Students who graduate from the Notre Dame of Maryland Occupational Therapy Program will be able to:
- Demonstrate foundational knowledge about established and evolving biopsychosocial and medical sciences and their applications to individuals’ and populations' care.
- Demonstrate an investigative and analytic thinking approach to clinical situations
- Accurately formulate and develop client-centered treatment plans.
- Obtain an accurate occupation-based history and perform a comprehensive occupational therapy assessment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how practice decisions regarding resource allocation impact health organizations’ finances, while safeguarding the practice of cost-effective health care that does not compromise the quality of care.
- Provide practical, equitable, understandable, and respectful quality care and services responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs, and practices, preferred languages, health literacy, and other communication needs, adhering to the culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) standards.
- Understands, accesses, uses and evaluates the effectiveness of resource providers and systems to extend equitable occupational therapy services.
- Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the more extensive healthcare system to provide patient care that balances quality and cost while maintaining the person's sense of agency
- Develop an interdisciplinary advocacy plan for effective health policy changes to facilitate health and social equity.
- Contribute to creating, disseminating, applying, and translating new healthcare knowledge and practices in an interprofessional team