Profession Development & Competency

Professional development is important in any career field, and especially in occupational therapy.  It’s important to maintain professional development at all times to represent our profession in a positive light. It’s smart to keep up with all documents in two different forms just in case one or the other gets destroyed or lost.  This way, if you get audited, you will be able to get through the process quickly and effectively if all the documents are organized. I also think it’s a great idea to keep clinical pearls and quotes in a professional development portfolio. That way, it’s easy to keep up with all of the great insight and tips that a practitioner learns along the way.

Professional development goes hand-in-hand with competency. We must have good professional development to be competent OT’s. Competency includes keeping up with yearly professional development units and continuing education units. Competency also includes documenting our services in a holistic and accurate way. Documentation essentially proves our worth as occupational therapists so it’s imperative that we are competent in documentation.