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Who are Occupational Therapy Practitioners?
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Occupational Therapist OT
Occupational Therapy Assistant OTA OT Aides are NOT considered OT practitioners |
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Explain the OT's role.
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1. Responsible for all aspects of service delivery and accountable for the safety and effectiveness of the OT service delivery process (which includes evaluation, intervention planning, intervention implementation, intervention review, and outcome evaluation).
2. Directs the evaluation process (must complete the evaluation herself, but can delegate certain aspects i.e. assessments to the OTA). 3. Overall responsibility for the development and implementation of the intervention plan. |
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Explain the OT's role (Cont'd).
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4. Responsible for determining the need for continuing, modifying, or discontinuing OT services.
5. Selecting, measuring, and interpreting outcomes that are related to the client’s ability to engage in occupations. 6. Responsible for supervision of the OTA (depending on setting and OTA experience the supervision may vary, i.e. direct to minimal supervision). 7. Responsible for the overall use and actions of the OT aide. Trained by the OT or OTA to perform specifically delegated tasks (which could be client and non-client tasks). |
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Explain the role of the OTA.
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1. Delivers OT services under the supervision of and in partnership with the OT.
2. Implements delegated assessments, provides verbal and written reports of observations and client capacities to the OT 3. Collaborates with OT and client to develop intervention plan 4. Communicating with OT about client’s responses to and communications during intervention. |
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Explain the role of the OTA (Cont'd).
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5. Selects, implements, and makes modifications to therapeutic activities and interventions consistent with demonstrated competency levels, goals, and requirements of the practice setting.
6. The OTA can implement outcome measurements as given by the OT and provide needed client discharge resources. 7. The OTA can supervise an OT aide 8. OTA's can be activities directors in nursing homes. |
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What is the OTA's primary role?
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To implement treatment.
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What are the basic differences between OT and OTA?
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1. The occupational therapist is responsible for directing the entire treatment process (evaluation, treatment, outcome, discharge). The OT does not need supervision.
2. The OTA’s primary role is to implement treatment. The OTA requires supervision by the OT. The supervision may vary depending on setting and experience of OTA. 3. OTA’s cannot independently do evaluations but can contribute under the direction of the OT, and must wait until the evaluation is complete before initiating treatment. |
