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Quality Assurance Program Components
The purpose of the Quality Assurance (QA) Program is to promote continuing competency among the profession. Therefore, the Program components are designed to:
- Provide tools to assist occupational therapists in measuring their level of competence related to Essential Competencies and identify practices which fall below standard;
- Encourage occupational therapists to make improvements where necessary and demonstrate evidence of remediation; and
- Support occupational therapists in maintaining acceptable standards through continuing education.
The QA Program consists of four main components: Continuing Competence; Program Communication and Education; Program Promotion; Program Research and Reporting.
Continuing Competency is most relevant to the occupational therapist. It consists of three separate phases:
- Competency Enhancement: All occupational therapists will participate in Competency Enhancement annually.
- Competency Review and Evaluation: Randomly selected occupational therapist participates in Competency Review and Evaluation. Every OT should expect to participate in this process over time.
- Competency Improvement: Only those occupational therapists who need assistance to develop and demonstrate the Essential Competencies will participate in Competency Improvement.
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