{"data":{"id":"us-va/18vac85-80-100","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"18VAC85-80-100","heading":"Responsibilities","body":"A. An occupational therapist provides assessment by determining the need for, the appropriate areas of, and the estimated extent and time of treatment. The occupational therapist's responsibilities include an initial screening of the patient to determine need for services and the collection, evaluation, and interpretation of data necessary for treatment.\n\nB. An occupational therapist provides program planning by identifying treatment goals and the methods necessary to achieve those goals for the patient. The therapist analyzes the tasks and activities of the program, documents the progress, and coordinates the plan with other health, community, or educational services, the family, and the patient. The services may include education and training in basic and instrumental activities of daily living (ADL); the design, fabrication, and application of orthoses (splints); the design, selection, and use of adaptive equipment and assistive technologies; therapeutic activities to enhance functional performance; vocational evaluation and training; and consultation concerning the adaptation of physical, sensory, and social environments.\n\nC. An occupational therapist provides the specific activities or therapeutic methods to improve or restore optimum functioning, to compensate for dysfunction, or to minimize disability of patients impaired by physical illness or injury, emotional, congenital, or developmental disorders, or by the aging process.\n\nD. An occupational therapy assistant is responsible for the safe and effective delivery of those services or tasks delegated by and under the direction of the occupational therapist. Individual responsibilities of an occupational therapy assistant may include:\n\n1. Participation in the evaluation or assessment of a patient by gathering data, administering tests, and reporting observations and client capacities to the occupational therapist;\n\n2. Participation in intervention planning, implementation, and review;\n\n3. Implementation of interventions as determined and assigned by the occupational therapist;\n\n4. Documentation of patient responses to interventions and consultation with the occupational therapist about patient functionality;\n\n5. Assistance in the formulation of the discharge summary and follow-up plans; and\n\n6. Implementation of outcome measurements and provision of needed patient discharge resources.\n\nE. The practice of occupational therapy may include supervisory, administrative, educational, or consultative activities or responsibilities for the delivery of such services.","path":["Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing","Agency 85. Board of Medicine","Chapter 80. Regulations Governing the Practice of Occupational Therapy","Part IV. Practice of Occupational Therapy"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title18/agency85/chapter80/section100/","current_through":"2026 Regular Session (effective July 1, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:52:47Z","sha256":"ab545ccba3016f78c945606f7cafcedd7119d8f59a19071d3f22e411c669f921","source_id":"us-va-vac","stale":false,"prev":"us-va/18vac85-80-80","next":"us-va/18vac85-80-110"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}