OTA 127 - Clinical Seminar Lab

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. Create and implement a plan to address individualized personal and professional responsibilities that are consistent with current accepted standards and long-term professional goals. The plan must address the following: Personal well-being. Alignment with current accepted norms in occupational therapy practice. Advocacy related to clients, occupational therapy, or the role of the occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant. Long-term career objectives. A strategy to evaluate, refine, and update the plan over time.
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. 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 teams by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment.
5. Demonstrates the knowledge of the use of technology in practice which must include  Electronic documentation systems, Virtual environments, Telehealth Tech.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, local, third party, private payer), appeals mechanisms, treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and durable medical equipment coding (e.g., HCPCS) and documentation requirements (e.g., equipment justifications) that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy.
7. Demonstrate effective work habits in the clinical setting. 
8. 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.   

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.