AOTA's Recommended Content for a Student Fieldwork Manual

Recommended Content for a Student Fieldwork Manual

1. Orientation Outline
2. Assignments
3. Safety Procedures/Codes
4. Behavioral Objectives
5. Week-by-Week Schedule of Responsibilities
6. Patient Confidentiality Information (Patient Rights)
7. Guidelines for Documentation: 

• Completed samples of all forms
• Acceptable medical abbreviations
• Discharge plan
• Billing
• Dictation Directions, if applicable

8. The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process
9. Additional information that can gradually be added to the student manual
10. Organizational Chart of the Fieldwork Setting
11. History of the Fieldwork Setting
12. Department Information

• Policy and procedures
• Mission statement
• Organizational chart
• Essential job functions
• Dress code

13. Regularly Scheduled Meetings:

• Dates of meetings
• Purpose of meeting

14. Special Client Related Groups\Programs

• Purpose
• Referral system
• Operation
• Transport 

15. Patient Confidentiality Information (Patient Rights) 

16. Guidelines for Documentation 

17. Responsibilities of:

• Fieldwork educator Student
• Fieldwork coordinator (if position exists) 

18. Performance Evaluation 

19. Procedure and guidelines used in the evaluation of

• Student
• Fieldwork Educator
• Fieldwork Experience

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