West Campus Allied Health 159
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TUESDAYS and WEDNESDAYS 11:30-12:30, any other day by request. Options include in person, virtual, email and office phone(806-354-6079)
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OTHA-1249-001 Occupational Performance of Adulthood
Prerequisite: OTHA 1415
Occupational performance of adults. Includes frames of reference, evaluation tools and techniques, and intervention strategies.
Student ResourcesStudent Resources Website
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.
(2 sem hrs; 1 lec, 4 lab)
On Campus Course
Lifespan Development: A Chronological Approach, 4th edition, Kraynok, Seifert, Hoffnung & Hoffnung
Selected readings from AJOT (membership required)
Selected readings as discovered by student or assigned by faculty
Selected readings as provided byfaculty through various formats (directed to sites, Blackboard, email)
Additional texts previously purchased including Early, Reed's, Jacob’s/Simon, Introduction to OT, The OTA's Guide to Documentation:Writing SOAP note and Framework
Class assignment materials for presentations, projects, observations
AOTA membership to access articles, resources
Computer with internet capability IN CLASS as well as out of class and print capability
Professional dress, travel and supplies for fieldwork
At the end of the course, the Amarillo College OTA student will be able to
Amarillo College OTA program objectives:
1. Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of adult development and age-related changes including physical, cognitive, and developmental that occur from early adulthood (21 years) to the end of middle adulthood (64).
2. Be knowledgeable of the importance of emotional and social relationships in regards to physical and mental health in adulthood.
3. Understand the importance of health & wellness, prevention and quality of life and the connection to valued occupations in adulthood.
5. Analyze the connection between occupational performance and the Framework as related to adulthood areas of occupation.
6. Participate in the OT process as applied to adults including screening, assessment, intervention, reassessment, and discharge planning.
7. Discuss the importance of balancing areas of occupation to promote a healthy adult lifestyle.
8. Be knowledgeable of frames of references, assessments and intervention strategies to promote engagement in adult occupations.
9. Describe the use of compensatory strategies as an intervention for adaptation to age-related challenges.
ACOTE standards addressed in this course
B.1.1. Demonstrate knowledge of...Human development throughout the lifespan (adults).
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.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.3.2. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors.
B.3.3. Explain to consumers, ...colleagues, ... and the general public the distinct nature of occupation and the evidence that occupation supports performance, participation, health, and well-being.
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.3.6. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to implement the intervention plan.
B.4.1. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
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.4.4.Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and nonstandardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.
B.4.6. Under the direction of an occupational therapist, collect, organize, and report on data for evaluation of client outcomes
B.4.9. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
B.4.10. Provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training and advocacy.
B.4.18. Assess, grade, and modify the way persons, groups, and populations perform occupations and activities by adapting processes, modifying environments, and applying ergonomic principles to reflect the changing needs of the client, sociocultural context, and technological advances.
B.4.21. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching– learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches: · To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations. · To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience.
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.
B.6.2.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.
B.6.3. Demonstrate the skills to understand a scholarly report.
B.7.3. Promote occupational therapy by educating other professionals, service providers, consumers, ... and the public.
Connection with and consistency with the curriculum design:
Adulthood moves the student from a familiar and earlier period of life(childhood) right into the present for 99% of enrolled OTA students. This is in keeping with the concept of general to specific and familiar toward unfamiliar as this course is followed in content and sequence by elders in the following semester.This course has Level I psychosocial fieldwork imbedded at the end of the course for a one week full time clinical experience.
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
The final course grade will be computed as follows:
Exams (equally weighted) 20%
Professional development 10%
Portfolio (assignments in-class, out-of-class) 20%
Fieldwork 20%
Practicals (equally weighted) 15%
Final Examination 15%
TOTAL 100%
Major Exams = 20%
Exams will be announced in advance (usually one (1) week notice). Exams will be administered during class time in a location to be determined by the faculty member. Typical locations include the Allied Health classroom, additional Allied Health rooms, the testing center and Building A. Exams will be 100+ questions with a 2 hour time limit. The student will utilize Respondus LockDown Browser for testing and may be monitored, proctored, or recorded during testing. Exams are equally weighted in this course.
