Fieldwork Level I: Physical Disability Practice: Adolescents and Adults

Catalog description

This course provides the opportunity for students to directly experience occupational therapy practice in adolescents/adults with physical disability in a clinical or community setting. Through fieldwork experience, students will begin to integrate and apply the theoretical knowledge, and professional behaviors/attitudes and clinical skills learned in the classroom. An integrative clinical reasoning fieldwork seminar accompanies the fieldwork experience to provide students with an opportunity to analyze the professional and clinical practices observed in the clinic/community setting, and integrates this with the clients' cultural background, health status, and valued occupations. Students will complete intensive documentation assignments that will help facilitate their understanding and ability to analyze and synthesize a client's information in an occupational profile/evaluation in order to create long /short-term goals, formulate an evidence based treatment plan, progress note and discharge note. The co-requisites of OT 225, OT 227, OT 235, OT 243 and OT 244 are required. The pre-requisites of OT 220, OT 222, OT 232 and OT 242 are required.