OT 7111 Professional Development in Occupational Therapy I

Resources for this course that guides students through first steps in developing attitudes and skills for competent and ethical occupational therapy practice.

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Health sciences research toolkit

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Finding information

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    Helpful tips on how to develop a literature search strategy.

  • Boolean operators: a cheat sheet
    Boolean logic (named after mathematician George Boole) is a system of logic to designed to yield optimal search results. The Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, help you construct a logical search. Boolean operators act on sets — groups of records containing a particular word or concept.

  • Literature Searching
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Evaluating information


Writing and publishing

eBooks on Professional Development & Ethics

Books On Professional Development & Ethics

Online Resources for Professionalism & Ethics

Professionalism

 

Ethics

  • AOTA 2020 Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics
    • The 2020 Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics (the Code) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is designed to reflect the dynamic nature of the occupational therapy profession, the evolving health care environment, and emerging technologies that can present potential ethical concerns in practice, research, education, and policy. AOTA members are committed to promoting inclusion, participation, safety, and well-being for all recipients of service in various stages of life, health, and illness and to empowering all beneficiaries of service to meet their occupational needs. Recipients of services may be persons, groups, families, organizations, communities, or populations (AOTA, 2020)
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Citation Management

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