Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XLV - Medical Professions › Subpart 3 - Practice › Chapter 49 - Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants › Subchapter B - Standards of Practice › Section XLV-4919 - Quality Assurance and Service Competency

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The occupational therapist shall
					 periodically and systematically review all aspects of individual occupational
					 therapy programs for effectiveness and efficiency.
B. Occupational therapists shall periodically
					 and systematically review the quality and appropriateness of total services
					 delivered, using predetermined criteria that reflect professional consensus and
					 recent development in research and theory.
C. Any occupational therapist supervising an
					 occupational therapy assistant must have performed and documented a service
					 competency on the occupational therapy assistant. The occupational therapist
					 must have previously evaluated and/or treated any client being seen by an
					 occupational therapy assistant he or she is supervising. In addition:
1. initial service competency. Following
					 acceptance of responsibility to supervise an occupational therapy assistant,
					 but prior to utilization of such assistant in the implementation of any client
					 program plan or other administration of occupational therapy to a client, the
					 supervising occupational therapist shall initially evaluate and document the
					 occupational therapy assistant's service competency to administer all
					 occupational therapy services which are to be performed under his or her
					 supervision and direction. The service competency is designed to document the
					 occupational therapy assistants skill set;
2. annual service competency. Following such
					 an initial evaluation the supervising occupational therapist shall thereafter
					 annually conduct and document a service competency to determine the
					 occupational therapy assistant's skill set;
3. documentation of service competency.
					 Documentation of initial and annual competency shall include the date the
					 evaluation was performed, a description of the tasks evaluated, and the name,
					 signature and Louisiana license number of the supervising occupational
					 therapist conducting the service competency evaluation;
4. in practice settings where an occupational
					 therapy assistant is supervised by more than one occupational therapist,
					 service competencies (initial and/or annual) performed by one supervising
					 occupational therapist will satisfy the requirements of this Section for all
					 occupational therapists supervising the occupational therapy assistant in the
					 performance of the same services, provided that their name, signature and
					 Louisiana license number appears on the evaluation;
5. a supervising occupational therapist shall
					 insure such documentation is maintained by the occupational therapy assistant
					 and at each clinic, facility or home health agency where the occupational
					 therapy assistant practices under his or her supervision.