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OTHA-2301-001 Pathophysiology in Occupational Therapy
Prerequisite: OTHA 1241
Pathology and general health management of diseases and injuries across the lifespan encountered in occupational therapy treatment settings. Includes etiology, symptoms, and the client's physical and psychological reactions to disease and injury.
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Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:
Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:
Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me
You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.
(3 sem hrs; 2 lec, 2 lab)
On Campus Course
PRIMARY TEXT:
Physical Dysfunction Practice Skills for the OTA, Patnaude, 4th edition
SECONDARY TEXTS:
Introduction to Occupational Therapy, 5th edition, O'Brien
Quick Reference for OT, Jacobs & Simon, 7th edition
Quick Reference TO Occupational Therapy, 3rd edition Reed
Adult Physical Conditions : Intervention Strategies for Occupational Therapy Assistants, Mahle & Ward
The OTA’s Guide to Documentation: Writing SOAP Notes, 4th edition Morreale & Borcherding
Online items accessed with AOTA membership and through Internet access
AOTA membership in order to access practice articles and current literature
Personal lap top computer and Internet access IN CLASS, printer, print cartridges
Paper, pens, markers
Presentation materials as student desires
Additional materials may be needed as assignments vary with each cohort of students
At the end of the course, the Amarillo College OTA learner will be able to create in their mind the picture of an individual who might be affected by selected diagnoses commonly treated by the OTA.
Amarillo College OTA program objectives:
Using the course textbooks, personal notes, discussions in class, handouts, and other materials and projects, the learner shall accomplish each of the following course outcomes as evaluated by the course instructor:
1. Define and dramatize terminology related to residual deficits of selected diseases, injuries and illnesses commonly treated in occupational therapy.
2. Differentiate pathologies, etiologies, and general medical treatment as well as occupational therapy treatment of diseases, injuries, and other disabilities in a variety of settings.
3. Apply the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework to selected diseases, injuries and illnesses commonly treated in occupational therapy.
4. Discover and relate OT evidence based practice for selected diseases, injuries and illnesses commonly treated in occupational therapy to a variety of learning activities which may include case studies, class discussions, fieldwork experience or other activities.
ACOTE standards addressed in the course:
B.1.3.Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions. This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
B.2.1. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
B.3.4.Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations.
B.3.5.Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance.
B.4.2.Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
B.4.3. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
B.4.26. Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to refer to specialists both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies.
B.4.27. Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to design community and primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups, and populations.
B.6.1. Locate and demonstrate understanding of professional literature, including the quality of the source of information, to make evidence-based practice decisions in collaboration with the occupational therapist. Explain how scholarly activities and literature contribute to the development of the profession.
B.6.3. Demonstrate the skills to understand a scholarly report.
Consistency with and connection to curriculum:
The curriculum design of the OTA program incorporates both developmental and adult education models of learning. In planning and implementing the curriculum, courses progress from simple to complex, general to specific, limited time observing to full time practicing. The program focuses on adult education concepts of self-directed learning, an increasing responsibility for one’s own learning, as well as establishing one’s own learning goals and objectives. The curriculum design incorporates the philosophy of the profession in that humans are active beings and so students enrolled in OTA courses are actively learning not passively listening to lecture or viewing power point presentations. OTA students create materials for class presentation from which they learn.
Continuing across the semesters, concepts learned in Human Structure and Function are taught before Occupational Performance in Adulthood (second semester), Pathophysiology in OT(second semester), Therapeutic Interventions II (third semester), and all clinical(first, second and third semesters) or fieldwork courses (fifth semester). The OT faculty believe that knowledge of human structures and their functions is a basic skill that the student must have for success in even at the earliest level of participation. When exploring the disease processes commonly encountered in OTA practice in the Pathophysiology in OT course, the student will know the structures from A & P courses and the functions from Human Structures and Function OTHA course work.
In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .
If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".
1. Learners will not use electronic devices in the classroom for personal reasons during active learning time. All such devices must be placed on silent mode and secured per the instructions of the faculty. Both the faculty and the students will keep with devices face down and on silent in order to not interrupt classroom activities. Please talk with the faculty instructor in advance of class starting if there is a personal need to access your phone during class. Students will use breaks to access their phone for personal use.
2. Learners will not use computers in the classroom for personal reasons during active learning time.Computers will be used for in class activities. Computers may be used for note taking and on occasion may be used for testing. The faculty reserve the right to ask students to close their laptops or electronic devices at any time and expect students will follow the request.
3. ADL lab facilities (bathroom, bedroom, laundry room, living area, kitchen) are to be used for learning activities only at the direction of the faculty instructor.
