COTA Domain 3 practice questions: Professional Standards

10 questions · Untimed · Explanation after each question

Evidence-based practice and quality improvement, infection control and emergencies, risk management, supervision, documentation and reimbursement, HIPAA, ethics and the NBCOT standards, and service competency. Domain 3 is 18% of the COTA exam, about 34 of 190 items.

Line drawing of a wall-mounted hand sanitizer, a box of gloves, a folded gown and a laptop on a cart

Before you start

Most questions have one best answer among three or four options. Multi-select questions have six options with three correct: select three, and you earn a point for each correct one. Each explanation says why the answer is right and why the tempting wrong answers are wrong.
Check each answer to see the explanation before moving on. Checked answers cannot be changed.

Original practice questions written to the NBCOT 2022 COTA Examination Content Outline, not NBCOT exam questions. Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by NBCOT (the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy) or Pearson VUE. COTA is a certification mark of NBCOT.