Course Description:

This course prepares students for a pediatric off-site experience along with instruction on evidence-based treatment. Designated community-engaged learning course (more details below). 

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize and abide by facility requirement for patient confidentiality and patient rights.

• Observe and participate in the Occupational Therapy (OT) process as it relates to evidence based practice and the individual fieldwork site.

• Improve clinical observation skills of evidence based practices and practice outcomes.

• Demonstrate the ability to participate in service maintenance including the demonstration of safety for client and clinician.

• Identify the uniqueness of service delivery models in various practice settings including medical/school based/community for pediatric OT practice.

• Establish understanding and implementation of models of practice and frames of reference for pediatric OT practice.

• Provide and accept feedback, modifying behavior as needed.

• Communicate and collaborate effectively through verbal, non-verbal, and written responses/documentation with all stakeholders.

• Identify self as an Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) student 100% of the time.

• Consistently use politically correct and people first language in written and oral communication.

• Read, understand, and analyze basic quantitative measures from a peer reviewed journal article for practice-based decisions.

• Report using quantitative measurements in all types of documentation.

• Integrate classroom knowledge demonstrated by identification of diagnosis, functional deficits, occupational areas, measurability of goals, treatment techniques, and client response to intervention.

• Analyze information to present in oral and/or written formats.

• Interpret pertinent information from peer reviewed journal articles to make the best evidence-based practice decisions.

• Discern levels of strength in research articles in choosing best practice evidence for treatment interventions and recommendations.

• Complete a service-learning project for facility/client use.

• Engage and participate in a community based outpatient clinic to enhance the academic experience.

• Interact with various stakeholders in a professional and ethical manner.

• Facilitate discharge planning by reviewing the needs of the client and other stakeholders; available resource; and discharge environment, and identify those needs to the OT, client and other stakeholders involved in discharge planning.

• Participate in service delivery of OTA clinic clients with a peer partner.

• Use technology and information literacy to access course materials and complete assignments.

• Effectively locate online evidence based resources including peer-reviewed scientific journal articles about occupational therapy interventions.

Reflection: