OTA 111 - Fundamentals of Occupational Therapy as Health Care Providers

1. Demonstrate sound judgment regarding 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. Demonstrate effective communication with clients, care partners, communities, and members of the intraprofessional and interprofessional teams in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to promote client outcomes.
3. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context, and client factors to implement the intervention plan. 
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. 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. Demonstrate knowledge of: 
   • The consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intraprofessional colleagues. 
   • Care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments. 
7. Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to refer to specialists both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies
8. 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. 
9. Demonstrate effective communication with clients, care partners, communities, and members of the intraprofessional and interprofessional teams in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to promote client outcomes. 
10. Demonstrate knowledge of effective leadership styles. Identify personal and professional strengths and areas for growth to become an effective leader. 
11. Demonstrate the application of principles of instructional design and teaching and learning in content related to occupational therapy which includes at minimum:Development of learning objectives. Design of material. Development of learning assessment. Delivery of professional presentation. Self-reflection of process.
12. Define and list the components of the occupational profile.
13. Demonstrate knowledge of medical terms and abbreviations related to OT profession.
14. 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.