Can the occupational therapy assistant write the discharge?
Only an OT or OTR has the authority to discharge patients from occupational therapy services. This is from 372.1 (f) Discharge. The OTA or COTA may collect the information for those patients he/she is working directly with and write it down. The OT or OTR must then carefully review the information, making whatever adjustments or addendums that are necessary, determining if goals were met or not, establishing any further needs of the patient in another continuum of care, and then signing off on the discharge. Simply signing the last treatment note is not sufficient, or a discharge. Q: I have had a director of Special Education ask me about OTs refusing to do sensory integration therapy in the schools. There are more and more demands for SI therapy in the schools, many times by parents, and the director wanted to know what position she should take with her OT. What do you suggest? Q: To me, if the OT does not feel she has the competence to safely serve children using a sensory integratio
