Management and Administration for the OTA: Leadership and Application Skills

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—the potential impact of policy issues as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy
• Leadership and Advocacy—two important roles that OTAs need to assume to be agents of change
• Credentialing—introduces the national requirements for credentialing and for licensure, certification or registration under state laws
• Reimbursement—the various reimbursement systems requirements that affect the practice of occupational therapy
• Marketing and Promoting—The 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—to ensure the OTA provides the highest quality of occupational therapy services
• Supervision—to understand the important relationship between the OTA, the OT, and nonprofessional personnel
• Fieldwork—to understand the role, criteria, and components of the OTA in fieldwork education
• Communication Skills—define 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—explore 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—assists 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