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Brief Description of the Course:
OTA 1170 Dysfunction of the Body Fieldwork I consists of a thirty-hour clinical site experience and one hour of lectures per week. Lecture requires intellectual & practical competency-based assignments, which prepares students for the off-site experience and subsequent fieldwork IIs. The externship will be organized by an academic fieldwork coordinator and will take place at community-based clinical facility locations. The goal is to help students acquire professional attitudes and clinical observation skills while exposing them to a range of diseases.This course is approved for service learning.
Community-engaged learning project description & reflection:
This fieldwork class helped me have a better understanding of how to create a SOAP note during a therapy session with a client . The abbreviation for subjective, objective, assessment, and plan is SOAP. All of them should have the proper documentation since they are significant elements of occupational therapy intervention. It will be easier to make sure that no important components of therapy are overlooked if SOAP notes are used. According to what I learned in class, SOAP notes help OTAs assess, diagnose, and treat patients using clinical reasoning.
I saw how my COTAs wrote a SOAP note during my fieldwork, and although it didn't seem like what I learned in class, the template was the same. Being able to create a SOAP note will be beneficial to me as an OTP in the future because it's a crucial tool for documenting client experiences during therapy and it puts the client's needs before the therapists'. I discovered that keeping a SOAP note is crucial for therapy as it allows one to see exactly what the client has been working on, determines the best course of action for therapy, and identifies the client's short- and long-term goals.
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