Free Self Paced Course

More Than “Just” an OTA: Recognizing Your Value and Contribution to the Occupational Therapy Profession

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Self Paced

More Than “Just” an OTA: Recognizing Your Value and Contribution to the Occupational Therapy Profession

Self-Paced, Video Course
1 Contact Hour, 0.1 CEUs
FREE

Educational level: Introductory 

Category 2: Professional Issues

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Maybe you love your job as an OTA, but are questioning how to make an impact in your OT department, facility, or even the OT profession.

Or you’d like to engage in more leadership but are not really sure where to start or if you are qualified to be a leader.

You could also be an OT wondering how to support and advocate better for OTAs in your setting or facility.

This course is designed to empower those who may feel limited by the label of being "just" an OTA, helping them recognize their significance and impact. Through engaging content and activities, participants will start to see the positive difference they are already making. The course also offers practical guidance on navigating leadership and advocacy in a manner that is both manageable and authentic to each individual.

Target Audience: Occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, occupational therapy students

This occupational therapy continuing education course uses the following instructional methods: visual aides (ie slides), discussion board, guided note taking, and learning, and practice opportunities.
Content disclosure: This course does not exclusively focus on any specific product or service.

Presented by:
Niccole Rowe, BA, COTA/L
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Benefits of this course
  • Describe two actions occupational therapy assistants can use to enhance the occupational therapy profession and the OT process
  • Explain 2 techniques and/or strategies that can be used to engage in leadership and advocacy related occupational therapy assistants 

What OTs and OTAs are saying about this course

I loved participating in this course to better empower OTA's in our field. Niccole has a vast variety of experience as an OTA in many areas from teaching, to direct patient care, and advocacy, it is a pleasure to learn from her. 

AW, OTA Course Participant 

Makes you realize your worth as an OTA

TD, OTA Course Participant 

I loved that the subject was openly discussed about how OTs in general, myself included, don’t alway rise to the occasion to educate staff and patients of our really cool perspective of treatment. The “just” discussion resonated with me. Good to talk about it.

OT Course Participant
Instructor bioS
Niccole Rowe, BA, COTA/L
Aspire OT Founding Partner

Niccole Rowe, BA, COTA/L has 12 years of experience as an occupational therapy assistant in various settings such as acute care, long term acute care, skilled nursing, academia, and outpatient chronic pain treatment. As part of her current role as one of the founding partners of Aspire OT, Niccole works to support other OT practitioners through exceptional continuing education. Niccole has been published in a textbook chapter and in OT Practice including co-authoring 2 continuing education articles. Niccole was also one of the lead authors for AOTA’s official document “Occupational Therapy’s Role in Treating Pain”. She was honored as the co-recipient of the American Occupational Therapy Association’s 2018 Terry Brittell OTA/OT Partnership Award. She has also been recognized for her leadership in occupational therapy as she was chosen for the 2017 cohort of AOTA’s Emerging Leaders Development Program and received the AOTA Gary Kielhofner Emerging Leader Award in 2020. She holds a BA in Communication.

DISCLOSURES
Financial: Niccole is compensated as a founding partner of Aspire OT.
Non Financial:  Niccole serves as Founding Partners of Aspire OT, which has partnerships and affiliations as noted on the Partner and Affiliation sections of the Aspire OT website.

Course Outline

Completion Requirements
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In order to receive the certificate of completion, participants must meet ALL of the following criteria:
  • Payment of the course in full
  • View course videos for full duration
  • Pass the course exam with a score of 70% or greater
  • Complete the Post Course Evaluation
Please note that no credit or certificate will be issued unless all criteria is met.  Partial credit will not be issued.  
cancellation policy
Live Courses and Webinars
Learner cancellations: In the event that the learner requests to cancel or is unable to attend a course, a refund for the total paid for the course will be granted if Aspire OT is notified via email at info@aspireot.us within 10 business days prior to date of the scheduled course, minus a non-refundable registration fee of 25% of registration price.  If the learner provides notification of cancellation less then 10 business days prior to the scheduled course, the learner will be offered the opportunity to attend the same webinar on an alternate date or enrollment in the recorded on-demand version of that webinar, instead of a refund.  

No refunds will be issued after a course has been attended for more than 30 minutes.  Partial credit will not be issued.  

Provider cancellations: In the event of inclement weather or other event resulting in the inability for a live course to be provided within the scheduled time, learners will be offered an alternate date or a full refund for registration paid.
On-Demand web Courses 
Web courses will remain available to learners for 1 year. No refunds will be available for web courses that have been attended or viewed for greater than 30 minutes. In the event of a refund, the learner will be unenrolled in the course immediately upon issuance of a refund. No refunds will be issued for any course in which a certificate has been issued.  
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Aspire OT is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development.
Course approval ID# 09641
This Blended-Hybrid course is offered at 0.1 CEUs (Introductory level, Professional Issues)
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
This course is

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Aspire OT reports directly to CE Broker for those states that require it: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee.

  • CE Broker Tracking Number: 20-1293578
  • Individuals must complete the required steps to set up their Aspire OT account. You can view those steps here. 
  • Course completions are reported within 48 hours.
  • Refer to our FAQ for more information.
  • Please note for Tennessee license reporting: this is considered an online course where the credit is .5 for 1 hour spent learning. Our reporting to CE Broker reflects this conversion rate.

Course Author

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