Foundations and Professional Responsibilities

1. Demonstrates consistent personal and professional ethical behavior
2. Demonstrates positive interpersonal skills
3. Communicates the values and beliefs of OT to clients, staff and family
4. Demonstrates good written and oral communication skills
5. Seeks and responds constructively to feedback
6. Takes responsibility for own learning
7. Identifies strategies for ongoing professional development
8. Participates in professional activities to advance the profession

Evaluation and Intervention in Practice Settings

9. Adheres to safety regulations in regard to safety of self and others
10. Demonstrates ability to establish rapport
11. Demonstrates respect for diversity factors and lifestyle choices of others
12. Analyzes impact of person-environment factors on OT evaluation and intervention
13. Selects appropriate screening and assessment tools based on client need and context
14. Refers to specialists for consultation and intervention
15. Uses standardized and non-standardized screening and assessment tools appropriately
16. Uses theories, practice models, and frames of reference to guide and inform evaluation and intervention
17. Makes informed practice decisions based on critical analyses of the evidence
18. Develops and implements occupationally-based intervention plans based on appropriate theoretical approach and client needs

• Modifies environments (home, work, school, community) and adapts processes
• Provides design and training in assistive technologies and devices, including fabrication of splints
• Provides recommendations and training to enhance mobility including transfers, wheelchair management, community mobility and driver rehabilitation
• Provides management of swallowing, feeding and eating to enable performance, and make referrals to specialists when appropriate
• Develops, remediates and teaches compensatory strategies for physical, cognitive, perceptual, neuromuscular, behavioral, and sensory skills (e.g., vision, tactile, vestibular, auditory, gustatory, and olfactory)
• Demonstrates safe and effective application of physical agent modalities

19. Demonstrates skills in supervising and collaborating with OTAs
20. Documents services and maintains records to ensure accountability and meet reimbursement and facility standards
21. Demonstrates knowledge and compliance with reimbursement mechanisms
22. Monitors and reassess the effect of OT intervention and need for continued or modified services
23. Develops discharge plans and terminates OT services as appropriate
24. Reports evaluation results and modifies practice to imrpove outcomes
25. Provides client and family education to support occupational participation

OT Service Delivery and Research

26. Manages time, schedules and prioritizes workload appropriately
27. Develops strategies for effective use of OT and non-OT staff
28. Understands trends in models of service delivery and their effect on OT practice
29. Considers the impact of contextual factors on management and delivery of OT services
30. Demonstrates ability to design processes for quality improvement and develop program changes
31. Understands factors that promote policy development and provision of OT services
32. Demonstrates knowledge of state, federal and professional standards that shape practice
33. Demonstrates knowledge of advocacy to benefit consumers and the profession
34. Identifies opportunities to address societal needs by participating in the development and marketing of OT services
35. Uses research/professional literature to make evidence-based decisions
36. Understands and critiques research studies
37. Designs and implements beginning-level research studies