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About This Book
Comprehensive skills in management, administration, and leadership are essential for occupational therapy assistants (OTA) in their daily interactions with their clients in various health care environments.Inside Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills, Dr. Karen Jacobs has gathered an expert team of 11 contributors of clinicians, academicians, administrators, managers, and graduate students to address each of the ACOTE Standards with a focus on evidence-based literature and examples of the leadership and management skills needed as an OTA. What you will learn from Management and Administration for the OTA:
- Contexts and Health Care âthe potential impact of policy issues as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy
- Leadership and Advocacy âtwo important roles that OTAs need to assume to be agents of change
- Credentialing âintroduces the national requirements for credentialing and for licensure, certification or registration under state laws
- Reimbursement âthe various reimbursement systems requirements that affect the practice of occupational therapy
- Marketing and Promoting âThe role of the OTA to promote the distinct value of occupational therapy to the public, as well as other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, and regulatory bodies
- Documentation and Quality Improvement âto ensure the OTA provides the highest quality of occupational therapy services
- Supervision âto understand the important relationship between the OTA, the OT, and nonprofessional personnel
- Fieldwork âto understand the role, criteria, and components of the OTA in fieldwork education
- Communication Skills âdefine health literacy and discuss how to use this concept to better understand the client, the client's health environment, and the client's occupations and health activities
- Ethics âexplore the components of ethics that impact the delivery of occupational therapy and the foundational skills and knowledge needed by the OTA to maintain high standards of responsible, ethical practice
- Scholarship and Scholarly Practice âassists the OTA with how to articulate the importance of how scholarly activities and the evidence-based literature contribute to the distinct value and advancement of occupational therapy
The chapters of Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills also includes 5 key vocabulary terms and their definitions, case examples relevant to the content, website resources, and multiple choice review questions.Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom.
Straightforward, comprehensive, and user-friendly, Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills will provide OTA students and clinicians with an essential resource for their future success.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- Contributing Authors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Contexts and Health Care
- Chapter 2 Leadership and Advocacy
- Chapter 3 Credentialing
- Chapter 4 Reimbursement
- Chapter 5 Marketing and Promoting
- Chapter 6 Documentation and Quality Improvement
- Chapter 7 Supervision
- Chapter 8 Fieldwork
- Chapter 9 Communication Skills: Health Literacy
- Chapter 10 Ethics
- Chapter 11 The Importance of Scholarship and Scholarly Practice for the OTA
- Financial Disclosures
- Index