Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Medicine
 
chapter
Regulations for Licensure of Occupational Therapists [18 VAC 85 ‑ 80]
Action Licensure of occupational therapy assistants
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 8/7/2009
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7/23/09  1:11 pm
Commenter: Tracy Miller, Rehabilitation Associates

concerns regarding supervision requirements for COTAs
 

18VAC85-80-110  Supervisory responsibilities of an occupational therapist.  Section B states that supervision is to occur "at  least every tenth session or 30 calendar days".  Section D states that the supervising therapist must  "review and countersign within 10 days recordings" in the patient record.  If you have to countersign a note within 10 days then you have to provide supervision at that time.  This would be very difficult to acheive in a school setting.  Please consider documentation by the suprevising OTR every 30 days or 10th visit that supervision has occured.

 

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