The following is a list of essential functions that a student must be capable of performing while enrolled in the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program.
身体运动技能
学生必须能够:
- Sit in class for up to 7 hours per day.
- 安全的弯曲, 电梯, 扭, 推, 拉, and transfer up to 100 pounds to assist in moving a client from one surface to another.
- Assist with resistance of a client’s arm, trunk, or legs during activities of daily living.
- Move with adequate agility and speed to ensure client safety.
- Walk and balance well enough to assist clients walk and transfer with or without equipment, while preventing injury to client and self.
- Safely grasp and manipulate small objects and set dials on electrical equipment.
- Use equipment that emits electrical, ultrasonic, and thermal energy.
Observational and Sensory Skills
学生必须能够:
- Use visual, auditory, and 机智ile senses to observe clients and collect and interpret data.
- Read and interpret equipment dials, 客户图, 专业文献, and notes from clients/clients primary care giver, 医生, 以及其他专业人士.
- Respond to warning sounds, machine alarms, and calls for help.
Cognitive and Conceptual Skills
学生必须能够:
- Demonstrate the ability to use proper English spelling, punctuation and grammar to document and explain procedures and to teach skills.
- Meet teaching-learning objectives, in order to, successfully complete each course.
- Think critically for sound clinical judgment in the delivery of occupational therapy services: plan implement, and synthesize appropriate client-centered interventions; problem solve to make adjustments in therapeutic interventions based on appropriate and inappropriate physiological and psychological responses by clients’ determine need for consultation with occupational therapist and other health care providers/team members.
Behavioral, Social, and Professional Conduct
学生必须能够:
- Recognize and respond appropriately to individuals of all ages, 性别, 和种族, 从社会经济的角度来看, 宗教, 文化背景.
- Function safely, effectively, and calmly under demanding and stressful situations.
- 对周围环境保持警惕, potential emergencies; respond to client situations including falls, 疼痛, changes in physical and/or mental status.
- Prioritize multiple tasks and maintain composure while managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Exhibit social skills necessary to interact effective with clients, 家庭, 监事, co-workers and community members of the same or different cultures with respect, 同情, 礼貌, 机智, 协作, 团队合作, 和自由裁量权.
- Display attitudes and actions to effectively engage in the supervisory and teacher-student process including acceptance of feedback, modifying behavior in relation to the feedback and providing feedback in the classroom or practice environment.
- Recognize and respond appropriately to potentially hazardous situations.
- Demonstrate the physical and emotional capacity to work a 40+ hour week while on fieldwork II experience, with industry standard productivity standards.
- 行为举止合乎道德, 主管, 富有同情心的, and professional manner in the classroom and in the practice environment.
Additional standards may be provided at time of acceptance into program. Students who have concerns about the ability to perform any of these functions should con机智 the campus Coordinator of Disabilities Resources, 坎德拉Wolgast. Students with documented disabilities are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Students who cannot meet the standards with reasonable accommodations will receive career counseling, as acceptance into the OTA program would be inappropriate for employment for safety reasons.