Description
This seminar course is designed to assist students in integrating all of their acquired knowledge and skills. Students will clarify the contexts of health care environments and systems as they relate to OT. Students will learn how OT service is implemented in varied environments. The course will emphasize arenas in which OTAs have typically worked, as well as emerging areas of practice and associated OTA roles. Students will have opportunities to further explore and develop Occupational Therapy ethics, citizenship and professionalism, quality assurance, marketing techniques, supervisory and role responsibilities of the OTA practitioner in health care. Personal and OT leadership will be examined. Students will gain an understanding of OT service delivery, and will investigate professional literature as it relates to evidence based practice, current social issues, competency and professional development. The impact of public policy, legislative action, advocacy, and fiscal regulatory boa