How do they match: Occupational Therapy Assistants

  • Acute Care OT Assistant
  • Acute Care Occupational Therapy Assistant
  • Occupational Therapy Technician

  • Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves.
  • Assemble, clean, or maintain equipment or materials for patient use.
  • Attend care plan meetings to review patient progress and update care plans.
  • Communicate and collaborate with other healthcare professionals involved with the care of a patient.
  • Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual or creative arts or games.
  • Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, or the care and use of adaptive equipment.
  • Monitor patients' performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement.
  • Observe and record patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior and maintain this information in client records.
  • Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior.
  • Select therapy activities to fit patients' needs and capabilities.
  • Teach patients how to deal constructively with their emotions.
  • Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area.

  • Assist patients with daily activities.
  • Communicate patient status to other health practitioners.
  • Confer with other professionals to plan patient care.
  • Develop patient therapy programs.
  • Encourage patients during therapeutic activities.
  • Implement therapeutic programs to improve patient functioning.
  • Make patient-assistive devices or device models.
  • Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
  • Move patients to or from treatment areas.
  • Schedule patient procedures or appointments.
  • Teach basic living or other adaptive skills to patients or caregivers.
  • Teach medical procedures or medical equipment use to patients.