Intro to Clinical Skills

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to basic occupational therapy clinical skills required for work in a variety of clinical settings. Students will be required to demonstrate competencies in, but not limited to, obtaining vital signs, employing safe infection control, and standard precautions. Students will develop basic interviewing, communication, and observation skills. Students will learn client positioning, functional mobility (bed mobility, transfers, and ambulation), ADL and IADL retraining skills using strategies and or compensatory adaptive equipment. Students will begin to develop skills in clinical reasoning, adaptation, teaching, and skills of writing for documenting goals and treatment notes as components of a medical record.