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. Functional Mobility: Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices. 
4. 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. 
5. 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.
6. 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. 
7. Preparation for Work in an Academic Setting: Understand the principles of teaching and learning in preparation for work in an academic setting. 
8. 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. 
9. Describe ongoing responsibility for providing fieldwork education and criteria for becoming a Fieldwork (FW) Clinical Instructor.
10. Identify and explain FW Level 2 objectives per AOTA performance evaluation.
11. 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.