Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for occupational therapists. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Complete and maintain necessary records.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Pick an occupational task, then outline a real example. This is practice, not a prediction of an employer’s questions.
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Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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