OT DOCUMENTATION

Catalog description

This course provides occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students the skills to document accurately and effectively in today's health care whether the Occupational Therapy (OT) practitioner is completing documentation by hand or electronically. This course provides a framework for completing daily documentation and progress notes. Reporting objective data, use of abbreviations, and use of terminology with written and electronic documentation is explored. This course relates to the curriculum design as documentation is used in all assessment and intervention classes. Learning the foundations of documentation is an important building block and can be adapted for use in any intervention area of practice.