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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Health Science
occupation category
Physical Therapists
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Identifies additional patient/client needs that are beyond the scope of Physical Therapists practice, level of experience and expertise, and warrant referral
- Demonstrates appropriate sequencing of events related to universal precautions
- Recognizes individual and cultural differences and adapts behavior accordingly in all aspects of physical therapy care
- Describes the legal/ethical ramifications of billing and act accordingly Correlates/distinguishes between billing and reimbursement
- Performs integumentary integrity tests and measures
- Supervises the Physical Therapists assistant and/or other support personnel
- Uses appropriate terminology and institutionally approved abbreviations
- Selects examination tests and measures that are appropriate for the patient/client
- Acts in concert with institutional “Patient Rights” statements and advanced directives (e.g., Living wills, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) requests, etc.).
- Performs prosthetic tests and measures
- Performs cardiovascular/pulmonary tests and measures
- Performs musculoskeletal system tests and measures
- Contacts insurance company to follow-up on a denial or ask for additional services including Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
- Uses perceptual and sensory evaluation technology, medical software like Advantage Software Physical Therapy Advantage and rehabilitation robots
- Identifies indications for consultation with other professionals
- Determines patient/client variables that affect learning
- Measures patient/client response to intervention
- Educates patient/client and caregiver to enable them to articulate and demonstrate the nature of the impairments in body function and structure, activity limitations, and participation restrictions and how to safely and effectively manage the impairments in body function and structure, activity limitations, and participation restrictions (eg, identify symptoms, alter the program, and contact the therapist)
- Measures and characterizes pain to include: Pain, soreness, and nociception, Specific body parts
- Prepares equipment for patient use include ramps, resistance exercise bands, electrotherapy, ultrasound, hydrotherapy and various gym equipment
- Performs posture tests and measures of postural alignment and positioning
- Determines equipment to be used and assemble all sterile and non-sterile materials
- Refers and discusses coordination of care with other health care professionals
- Acknowledges personal biases, via self-assessment or critical assessment of feedback from others
- Elicits the “patient’s story” to avoid stereotypical assumptions
- Establishes criteria for discharge based on patient goals and current functioning and disability
- Performs tests and measures for assistive and adaptive devices
- Identifies the need to improve risk management practices
- Uses appropriate grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation in written communication
- Characterizes or quantifies body mechanics during self-care, home management, work, community, tasks, or leisure activities
- Writes measurable functional goals (short-term and long-term) that are time referenced with expected outcomes
- Modifies elements of the plan of care and goals in response to changing patient/client status, as needed
- Applies sterile procedures
- Uses aseptic techniques
- Uses Universal Precautions
- Monitors patient/client response to intervention
- Makes referral to resources needed by the patient/client
- Properly discards soiled items
- Articulates a specific rationale for a referral
- Performs sensory integrity tests and measures that characterize or quantify
- Choose correct and accurate ICD-9 and CPT codes
- Select appropriate patients/clients for whom care can be directed to Physical Therapists assistants based on patient complexity and acuity, reimbursement, PTA knowledge/skill, jurisdictional law, etc.
- Identifies and prioritize impairments in body functions and structures, and activity limitations and participation restrictions to determine specific body function and structure, and activities and participation towards which the intervention will be directed
- Advocate for patient/client access to services
- Uses an organized and logical framework to document care (eg, refer to the Guide to Physical Therapists Practice, Appendix 5)
- Applies proper body mechanics (utilize, teach, reinforce, and observe)
- Integrate the examination findings to classify the patient/client problem in terms of body functions and structures, and activities and participation (i.e., practice patterns in the Guide)
- Follows institutional/setting procedures regarding risk management
- Documents patient/client care in writing that is accurate and complete using institutional processes
- Performs tests and measures for reflex integrity
- Synthesizes available data on a patient/client expressed in terms of the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF) model to include body functions and structures, activities, and participation
- Recognizes and characterizes signs and symptoms of inflammation
- Assesses prior levels of learning for patient/client and family/caregiver to ensure clarity of education
- Cites the evidence (patient/client history, lab diagnostics, tests and measures and scientific literature) to support a clinical decision
- Educates patients/clients and caregivers to recognize normal and abnormal response to interventions that warrant follow-up
- Identifies outcome measures of progress relative to when to progress the patient further
- Identifies patient/client goals and expectations
- Identifies who needs to collaborate in the plan of care
- Selects and prioritizes the essential interventions that are safe and meet the specified functional goals and outcomes in the plan of care
- Performs cranial and peripheral nerve integrity tests and measures
- Follows legal and ethical requirements for direction and supervision
- Performs gait, locomotion and balance tests including quantitative and qualitative measures
- Reviews pertinent medical records and conduct an interview which collects the following data: Past and current patient/client history, Demographics, General health status, Chief complaint, Medications, Medical/surgical history, Social history, Present and premorbid functional status/activity, Social/health habits, Living environment, Employment, Growth and development, Lab values, Imaging, Consultations
- Participates in quality improvement program of self, peers, and setting/institution Describes the relevance and impact of institutional accreditation (eg, Joint Commission or CARF) on the delivery of physical therapy services
- Conforms to documentation requirements of the practice setting and the reimbursement system
- Perform first aid
- Use transmission-based precautions
- Consults patient/client and/or caregivers to develop a mutually agreed to plan of care
- Complies with HIPAA/FERPA regulations
- Performs motor function tests and measures
- Educates the patient/client and caregiver about the patient's/client's current health condition/examination findings, plan of care and expected outcomes, utilizing their feedback to modify the plan of care and expected outcomes as needed
- Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Properly positions, drapes, and stabilizes a patient/client when providing physical therapy
- Includes consideration of billing/ reimbursement in the plan of care
- Makes on-going adjustments to interventions according to outcomes including environmental factors and personal factors and, medical therapeutic interventions. Makes accurate decisions regarding intensity and frequency when adjusting interventions in the plan of care
- Observes self-care and home management
- Utilizes information about health disparities during patient/client care
- Uses available evidence in interpreting the examination findings
- Characterizes or quantifies ergonomic performance during work (job/school/play)
- Characterize or quantifies environmental home and work (job/school/play) barriers
- Accurately interprets documentation from other health care professionals
- Perform emergency procedures
- Obtains consent from patients/clients and/or caregiver for the provision of all components of physical therapy
- Provides patient/client and caregiver clear and concise home/independent program instruction at their levels of learning and ensure the patient's /client's understanding of home/independent program
- Recognizes barriers that may impact the achievement of optimal functioning within a predicted time frame including*
- Performs arousal, attention and cognition tests and measures to characterize or quantify (including standardized tests and measures
- Determines the predicted level of optimal functioning and the amount of time required to achieve that level
- Provides care in a non-judgmental manner
- Verbalizes possible alternatives when interpreting the examination findings
- Uses virtual reality equipment to stimulate various muscles, add an element of creativity to physical therapy and stimulate the brain
- Ensures patient safety and safe application of patient/client care
- Maintains responsibility for patient/client care by regularly monitoring care and patient progression throughout care provided by PTAs and services provided by other support personnel
- Performs neuromotor development and sensory integration tests and measures to characterize or quantify
