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NBCOT Study Plan

This document outlines a 6 week study plan to prepare for the NBCOT exam. Each week covers different topics in occupational therapy through reading materials and completing practice questions. The plan includes reviewing key areas on the last week before the exam.

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NBCOT Study Plan

This document outlines a 6 week study plan to prepare for the NBCOT exam. Each week covers different topics in occupational therapy through reading materials and completing practice questions. The plan includes reviewing key areas on the last week before the exam.

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NBCOT Study Plan (4-6 Weeks)

Week #1
Day 1 Pediatric Reflexes
 OT Miri: Infant Reflexes
 OT Rex: Primitive Reflexes, Righting and Protective Reflexes, ATNR vs.
STNR
 TherapyEd: Chapter 5
Pediatric Milestones
 OT Miri: Milestones Overview (0-12 month), Milestones (0-2m),
Milestones (3-4m), Milestones (5-6m), Milestones (7-10m), Scissor Skills
 OT Rex: Developmental Milestones, Dressing Milestones, Functional
Grasps, Handwriting (0-6), Handwriting Grasp and Scissor Skills
Development
 OT Exam Prepper: Developmental Milestones
 TherapyEd: Chapter 5

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 2 Pediatric Food Continuum


 OT Miri: feeding development
 OT Rex: Self-feeding (2months – 5 years)
 TherapyEd: Chapter 5
Pediatric Medical Conditions / Other
 OT Miri: Activity Groups, Developmental Groups
 AOTA PDF: Pediatric Assessment and Intervention
 TherapyEd: Chapter 5

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 3 Pediatric Assessments


 AOTA PDF: Pediatric Assessment and Intervention
 TherapyEd: Chapter 5
 OT Miri: Developmental, Motor and Visual Motor, Sensory, Beery vs.
TVMS
 OT Rex: Peds Assessments
Pediatric Medical Conditions
 AOTA PDF: Pediatric Assessment and Intervention
 TherapyEd: Chapter 5

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 4 Peds Review

Mental Health
 AOTA PDF: Pediatric Mental Health, Adult Mental Health
 OT Rex: Mental health and ADL

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

AOTA Practice Questions: 25

Day 5 Mental Health


 AOTA PDF: Pediatric Mental Health, Adult Mental Health
 OT Rex: mental health and ADL

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 6 TherapyEd: Practice Exam #1

Week #2
Day 1 Musculoskeletal Impairments
 AOTA PDF: Musculoskeletal Impairments
 TherapyEd: Chapter 6

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 2 Musculoskeletal Impairments


 OT Miri: Joint ROM
 OT Rex: Cerebral Palsy, Arthritis Overview, Avulsion Injuries, Ostero-
What?
 OT Exam Prepper: MMT

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 3 Neurological
 AOTA PDF: Neurodegenerative Diseases

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 4 Neurological
 TherapyEd: Chapter 7

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 5 Neurological
 OT Miri: Aphasia, Apraxia, Alzheimers, 7 Stages of Dementia, Myotomes
C1-T1, Myotomes L2-S2, PNF Approaches
 OT Rex: Types of Agnosia, MS, Guillain Barre Syndrome, ALS,
Parkinson’s

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 6 Neurological Review


 OT Miri: Aphasia, Apraxia, Alzheimers, 7 Stages of Dementia, Myotomes
C1-T1, Myotomes L2-S2, PNF Approaches
 OT Rex: Types of Agnosia, MS, Guillain Barre Syndrome, ALS,
Parkinson’s

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Week #3
Day 1 Cardiovascular
 AOTA PDF: Cardiopulmonary Conditions
 TherapyEd: chapter 8
 OT Miri: MET Levels, Cardiac Rehab
 OT Rex: MET Levels
 OT Exam Prepper: MET Levels

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 2 Burns
 AOTA PDF: Burns
 OT Miri: Burns Rehab, Burns Classifications
 OT Rex: Burns Classifications
 OT Exam Prepper: Burns

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 3 Cognitive
 AOTA PDF: Neurologic Impairments
 TherapyEd: Chapter 10
 OT Miri: Allen Cognitive Levels, Ranchos Los Amigos
 OT Rex: Allen Cognitive Levels, Cognitive Assessments for Acute Rehab
 OT Exam Prepper: Allen Cognitive Levels, Ranchos Los Amigos, Glasgow
Coma Scale

Vision
 AOTA PDF: Low Vision
 OT Rex: 5 Types of Low Vision, OT Vision Terms

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain


Day 4 Driving
 AOTA PDF: Driving

Community Mobility
 AOTA PDF: Community Mobility, Wheelchair Seating and Mobility
 OT Rex: Wheelchair ADA Regulation and Fitting

