and clinical use in a variety of treatment settings and to communicate those needs to coworkers/ supervisors.
13. Demonstrate an understanding of methods that reduce architectural barriers as well as adapt environments including application of ergonomic principles, safety and occupational health prevention, maintenance and promotion; effectively communicating these findings to educate and train the client/caregiver and other health providers via written, oral and nonverbal communication in a professionally acceptable manner that demonstrates an understanding of health literacy of the audience.
14. Display understanding of the use of technology, both high and low tech and compensatory strategies needed to support performance, health and well-being and to be able to teach the use of these.
15. Provide therapeutic use of occupation based intervention including preparatory methods, exercises and purposeful activities.
16. Superficial Thermal, Deep Thermal, and Elecrotherapeutic Agents and Mechanical Devices: Define the safe and effective application of superficial thermal agents, deep thermal agents, electrotherapeutic agents, and mechanical devices as a preparatory measure to improve occupational performance. This must include indications, contraindications, and precautions. 

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 228 - Pre-Fieldwork Experience Seminar

1. Demonstrate sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice. This must include the ability to assess and monitor vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory status, and temperature) to ensure that the client is stable for intervention. 
2. Standardized and Nonstandardized Screening and Assessment Tools: Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.  
3. Reimbursement Systems and Documentation: Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, third party, private payer), treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and coding and documentation requirements that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services. 
4. Advocacy: Explain the role and responsibility of the practitioner to advocate for changes in service delivery policies, effect changes in the system, recognize opportunities in emerging practice areas, and advocate for opportunities to expand the occupational therapy assistant’s role.
5. Requirements for Credentialing and Licensure: Provide care and programs that demonstrate knowledge of applicable national requirements for credentialing and requirements for licensure, certification, or registration consistent with federal and state laws. 
6. Preparation for Work in an Academic Setting: Understand the principles of teaching and learning in preparation for work in an academic setting. 
7. Personal and Professional Responsibilities: Demonstrate knowledge of personal and professional responsibilities related to: Liability issues under current models of service provision. Varied roles of the occupational therapy assistant providing service on a contractual basis. 
8. Describe ongoing responsibility for providing fieldwork education and criteria for becoming a Fieldwork (FW) Clinical Instructor.
9. Identify and explain FW Level 2 objectives per AOTA performance evaluation.
10. Demonstrate basic knowledge of searching for a job, resume writing and interview skills.

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
3. Describe the context of occupational therapy services.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 240 - Fieldwork Experience Seminar 1

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of heath for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions.  This must include epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
2. Understand the importance of professional responsibility to continue to improve self.  Student will identify challenges and how a plan to meet those challenges while in fieldwork.
3. Articulate the characteristic of the relationship between their Clinical Instructor and themselves as well as the Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy Assistant collaboration.
4. Demonstrate use of evidence base knowledge when articulating professional reasoning.
5. Become more aware with strategies/treatment techniques used in a variety of settings.
6. Identify what made their relationship with their Fieldwork Educator successful, discover what makes the collaborative approach to supervision and patient care, methods used to establish roles.
7. Understand the importance of professional responsibility to continue to improve self.  Student will identify challenges and how a plan to meet those challenges while in fieldwork.
8. Demonstrate ability to identify and meet the needs identified in their fieldwork site.
9. Articulate the role of the Occupation Therapy Assistant and Occupational Therapist in the screening and evaluation process along with the importance of and rationale for supervision and collaborative work between the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist is that process.
10. Participate in the documentation of ongoing process of quality management and improvement and demonstrate program changes as needed to demonstrate quality of services.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 241 - Fieldwork Experience Seminar 2

1. Requirements for Credentialing and Licensure: Provide care and programs that demonstrate knowledge of applicable national requirements for credentialing and requirements for licensure, certification, or registration consistent with federal and state laws.
2. Understand the importance of professional responsibility to continue to improve self. Student will identify challenges and how a plan to meet those challenges while in fieldwork.
3. Articulate the characteristic of the relationship between their Clinical Instructor and themselves as well as the Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy Assistant collaboration.
4. Demonstrate use of evidence base knowledge when articulating professional reasoning.
5. Quality of Management and Improvement: Participate in the documentation of ongoing processes for quality management and improvement (e.g., outcome studies analysis and client engagement surveys) and implement program changes as needed to demonstrate quality of services.
6. Become more aware with strategies/treatment techniques used in a variety of settings.
7. Identify what made their relationship with their Fieldwork Educator successful, discover what makes the collaborative approach to supervision and patient care, methods used to establish roles.
8. Demonstrate ability to identify and meet the needs identified in their fieldwork site.
9. Articulate the role of the Occupation Therapy Assistant and Occupational Therapist in the screening and evaluation process along with the importance of and rationale for supervision and collaborative work between the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist is that process.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

OTA 245 - Co-op Fieldwork Experience 1

Credits: 11
Fieldwork experience includes practice in one of the following areas: physical disabilities, psychological dysfunction, geriatrics, developmental disabilities, pediatrics, work hardening/pain management, or hand therapy under the supervision of a licensed occupational therapy practitioner. This is a pass/no credit course.

