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!!!