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Apr 25, 2024
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Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PTA 235 Topics in Physical Therapy III2 credits This course covers topics and skills of PTA career development, performance improvement & quality assurance, and ethical behavior in the physical therapy workplace.
Prerequisites: PTA 190 , PTA 215 , and PTA 255
Corequisites: PTA 256 , PTA 280 , and PTA 290
Quarters Offered: Fall
Global Outcomes: This course teaches to the global outcome of Teamwork.
Student Outcomes/Competencies: Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Identify resources both within and outside the clinic that help to increase one’s knowledge and skills as a physical therapist assistant
- Identify opportunities for lifelong learning as a PTA
- Assess the relevance and value of opportunities for lifelong learning as a PTA
- Design a self-directed plan for career development and lifelong learning
- Identify available resources for PTA board examination preparation
- Design a self-directed plan for board examination preparation
- Identify performance improvement and quality assurance activities in the workplace
- Contribute to a physical therapy workplace team through participation in performance improvement and/or quality assurance activities
- Analyze and discuss ethical situations encountered in physical therapy
- Apply an ethical decision-making framework to different types of ethical scenarios in the physical therapy workplace
- Utilize the APTA Standards of Ethical Conduct for the PTA and the Guide for Conduct of the PTA in analysis and discussion of ethical situations in physical therapy
Total Hours: 20 Lecture Hours: 20
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