Occupational Therapy Skills

Information

Proficiency Scale

1 = No Experience
2 = Need Training
3 = Able to perform with supervision
4 = Able to perform independently

Assessment Section

Work Setting

  • ✔ General Acute Care *
  • ✔ Adult/Adult ICU *
  • ✔ Pediatrics/PICU *
  • ✔ Children's Hospital *
  • ✔ Hand Therapy *
  • ✔ Home Health Care *
  • ✔ Outpatient Neuro *
  • ✔ Outpatient Ortho *
  • ✔ Psychiatric Hospital *
  • ✔ Rehabilitation Hospital/Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit *
  • ✔ Skilled Care Facility *
  • ✔ School Setting *
  • ✔ Early Intervention *
  • ✔ Subacute *

Orthopedics

  • ✔ Hand Injury *
  • ✔ Total Joint Replacement/Upper Extremities *
  • ✔ Lower Back/Spinal Surgeries *
  • ✔ Arthritis Programs *
  • ✔ Soft Tissue Injuries *
  • ✔ Knee Injuries & Total Knee Replacement *
  • ✔ Hip Fractures & Total Hip Replacement *
  • ✔ Mobilization Techniques *
  • ✔ Prosthetics/Amputations *

Neurologic

  • ✔ Alzheimer's/Dementia *
  • ✔ Degenerative Diseases of the CNS *
  • ✔ Multiple Sclerosis *
  • ✔ Parkinson's Disease *
  • ✔ Spinal Cord Injury *
  • ✔ Adaptive Equipment *
  • ✔ Neurodevelopmental Testing (NDT) *
  • ✔ Wheelchair Evaluation *
  • ✔ Stroke Acute *
  • ✔ Stroke Rehabilitation *
  • ✔ Functional Splinting *
  • ✔ Traumatic Brain Injury *

Pediatric Assessments

  • ✔ Neurodevelopmental Testing *
  • ✔ Developmental Screening *
  • ✔ Sensory-Motor Testing *
  • ✔ Visual Perceptual Testing *
  • ✔ Feeding/Swallowing/Oral Motor *
  • ✔ Seating & Positioning Assessment (i.e. w/c) *

Other Assessments

  • ✔ Physical Capacity Evaluation *
  • ✔ Home Assessments/Home Accessibility *
  • ✔ Activities of Daily Living *
  • ✔ Driving Evaluation *
  • ✔ Cognitive/Perception *

Treatment Approaches

  • ✔ ADL *
  • ✔ Cognitive Retraining *
  • ✔ Community Re-Entry *
  • ✔ Energy Conservation/Work Simplification Techniques *
  • ✔ Functional Transfer Training *
  • ✔ Home Safety *
  • ✔ Lymphedema Management *
  • ✔ Orthotics/Prosthetics Training *

Treatment Approaches - cont

  • ✔ Patient, Family & Staff Training *
  • ✔ PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) *
  • ✔ SI (Sensory Integration) *
  • ✔ Therapeutic Exercises/Activities *
  • ✔ Work Hardening *
  • ✔ Neurodevelopmental Testing (NDT) *
  • ✔ Incontinence Management *

Prosthetics/Orthotics

  • ✔ UE Prosthetics *
  • ✔ Static Splints *
  • ✔ Dynamic Splints *
  • ✔ Serial Casting *

Other

  • ✔ Burn Management *
  • ✔ Cardiac Rehabilitation *
  • ✔ Cognitive Retraining *
  • ✔ Computer Skills *
  • ✔ Geriatrics *
  • ✔ Group Dynamics *
  • ✔ IEP Skills *

Other - cont.

  • ✔ Inservice Education *
  • ✔ Job Task Analysis *
  • ✔ Therapeutic Media *
  • ✔ Knowledge of Payment Sources *
  • ✔ Medicare *
  • ✔ Medicaid *
  • ✔ MDS *

Age Specific Competencies

  • ✔ Infant (Birth to 1 Year) *
  • ✔ Toddler (Ages 1-3 Years) *
  • ✔ Preschooler (Ages 3-5 Years) *
  • ✔ Childhood (Ages 6-12 Years) *
  • ✔ Adolescents (Ages 12-21 Years) *
  • ✔ Young Adults (Ages 21-39 Years) *
  • ✔ Adults (Ages 40-64 Years) *
  • ✔ Older Adults (Ages 65-79 Years) *
  • ✔ Elderly (Ages 80+ Years) *