Areas of Practice
A population, rather than a practice setting, this group can be seen in many settings including early intervention.
What is pediatrics?
65,000 including OT, OTA, and students
What is the current AOTA membership?
Knowledge, performance skills, interpersonal abilities, critical reasoning skills, and ethical reasoning skills
What are standard competencies?
This professional designation is for practitioners who help in the OT process
What is COTA?
This is a way we learned to encourage open and diverse thinking about topics, in this case, healthcare policy
What are Critical Thinking questions?
In this sub-acute setting, a primary distinction is the need for therapy and nursing care
What is SNF?
Occupational therapy is influential in changing policy, environments, and complex systems
What is the leadership pillar of vision 2025?
You show this by graduating from an accredited program and pass the NBCOT exam
What are initial competencies?
This is the agency that develops requirements in Iowa for supervision
What is the Iowa OT/PT licensure board?
Included in goal writing, this allows the reader to know how the occupation or activity was performed rather than just the assist level
What are specific conditions?
What are burn units?
As an inclusive profession, occupational therapy maximizes health, well-being, and quality of life for all people, populations, and communities through effective solutions that facilitate participation in everyday living
What is Vision 2025?
This is the number of continuing education required in Iowa
What are 30 credits every 2 years?
What is every 12th visit?
These are based on theories and are designed to help funnel theories into practice
what are frames of reference?
NBCOT, CMS, and the department of health are examples of this type of practice setting
What are regulatory boards/agencies?
To advance occupational therapy practice, education, and research through standard setting and advocacy on behalf of its members, the profession, and the public.
What is the AOTA mission statement?
What is the commission on continuing competencies and professional development?
These are three groups of people OTs might supervise
Who are OTA, OT limited permit holder, OTA limited permit holder?
What is occupational science?
These are three of several examples of what OT can do in a consultative role
What are home mods, health policy/advocacy, legal, industrial, case mang't, and ergonomics?
These "support" and further define the ATOA vision
What are the five pillars?
These are three examples of continuing education activities
What are seminars, workshops, conferences, in-service training, publications, and online resources?
Three functions or duties performed by the supervising OT but NEVER by the OTA
There are many: Eval, re-eval, interpretation of data, etc
This policy made sure insurance companies could not drop customers due to pre-existing conditions. It also changed the definition of poverty to 400% of the current level.
What is the ACA?