Occupational Therapy Assistant - Inpatient
Core
Administers clinical patient care and treatment plans under the direction of an occupational therapist in an inpatient rehabilitation setting.
Role type
Entry-level clinical occupational therapy assistant
Builds
Patient treatment plans and functional goals for inpatients
Domain
Healthcare / Rehabilitation Therapy
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Administering therapeutic treatments, maintaining treatment records, designing adaptive devices, instructing patients and families, scheduling daily assignments
Preferred skills
Continuing education, attending in-services
Technologies
Computers for data input and reporting
Responsibilities
Administers appropriate treatment as assigned by the occupational therapist, maintains treatment records including re-evaluations and discharge summaries, meets and modifies functional goals of patients, designs adaptive devices and suggests equipment adaptations, assists with students and volunteers, completes daily patient charge sheets, schedules and prioritizes daily work assignments