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 5 Adult Assessment and Intervention


 AOTA PDF: Adult Interventions and Assessments
 OT Rex: OT Adult ADL Assessments, PAMS

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 6 TherapyEd: Practice Exam #2

Week #4
Day 1 GI, Renal, Endocrine, Integumentary
 TherapyEd: Chapter 9

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 2 Hand/Nerve Injuries


 AOTA PDF: Hand at the Upper Extremity
 TherapyEd: Chapter 6
 OT Miri: deQuervain’s, Carpal Tunnel, Claw Hand vs. Hand of
Benediction, Extensor Tendon Injuries, Nerve Injuries, Tendon Gliding
Exercises
 OT Rex: Clinical Hand Tests
 OT Exam Prepper: Splints, Median/Radial/Ulnar Nerve Injuries

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 3 Work Hardening/Return to Work


 AOTA PDF: Occupational Rehab and Return to Work

Ethics
 AOTA PDF: Ethics, Standards of Practice
 TherapyEd: Chapter 4
 OT Miri: Code of Ethics, Code of Conduct

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain


Day 4 Continuing Education
 TherapyEd: Chapter 4

Medicare/Medicaid/Insurance
 TherapyEd: Chapter 4

OTR vs. OTA


 TherapyEd: Chapter 3

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 5 Frames of References and Approaches to Practice


 TherapyEd: Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 14
 OT Miri: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up, Ecology of Human Performance,
Occupational Adaptation, EHP-MOHO-PEO

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 6 Frames of References and Approaches to Practice


 TherapyEd: Chapter 15, Chapter 16
 OT Rex: Models and Theories
 OT Exam Prepper: Models and FOR

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Week #5
Day 1 Go through TherapyEd test #1 and test #2 and read all rationales to all
questions

Review: FOR, Medicare/Medicaid, Continuing Education, Ethics

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

AOTA 3 Practice CST

Day 2 NBCOT Practice 100 Questions

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

AOTA 3 Practice CST

Day 3 Burns Review


 Review Burns Materials
 AOTA: Burns 23 MC Questions
Cardiopulmonary Conditions
 Review Cardiopulmonary Conditions Materials
 AOTA: Cardiopulmonary 31 ME Questions

Hand and UE Injuries


 Review Hand UE Injury Materials
 AOTA: Hand and UE 71 MC Questions

AOTA 3 Practice CST

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 4 Community Mobility


 Review Community Mobility Materials
 AOTA: Community Mobility 63 MC Questions

Driving
 Review Driving Materials
 AOTA: Driving 38 MC Questions

Low Vision
 Review Vision Materials
 AOTA: Vision 36 MC Questions

Ethics
 Review Ethics Materials
 AOTA: Ethics 88 MC Questions

AOTA 3 Practice CST

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 5 TherapyEd: Practice Exam #3

Go through TherapyEd test #2 and test #3 and read all rationales to all
questions

Week #6
Day 1 Musculoskeletal Impairments
 Review Musculoskeletal Materials
 AOTA: Musculoskeletal 127 MC Questions

Neurodegenerative Diseases
 Review Neurodegenerative Diseases Materials
 AOTA: Neurodegenerative Diseases 105 MC Questions

Neurological Impairments
 Review Neurological Impairments Materials
 AOTA: Neurological Impairments 92 MC Questions

AOTA 3 Practice CST

Purple Book: 10 Questions Each Domain

Day 2 Mental Health Adults


 Review Adult Mental Health Materials
 AOTA: Adult Mental Health 96 MC Questions

Mental Health Pediatrics


 Review Pediatric Mental Health Materials
 AOTA: Pediatric Mental Health 69 MC Questions

Pediatric Assessment and Intervention


 Review Pediatric Assessment and Intervention
 AOTA: Pediatric Assessment and Intervention 119 MC Questions

AOTA 3 Practice CST

NBCOT: 10 questions each domain

Day 3 NBCOT Practice Exam


*complete test day simulation
-drove to test center at same time as exam
-wore a mask
-wore earplugs
-only took one break

Occupational Rehabilitation/Return to Work


 Review Materials
 AOTA: Return to Work/Occupational Rehab 109 MC Questions

AOTA 3 Practice CST

NBCOT: 10 questions each domain

Day 4 Standards of Practice


 Review Standards of Practice Materials
 AOTA: Standards of Practice 78 MC Questions
Wheelchair Seating and Mobility
 Review Wheelchair Seating and Mobility Materials
 AOTA: Wheelchair Seating and Mobility 53 MC Questions

Other
 AOTA: Other 39 MC Questions

AOTA 3 Practice CST

NBCOT: 10 questions each domain

Day 5 TEST DAY!!!

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