ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS
ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT PROGRAM
Course Number & Title: OTA 2013 Fundamentals of Treatment
Credit Hours: 3 Semester Credit Hours (3 hrs/week x 15 weeks = 45 clock hrs)
PLACEMENT: Summer
FACULTY: TBA
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Using course readings, class discussion, modeling,
imitation, observation and participation the student will perform basic manual muscle
tests, perform range of motion assessments, conduct activity analysis, conduct analyses of
occupation based interventions, safely perform simulated transfers, learn and enact safe
body mechanics to daily life, and analyze occupational engagement in terms of the
AOTA Domain and Process Framework as well as the ICF. The student will understand
the importance of occupation in quality of life. Working with patients as individuals and
working with populations of people will be compared. How to professionally communicate
orally and in writing will also be covered as well as professional behaviors.
STUDENT LEARNER OUTCOMES: Upon completion of this course, the student
learner will have been given the opportunity to:
1. Perform an activity analysis.
2. Identify activity analysis with occupation.
3. Demonstrate proper body mechanics required in lifting, carrying, reaching and transferring
patients or heavy materials from bed to chair, chair to bed, and table to storage unit.
4. Demonstrate safe body mechanics in classroom demonstrations.
5. Perform manual muscle tests and range of motion tests.
6. Describe the importance of occupation for quality of life.
7. Describe and enact five occupation based interventions and the ICF.
8. Define the role of occupation in quality of life.
9. Contrast patient versus population based intervention.
10. Critique ineffective or unsafe transfer techniques.
11. Demonstrate beginning abilities to educate and train the client/family/significant
other to facilitate patients skills in performance areas, prevention, health maintenance,
quality of life and safety.
12. Demonstrate safety techniques to protect the student and the patient while lifting and
transferring.
TEACHING STRATEGIES:
Guided discussion, videotaped presentations, assigned and self-selected readings, oral and written
assignments, class presentations.
EVALUATION STRATEGIES:
(See grading criteria, grading rubrics, & assignments described on Blackboard Learn)
10% competency performance in activity analysis
10% competency in range of motion
10% competency in manual muscle testing
20% competency in safety procedures for transfers
20% essay based final examination
15% written paper on occupation based interventions
15% oral presentation on occupation based interventions
TEXTBOOKS REQUIRED :
Keough, J., Sain, S., Roller, C. (July 15, 2011). Kinesiology for the Occupational
Therapy Assistant: Essential Components of Movement and Function. Slack
Incorporated, Thorofare, NJ.
Sladyk, K., Ryan, S. Ryan's Occupational Therapy Assistant: Principles, Practice Issues,
and Techniques. 4th Edition (April 21, 2005). Slack Incorporated, Thorofare, NJ.
Merino, C., Latella, D. (2008). Occupational Therapy Interventions: Functions and
Occupations. Second Edition. Slack Incorporated, Thorofare, NJ.
Davis, L., Rose, M. (October 15, 2014). Occupational therapy student to clinician:
Making the transition. (1st edition) Slack Incorporated, Thorofare, NJ.
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTBOOKS (Optional):
American Occupational Therapy Association (2014). Occupational Therapy Practice
Framework: Domain and Process, (3rd Edition). American Occupational Therapy
Association, Bethesda, MD
World Health Organization Staff, International Classification of Functioning (ICF) (May
2001). World Health Organization.
American Psychological Association. (2012). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (6th ed.). (July 2009) Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.
COURSE POLICIES:
1. The College of Nursing and Health Professions values academic integrity. An Honor
Code is used within the College and all students are bound by this code. Information
regarding the consequences of cheating is listed in the University Student Handbook
and the department specific handbooks. Should an individual choose to participate in
academic dishonesty, plagiarism, or cheating, that individual will be held accountable.
2. Assignments should be submitted by the due date. Late Assignments will not be accepted
unless an exception is negotiated with the Instructor prior to the assignment due date.
3. Classes are mandatory and must be attended. Participation is required and evaluated.
4. ALL official communication, notices or announcements will be sent through the
student’s ASU EMAIL account ONLY. The student is accountable for checking this
account on a regular basis (daily or every other day) and is accountable for all official
communication. It is the student’s responsibility to keep the email account viable,
enabled to receive email transmissions and blackboard access on a daily basis.
Access BlackboardLearn: Course Documents/ Information at course website for
additional resources and guidelines. Also, see downloads available from Information
Technology Services (ITS) for the use of BlackboardLearn.
2015 CLASS SCHEDULE: OTA 2013 Fundamentals of Treatment
Fall 2015
Weeks
1-2
Introduction and orientation to the course
How to do an activity analysis and its relationship to
occupation
Week
3
Week
4
Week
5
Week
6-7
Body mechanics: Safe and Unsafe
Week
8-9
Quality of Life in terms of occupation and traditional
measurement
Week
10
Occupation based interventions as describe by OTPF and
ICF
Week 11
Patient based versus population based interventions
Week
12
Week
13
Week
14
Week
15
Family and systems education and communicate
Range of motion
Manual muscle testing
Competency assessment of range of motion and manual
muscle testing
Written paper on occupation based interventions due
Class oral presentation on occupation based interventions
FINAL
(written)