356 Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences—Department of Occupational Therapy Overview Occupational therapists provide services to enhance participation and function in daily occupations, including self care, work, and leisure. Occupational therapists frequently work with individuals when performance has been interrupted or jeopardized by disease, injury, disability, life stress, or other factors. Therapy consists of clients’ planned involvement in occupation—purposeful and meaningful activities—that positively influences their life adaptation. This involvement in occupation may be facilitated by supportive training, specialized equipment, environmental modification and/or problem-solving to accomplish life tasks. The therapeutic process is founded upon the belief that individuals are the principal agents of their own adaptation, and through active involvement in occupation, can have a significant impact on their health status, and well-being. The occupational therapist must be an expert in the knowledge of occupation, its role in health and adaptation, and its use in therapy. Occupational therapy practice requires the therapist to exercise increasingly complex, autonomous decision-making and problem-solving skills in multifactorial situations. The therapist must, therefore, be a critical thinker, capable of evaluating and synthesizing information from a variety of sources about a wide range of phenomena. Finally, therapists should be reflective practitioners able to evaluate their own clinical reasoning. NSU’s Department of Occupational Therapy offers entrylevel and postprofessional degrees. The accredited Master of Occupational Therapy (M.O.T.) degree has been replaced with an entry-level Doctor of Occupational Therapy (O.T.D.) that has been granted candidacy status by the American Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), located at 7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 510E, Bethesda, MD 20814. ACOTE’s telephone number, care of AOTA, is (301) 652-AOTA. The department also continues to offer a full-time, blended, entrylevel O.T.D. program with online and campus-based, weekend sessions at the Tampa Bay Regional Campus. Additionally, the department offers an advanced practice Doctor of Occupational Therapy (Dr.O.T.) degree, a research Doctor of Philosophy in Occupational Therapy (Ph.D.) degree, and a Dual-Degree Doctor of Occupational Therapy (Dr.O.T.)/Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program. Background Check The academic discipline of occupational therapy draws upon and integrates a wide range of interdisciplinary topics. Theories that illuminate the understanding of occupation in human life, the role of occupation in health and adaptation, and the art and science of using activities as therapeutic agents create the foundation for the discipline. As part of the regular curriculum, O.T.D. students are placed in fieldwork sites that require all students to be fingerprinted and subjected to a background check in accordance with regulations of the Child Care, Licensing and Enforcement Section, Bureau of Children’s Services and Broward and Hillsborough Counties, Florida. Additionally, some placement facilities may require criminal background checks and/or drug testing. Students may, under supervision, provide occupational therapy services to patients seen in the university clinics as part of the regular course of study. A felony conviction may affect a graduate’s ability to sit for the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc. (NBCOT) certification examination or attain state licensure. Computer Requirements PC/Laptop Operating system: 64-bit Windows 10 (Must be genuine U.S.- English versions of Windows operating systems) Processor: Intel i5 processor or above RAM: 8 GB or higher Hard disk space: 256GB solid state drive (SSD) or higher Graphics card: Integrated graphics card or NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 or dedicated video graphics card with 4 GB video memory or higher Display: 1280x1024 or higher MacBook/iMac Operating system: Mac OS X Monterey or higher (Must be genuine versions of Mac operating systems) Processor: Intel i5 processor or above or M1 RAM: 8 GB or higher Hard disk space: 256 GB solid state drive (SSD) or higher Graphics card: Intel Iris Plus or higher, or Apple M1 integrated graphics Display: 1280x1024 or higher Department of Occupational Therapy
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