Enrollment Requirement: Concurrent enrollment in OTA 240 ; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Adhere to the American AOTA Association Code of Ethics and all federal, state and facility regulations.
2. Adhere to safety regulations and reports/documents incidents appropriately.
3. Ensure the safety of self and others during all fieldwork related activities by anticipating potentially unsafe situations and taking steps to prevent accidents.
4. Articulate the values, beliefs, and distinct perspective of the occupational therapy profession to clients and other relevant parties clearly, confidently, and accurately.
5. Articulate the value of occupation as a method and desired outcome of occupational therapy to clients and other relevant parties clearly, confidently, and accurately.
6. Articulate the role of occupational therapy practitioners to clients and other relevant parties clearly, confidently, and accurately.
7. Obtain sufficient and necessary information about factors that support and hinder occupational performance from relevant sources throughout the evaluation process.
8. Establishes service competency in assessment methods, in accordance with setting procedures and applicable laws, by administering assessments accurately and efficiently to ensure findings are valid, reliable, and timely.
9. Administer delegated assessments using appropriate procedures and protocols.
10. Assist with interpreting information in relation to the client’s needs, factors, and performance.
11. Report results clearly, accurately, and concisely, reflecting the client’s occupational performance.
12. Articulate a clear and logical rationale for the intervention process based on the evaluation results and other relevant considerations.
13. Under the supervision of and in cooperation with an occupational therapy practitioner, uses professional literature to make informed intervention decisions.
14. Select client-centered and occupation-based interventions that motivate and challenge the client to achieve established goals.
15. Implement client-centered and occupation-based intervention plans.

16. Modify the task and/or environment to maximize the client’s performance.

17. Recommend modification or termination of intervention plan based on the client’s status.

18. Document the client’s response to services in a manner that demonstrates the effectiveness of interventions.

19. Demonstrate through practice or discussion the ability to collaborate with and assign appropriate tasks to, as indicated, the occupational therapy aide or others to whom responsibilities might be assigned.

20. Demonstrate through practice or discussion an understanding of costs and funding systems related to occupational therapy services, such as federal, state, third party, and private payers.

21. Demonstrate knowledge about the organization.      

22. Meet productivity standards or volume of work expected of occupational therapy assistant students.

23. Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and nonverbally.

24. Produce clear and accurate documentation.

25. Collaborate with fieldwork educator(s) to maximize the learning experience.

26. Take responsibility for attaining professional competence by seeking out learning opportunities and interactions with fieldwork educator(s) and others.

27. Respond constructively to feedback in a timely manner.

28. Demonstrate consistent and acceptable work behaviors.                

29. Manage relationships effectively through therapeutic use of self and adjusts approach to meet the needs of clients and others.

30. Demonstrate effective time management.

31. Demonstrate respect for diversity factors of others. 

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OTA 246 - Co-op Fieldwork Experience 2

Credits: 11
Fieldwork experience includes practice in one of the following areas: physical disabilities, psychological dysfunction, geriatrics, developmental disabilities, pediatrics, work hardening/pain management, or hand therapy under the supervision of a licensed occupational therapy practitioner. This is a pass/no credit course.

Enrollment Requirement: OTA 245  with grade of 2.0 or higher; concurrent enrollment in OTA 241 ; or instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Adhere to the American AOTA Association Code of Ethics and all federal, state and facility regulations.
2. Adhere to safety regulations and reports/documents incidents appropriately.
3. Ensure the safety of self and others during all fieldwork related activities by anticipating potentially unsafe situations and taking steps to prevent accidents.
4. Articulate the values, beliefs, and distinct perspective of the occupational therapy profession to clients and other relevant parties clearly, confidently, and accurately.
5. Articulate the value of occupation as a method and desired outcome of occupational therapy to clients and other relevant parties clearly, confidently, and accurately.
6. Articulate the role of occupational therapy practitioners to clients and other relevant parties clearly, confidently, and accurately.
7. Obtain sufficient and necessary information about factors that support and hinder occupational performance from relevant sources throughout the evaluation process.
8. Establishes service competency in assessment methods, in accordance with setting procedures and applicable laws, by administering assessments accurately and efficiently to ensure findings are valid, reliable, and timely.
9. Administer delegated assessments using appropriate procedures and protocols.
10. Assist with interpreting information in relation to the client’s needs, factors, and performance.
11. Report results clearly, accurately, and concisely, reflecting the client’s occupational performance.
12. Articulate a clear and logical rationale for the intervention process based on the evaluation results and other relevant considerations.
13. Under the supervision of and in cooperation with an occupational therapy practitioner, uses professional literature to make informed intervention decisions.
14. Select client-centered and occupation-based interventions that motivate and challenge the client to achieve established goals.
15. Implement client-centered and occupation-based intervention plans.