Professional Development = 10%
This portion of the grade is based on prompt and full attendance of class time. The learner begins the semester with 100 points in this category worth 10% of the course grade. See the attendance section for details of how this grade is created.
Portfolio assignments = 20%
A time limit will be given or negotiated that is reasonable for completion for in class and out of class assignments. A learner will not be allowed to continue past the time limit as announced on any single assignment. Portfolio assignments vary in complexity and design. Each learner is expected to complete the assignment independently. Each learner in a group is expected to contribute. Classmates may contribute the grading process when group work is assigned. For this course, SOAP notes, interviews, occupational profiles and quizzes plus other assignments the faculty make might be included in this category.
Fieldwork = 20%
If a student does not pass the fieldwork component of the course, the student fails the entire course, must repeat the class for credit and can not move forward in the program. Fieldwork takes place the week PRIOR to finals. The student is expected to attend full time the days assigned. For this course, that is usually Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Practicals = 15%
Practicals are a method of assessing student skills and involves hands on techniques. Practicals will require the student to role play being a patient/client as well as being an OT practitioner who assess a fellow student as patient/client. If available, persons other than classmates may act in the role of patient/client.
Final Exam = 20%
The final examination will be comprehensive to evaluate the effectiveness of the entire course and the knowledge gained. If a learner fails to take the final exam, a 0 (Zero) will be recorded for the final and an "F" will be recorded for the course grade.
The following grade scale applies throughout this course:
A = 92.5 - 100
B = 83.5 - 92.4
C = 74.5 - 83.4
F = 74.4 and below
GRADES ARE NOT ROUNDED UP. A 74.4 WILL NOT BE ROUNDED UP TO A 74.5. LIKEWISE, NO OTHER GRADE POINTS WILL BE ROUNDED UPTO THE NEXT HIGHER LETTER GRADE.
Amarillo College endorses attendance as a key to success. Attendance is required for successful completion of the Occupational Therapy Assistant program.
For each lecture or lab meeting of the course, the faculty will open attendance in the AC system/engagement portal. The student is responsible for indicating their attendance in the 10 minutes PRIOR to the start of class.
Full attendance of class time is expected.
A student is tardy if they have not indicated their presence in person and in the student engagement portal by the published start time of class. If arriving between 0-29 minutes after the start or class or leaving 1-29 minutes before the end of class, the student is tardy. A 2 point deduction will be made from the learner's professional development grade for each occurrence.
A learner will be counted as absent if the student is out of class more than 30 minutes of a class at any point across the class meeting 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.
The learner must talk to the faculty at the end of class in the course when they are out of class for more than 30 minutes. If the learner is out of class at the end of the class meeting, the learner is responsible to talk to the faculty member at the next day prior to classes starting OR at the START of the next class meeting to verify the points deducted.
Topical calendar subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
Week 1: MMT introduction
Week 2: MMT shoulder, elbow, forearm
Week 3: MMT shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist; Personal assessments: wellness wheel, 16 Personalities +, ATLAS
week 4: MMT shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist
week 5: MMT fingers, thumb
Week 6: MMT fingers, thumb
Week 7: MMT, note writing, EBP interventions for Health and Wellness
Week 8: MMT, Early adulthood Health and Wellness, interview questions
SPRING BREAK
Week 9: Early Adulthood interviews, goals, creativity, Framework application
Week 10: Early Adulthood work, culture
Week 11: Later Adulthood: Physical and cognitive development
Week 12: Later Adulthood: Psychosocial development, leisure, interviews
Week 13:OT Process: assessments, occupational profile, FOR, goals, intervention planning
Week 14:OT Process: assessments, occupational profile, FOR, goals, intervention planning
Week 15:FULL TIME FIELDWORK AND DEBRIEFING SESSIONS – can include weekends and evenings
Week 16: Final
This is a tentative plan of topics to be learned in this course. For the benefit of learning and teaching, faculty reserves the right to alter the plan.
Assignments will be given with 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.
Assignments 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. The student may contact the instructor in person or by text. It is the responsibility of the student to obtain handouts from a class mate. The instructor will not hold materials for the absent student.
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 point grade allowed on a make up exam is 95.
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