A Patient Presents to an Outpatient Occupational Therapy Clinic

A patient presents to an outpatient occupational therapy clinic. The client has limited resources and has requested to limit his visits to four, during which time family training, durable medical equipment provision and training, and fall prevention techniques would have to be covered. Upon meeting these goals, a discharge summary is required. As a manager completing staffing, how would you properly utilize the functions of the OT and OTA?

A) The OTA cannot support any of the listed interventions and should not be staffed to cover this patient. The OT can ask for support for completing portions of the evaluation, but from a staffing standpoint this would not make sense.
B) The OTA can complete family training, durable medical equipment prescription, and fall prevention training, and complete the discharge summary. The OT only needs to be staffed for the first session to complete the initial evaluation.
C) The OT must see the client for the initial evaluation and for the discharge summary; however, the OTA's scope of practice covers interventions, family training, and durable medical equipment recommendations and training on its use.
D) The OT must provide ongoing supervision for all interactions between the OTA and the patient in order to complete the discharge summary; therefore, both providers should be staffed for all four of the sessions.