16. Modify the task and/or environment to maximize the client’s performance.

17. Recommend modification or termination of intervention plan based on the client’s status.

18. Document the client’s response to services in a manner that demonstrates the effectiveness of interventions.

19. Demonstrate through practice or discussion the ability to collaborate with and assign appropriate tasks to, as indicated, the occupational therapy aide or others to whom responsibilities might be assigned.

20. Demonstrate through practice or discussion an understanding of costs and funding systems related to occupational therapy services, such as federal, state, third party, and private payers.

21. Demonstrate knowledge about the organization.      

22. Meet productivity standards or volume of work expected of occupational therapy assistant students.

23. Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and nonverbally.

24. Produce clear and accurate documentation.

25. Collaborate with fieldwork educator(s) to maximize the learning experience.

26. Take responsibility for attaining professional competence by seeking out learning opportunities and interactions with fieldwork educator(s) and others.

27. Respond constructively to feedback in a timely manner.

28. Demonstrate consistent and acceptable work behaviors.                

29. Manage relationships effectively through therapeutic use of self and adjusts approach to meet the needs of clients and others.

30. Demonstrate effective time management.

31. Demonstrate respect for diversity factors of others. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.

OCEA& 101 - Introduction to Oceanography

1. Apply information presented during the lectures to the solutions of open-ended questions.
2. Make observations (in class and on field trips) and correctly link those observations to information from the course.
3. Use a computer to analyze and obtain oceanographic data.
4. Work effectively with peers in finding solutions to oceanographic problems.

1. Produce written interpretations of oceanographic materials
2. Make oceanographic inferences from newly presented materials.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

PHIL& 101 - Introduction to Philosophy

Credits: 5
Introduces students to the major problems and figures of philosophy. Gives students a greater understanding of human experience through the examination of the concepts of reality, knowledge and value. Questions posed may include: Does God exists? Do we act freely? Is the mind distinct from the body? Can we ever know anything for certain? What really matters?

Enrollment Requirement: Eligible for ENGL 99  or instructor consent.

Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Demonstrate command of  important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments from the four major areas of philosophy.

2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various philosophical sources.

 

College-wide Outcomes

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 102 - Contemporary Moral Problems

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments of the major normative ethical theories.
2. Apply major normative ethical theories apply to contemporary moral issues such as abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, food ethics, gun control, and other issues of similar urgency.
3. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to contemporary moral philosophy.
4. Recognize the consequences of their actions and hold themselves accountable.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 103 - Historical Survey-Ancient Philosophy

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments  from pre-Socratic ancient Greece up to the early Christian era.
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to ancient philosophy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 105 - Historical Survey-Modern Philosophy

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments from the Enlightenment through the end of the nineteenth century. 
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to modern philosophy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 108 - Historical Survey-Contemporary Philosophy

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments from roughly the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to contemporary philosophy.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 110 - Social and Political Philosophy

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments concerning the establishment and justification of societies.
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to social and political philosophy.
3. Identify just relationships amongst and between members and societies.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 111 - Science, Technology, and Value

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments related to technological usage, research, and advancement.
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to science, technology, and value.
3. Identify the practical implications of the interconnectedness of human values and technological development to their own lives and professions.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 112 - Ethics in the Workplace

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments related to ethical issues in the workplace. 
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to ethics in the workplace.
3. Identify the practical implications of ethical issues in the workplace on their own lives and professions.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL& 115 - Critical Thinking

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments related to the systematic formulation and evaluation of beliefs by rational standards. 
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to critical thinking.
3. Relate critical thinking to personal freedom and empowerment.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL& 120 - Symbolic Logic

1. Distinguish key concepts and terms in logic.
2. Translate from English to the language of propositional and predicate logic.
3. Construct truth tables to reveal the logical structure of individual statements, multiple statements, and determine the validity of an argument.
4. Construct proofs in propositional and predicate logic.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.

PHIL 160 - Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments related to philosophy of science. 
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to philosophy of science.
3. Trace the influence of philosophy on scientific theories and practices.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 199 - Independent Study in Philosophy

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments related to agreed upon topic.
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to the agreed upon topic.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.

PHIL 200 - Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

1. Demonstrate command of important philosophical terminology, themes, and arguments related to philosophy of religion.
2. State and evaluate non-trivial theories and arguments from various sources related to philosophy of religion.
3. Apply a consistent critical lens to the claims or doctrines of any religion.

1. Form, analyze, and assess beliefs while demonstrating intellectual humility and respect towards the beliefs of others.
2. Analyze cultural perspectives and values of a multicultural world.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.