OTA 111 - Fundamentals of Occupational Therapy as Health Care Providers

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.