How to make a manual for Level II fieldwork students at your facility.

AOTA recommends that the student manual includes the following:

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

Other helpful information you may want to include:

1. Department Information
• Policy and procedures
• Mission statement
• Organizational chart
• Essential job functions
• Dress code
2. Regularly Scheduled Meetings:
3. Special Client Related Groups\Programs
4. Patient Confidentiality Information (Patient Rights)
5. Guidelines for Documentation
6. Responsibilities of:
• Fieldwork educator
• Student
• Fieldwork coordinator (if position exists)
7. Performance Evaluation
8. Procedure and guidelines used in the evaluation of
• Student
• Fieldwork Educator
• Fieldwork Experience
  
  

Material for your student manual can be gathered from other sources within your facility (e.g., employee handbooks, Human Resources Department, etc.) 


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