Dr. Pallavi Patel School of Rehabilitative Sciences (PSRS)—Department of Occupational Therapy 2025–2026 336 educational experiences; provide academic guidance, direction, and encouragement; monitor overall progress; and identify appropriate resources. Students should schedule a meeting with their adviser as necessary, via videoconferencing or face to face when on campus. Each student’s academic adviser, being aware of many valuable resources, can assist in every facet of the program if the student is having problems that might interfere with the student’s studies or progress. Students should not hesitate to contact their adviser for needs related to academics or policy. Also, it is expected that students will respond to any email communication from their academic adviser within 24 hours of receipt. Students are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to develop a relationship with their adviser and be proactive in their academic preparation. Essential Functions Most educational programs have technical standards or essential function policies that guide and protect the program and its students regarding reasonable expectations for admission, retention, and graduation. Essential functions, as distinguished from fund of knowledge standards, refer to those abilities required for satisfactory completion of all aspects of a curriculum, including clinical education, and the development of professional attributes required of all students at graduation. The Entry-Level O.T.D. program has a responsibility to the public to assure that its graduates can become fully competent and caring occupational therapists who are capable of providing benefit and doing no harm. Individuals admitted and retained in the O.T.D. program must possess the intelligence, integrity, compassion, humanitarian concerns, physical and emotional capacity, cognitive and communication skills, and professionalism necessary to practice occupational therapy. To this end, all Entry-Level O.T.D. students must meet the requirements outlined in the O.T.D. program’s Essential Functions Policy for Admission, Retention, and Graduation. The Essential Functions document is provided in the orientation packet and can be found online at healthsciences.nova.edu/ot/orientation/nsu-otd-essential-functionsupdated-address_2_22_24-ftl.pdf. Authorship Credit and Order Guidelines and Policy • Principal authorship, order of authorship, and other publication credits should accurately reflect the relative scientific, technical, professional, or scholarly contributions of the individuals involved. • No authorship credit should be given to someone whose suggestion/idea/feedback may have influenced a project but did not actively participate in project development and implementation. This person could be acknowledged as described in bullet five (following). • Authorship is not merited solely for administrative support, financial contribution, or a supervisor/ adviser’s position. • Authorship credit should go to those who do the actual writing and to those who have made significant scientific or scholarly contributions to a study, such as formulating hypotheses, structuring the design, conducting the analysis, interpreting results, or writing a major portion. • Those with minor contributions to the manuscript are appropriately acknowledged in footnotes, an introductory statement, or acknowledgments. • The following apply to students as authors:
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