AOTA Professional Development Tool (PDT)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN WORKSHEET (5)

Learning Plan
Structure your learning plan to indicate how you will achieve your identified learning goals. The completed plan should be included in
your portfolio. Type information directly into the spaces provided.

LEARNING GOAL
Related Standard
1. Increase evidenced-based
practice knowledge base
to implement into
treatment planning.
2. Incorporate theory and
FORs to support treatment
strategies.
3. Incorporate client's family
into assessment, as well as
treatment and d/c planning
to attain best outcomes.
4. Improve conciseness and
accuracy of
documentation to
highlight key features of
skilled intervention.
5. Improve the ability to
make and defend clinical
decisions based on ethical
reasoning.
STRATEGIES
What are the best ways
to achieve this goal?
Search for literature reviews
and research articles relevant to
setting, population, and
diagnosis.
Participate in discussions with
therapists about how FOR and
theory support treatment
strategies. Review FOR and
theory during client evaluation
and treatment planning to
ensure proper FOR
implementation.
Educate and train caregivers,
develop rapport with family
members.
Compare observations with
therapist, take notes during
session, obtain supervisor
feedback on documentation.
Review AOTA ethic literature,
discuss ethic principals with
therapists and other classmates,
obtain feedback and coaching
from supervisor when
supporting clinical decisions.
RESOURCES
What do I need to help
me achieve this?
Access to literature reviews
and journal articles through
AJOT, U of U library, and
others, as well as textbooks.
Access to FORs and theory,
through class material,
textbooks, and journal
articles.
Education materials,
conversations w/client and
family, the ability to problem
solve.
Practice, mentorship,
coaching, and supervisory
feedback.
Practice, self-study,
continuing education,
mentorship, coaching,
supervisory feedback
SUCCESS
TARGET DATE
INDICATORS
How will I know I When do I plan to
achieved it? achieve it?
Treatment plans and This goal may be repeated as
interventions are evidence- population, diagnoses, and
based for all clientele. settings vary.
Ongoing.
Treatment plans and
documentation are By the end of FW II.
supported with appropriate Ongoing.
FOR, theory, and postulates.
1 year after beginning
Increased caregiver career. Ongoing.
understanding and
confidence, decreased
readmission rates .
1 year after graduation.
Concise and insightful Ongoing.
documentation is provided
in a timely manner.
Confidently support practice By the end of FW II.
Ongoing.
during discussions while
implementing the code of
ethics.

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