Comprehensive skills in management, administration, and leadership are essential for occupational therapy assistants (OTA) in their daily interactions with their clients in various health care environments.
Inside Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills, Dr. Karen Jacobs has gathered an expert team of 11 contributors of clinicians, academicians, administrators, managers, and graduate students to address each of the ACOTE Standards with a focus on evidence-based literature and examples of the leadership and management skills needed as an OTA.
What you will learn from Management and Administration for the OTA:
The chapters of Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills also includes 5 key vocabulary terms and their definitions, case examples relevant to the content, website resources, and multiple choice review questions.
Instructors in educational settings can visit www.efacultylounge.com for additional materials to be used for teaching in the classroom.
Straightforward, comprehensive, and user-friendly, Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills will provide OTA students and clinicians with an essential resource for their future success.
Inside Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills, Dr. Karen Jacobs has gathered an expert team of 11 contributors of clinicians, academicians, administrators, managers, and graduate students to address each of the ACOTE Standards with a focus on evidence-based literature and examples of the leadership and management skills needed as an OTA.
What you will learn from Management and Administration for the OTA:
- Contexts and Health Carethe potential impact of policy issues as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy
- Leadership and Advocacytwo important roles that OTAs need to assume to be agents of change
- Credentialingintroduces the national requirements for credentialing and for licensure, certification or registration under state laws
- Reimbursementthe various reimbursement systems requirements that affect the practice of occupational therapy
- Marketing and PromotingThe role of the OTA to promote the distinct value of occupational therapy to the public, as well as other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, and regulatory bodies
- Documentation and Quality Improvementto ensure the OTA provides the highest quality of occupational therapy services
- Supervisionto understand the important relationship between the OTA, the OT, and nonprofessional personnel
- Fieldworkto understand the role, criteria, and components of the OTA in fieldwork education
- Communication Skillsdefine health literacy and discuss how to use this concept to better understand the client, the clients health environment, and the clients occupations and health activities
- Ethicsexplore the components of ethics that impact the delivery of occupational therapy and the foundational skills and knowledge needed by the OTA to maintain high standards of responsible, ethical practice
- Scholarship and Scholarly Practiceassists the OTA with how to articulate the importance of how scholarly activities and the evidence-based literature contribute to the distinct value and advancement of occupational therapy
The chapters of Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills also includes 5 key vocabulary terms and their definitions, case examples relevant to the content, website resources, and multiple choice review questions.
Instructors in educational settings can visit www.efacultylounge.com for additional materials to be used for teaching in the classroom.
Straightforward, comprehensive, and user-friendly, Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills will provide OTA students and clinicians with an essential resource for their future success.