4. When asked, the student will attend class in professional dress including cohort colored pant for men and women or skirt for women, program shirt, shirt able to be tucked into pants at waist upon request, and closed toe tennis shoe or dress shoe heel not exceeding 1 inch with socks or hosiery to compliment pant/skirt. The purchased AC allied health name badge is to be worn on the right ride of the program shirt. Jewelry and cologne are to be kept to a minimum. No tattoos which are illegal substance related, gang related, vulgar/obscene/offensive or questionable are allowed to be seen or show. If professional dress is not followed, student will not be allowed on the outing and an absence will be recorded for that class meeting. Makeup of that outing will not be allowed.
5. Virtual attendance is not allowed. This course is not listed as a hybrid or online course and will not be taught online nor will students be able to attend on line.
6. Courtesy and respect are expected between the learner and faculty. Learners are expected to be attentive to faculty and guests and oral presentations of other learners. Learners are to extend highest respect to patients/clients when making off campus contact. Lack of regard to this expectation at any time by any single learner or group of learners may result in immediate dismissal of the learner/s from the situation by the instructor, guest lecturer, or patient/client. An absence will be recorded for that class meeting.
ACADEMIC CIVILITY & INTEGRITY
The faculty member teaching this course seeks to have a civil and high integrity learning environment for the benefit of all learners, guests and instructors. Any act of incivility or lack of academic integrity may result in a number of actions including being asked to leave the classroom up to dismissal from the college.
Civility includes:
1. Respect. Respect is demonstrated in verbal and non-verbal ways. Be sure your voice conveys respect as well as all body language. Respect is expected between faculty, between faculty and learners and between learners.
2. Advocate for yourself. Speak up when you have a question or don't understand something. Please ask faculty rather than other students. If you have a question, perhaps others in the room have the same question. Let the faculty answer your questions rather than getting wrong information from a classmate.
3. Make the best use of your class time. You're paying for it! Arrive on time. Wait to pack up until faculty dismisses class. Be prepared for class by bringing ALL MATERIALS and completed assignments in the format they were asked for. Take your turn in discussions and don't interrupt. Let others answer ahead of you who might be shy or quiet about answering. You don't always have to be the first one to answer. Listen carefully to other learners questions so you don't repeat what has already been asked. This is another reason to limit learner to learner conversation - the number one reason learner questions are repeated is due to side conversations. However, your classmates will view it as not paying attention. Speaking of paying attention...
4. Stay awake and attentive in class. Take a 10 minute power nap during breaks if needed. Stand up in the LAB doorway or at the back of the classroom without distracting others. Stay alert and ready to participate if you are standing. A tired student can be confused with one who is bored or apathetic. It's better to let faculty know you had a rough night than to look like you're not paying attention in class or are disinterested. Sleeping in class may result in being asked to leave class which counts as an absence and reduces your grade in the Professional Development category.
5. Have courage. When you have a concern, speak up. If it's conflict with a classmate, talk to that classmate NOT others in the cohort. When it's an issue with a faculty member/instructor, take the concern to the faculty member involved NOT other instructors.
If AFTER talking with either a classmate or an instructor you feel the issue is not resolved, please visit with the program director. In the event the program director does not resolve your issue, the program director will direct to concern to the Dean of Health Sciences, a resolution committee may be appointed, the VPAA office might become involved as well as the President of AC. This is the sequence or order of resolution an AC learner is expected to follow. If it is not followed, the person who you have contacted will refer you to the person you should be engaging with.
6. The instructor is open to amending this syllabus to include additional suggestions regarding civility using a collective learner contract process.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
An act of ACADEMIC DISHONESTY includes ANY of the following and can result in a number of actions including being asked to leave the classroom up to dismissal from the college.
1. Cheating
2. Bribery
3. Misrepresentation: Misrepresentation is any act or omission that is intended to deceive a faculty member for academic advantage. Misrepresentation includes lying to a faculty member in an attempt to increase your grade, or lying to faculty when confronted with allegations of academic dishonesty.(As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
4. Conspiracy: Conspiracy means working together with one or more persons to commit or attempt to commit academic dishonesty. (As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
5. Fabrication/Lying: Fabrication is the use of invented or misrepresentative information. Fabrication most often occurs in the sciences, when students create or alter experimental data. Listing a source in your works cited that you did not actually use in your research is also fabrication.(As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
6. Collusion: Collusion is the act of two or more students working together on an individual assignment.(As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452). “Collusion” shall be defined as the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements. ( As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
7. Duplicate Submission: A duplicate submission means a student submits the same paper for two different classes. If a student submits the same paper for two different classes within the same semester, the student must have the permission of both faculty. If a student submits the same paper for two different classes in different semesters, the student must have the permission of their current faculty members. ( As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
8. Academic Misconduct: Academic misconduct is the violation of college policies by tampering with grades or by obtaining and/or distributing any part of a test or assignment. For example:
9. Improper online ... and blended course use includes: 1. Accepting or providing outside help on online assignments or tests. 2.Obtaining test materials or questions before the test is administered. ( As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
10. Disruptive behavior: Disruptive behavior is any behavior that interferes with the teaching/learning process. Disruptive behavior includes:
1.Disrespecting faculty or another student, in class or online.
2.Talking, texting, or viewing material unrelated to the course during class time.
3.Failing to silence your cell phone during class. (Definition and items 1-3 as found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
4. Obstruction or disruption of any authorized college operation or activity. Disorderly conduct shall include any verbal or physical abuse, intimidation, or the subjection of another person to inappropriate, abusive, threatening, or demeaning actions.
5. Failure to comply with a directive from a college administrator, faculty member, or Police Officer.
6. Possessing on any campus or college-related activity, any weapons that are prohibited by law.
7. Exhibiting behavior that gives reasonable cause to question, in the opinion of the college, whether the student is able to satisfactorily function in institutional programs or institutional activities in which the student is engaged.
8. Interference with teaching, research, administration, or the college’s subsidiary responsibilities through “disorderly conduct or disruptive behavior.”
9. Disorderly conduct which shall include any verbal or physical abuse, intimidation or the subjection of another person to inappropriate, abusive, threatening or demeaning actions on property owned or controlled by the college or at college-sponsored functions. Students who behave in a disorderly fashion may be required to leave the premises, withdraw from a club or organization, or withdraw from the college. (Items 4-19 as found at https://catalog.actx.edu/content.php?catoid=13&navoid=491#Student_Conduct_and_Responsibilities)
11. Plagiarism: "Plagiarism” shall be defined as the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work. (As found at as found at https://catalog.actx.edu/content.php?catoid=13&navoid=491#Student_Conduct_and_Responsibilities)
Examples include:
The following link can be helpful in helping you determine if you are committing plagiarism https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695453
Major Examinations equally weighted 40%
Professional Development 10%
Portfolio 30%
Final 20%
Final Grade 100%
Amarillo College endorses attendance as a key to success. Attendance is required for successful completion of the Occupational Therapy Assistant program.
Full attendance of class time is expected.
A student is tardy if they are not seated in the class room at the published start time of the course. A 2 point deduction is made from the professional development grade if the student is tardy.
A learner will be counted as absent if the student is out of class such as at the start, in the middle or at the end (arriving late, leaving early). A 4 point deduction will be made from the learner's professional development grade for each occurrence.
Topical calendar subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
Week 1 Monday = Brain attack/CVA
Week 2 Brain attack/CVA/stroke
Week 3 Brain attack/CVA/stroke
Week 4 Brain attack/CVA/stroke
Week 5 Brain attack/CVA/stroke
Week 6 TBI
Week 7 TBI
Week 8 TBI
Week 9 Spring Break
Week 10 TBI
Week 11 SCI
Week 12 SCI
Week 13 SCI
Week 14 SCI
Week 15 FIELDWORK full time off campus
Week 16 Final Exam
This is a tentative plan of topics to be learned in this course. For the benefit of learning and teaching, the instructor reserves the right to alter the week to week topical plan.
Learning activities will be assigned a due date/time. The learner will submit the assignment at the date/time as announced or the assignment WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED(any assignment EXCEPT a PRESENTATION). If written/created, non-presentation assignments are not handed in on time, the grade recorded will be a zero. This includes lack of submission of an assignment to Blackboard due to internet limitations and printed assignments due to printer limitations. Presentation assignments MAY be rescheduled for a grade as time allows.
Lab learning activities vary greatly in content and level of facilitation by the instructor. Assignments may or may not be made up at the discretion of the instructor in the event of a student being absent. It is the responsibility of the learner to contact the instructor within 24 hours of a missed class to obtain information about the class which was missed. Contact the instructor by email so that both parties will have record of the interaction. It is the responsibility of the student to get handouts from a class mate. The instructor will not hold materials for the absent student.
Assignments may or may not be be graded. It is the responsibility of the learner to complete all assignments regardless of a grade being assigned or not. It is at the discretion of the instructor to grade or not grade any assignment. An assignment which is not graded has as much learning value to the adult life long learner as does the assignment which is graded. Grading of assignments may or may not be announced in advance.
Major exams may not be made up in the event of a student being absent. The student will be eligible to sit for the major exam the last week of the semester also known as finals week. The maximum points available for a make up exam is 95.
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