PTA 135 Topics in Physical Therapy I

• Compare and contrast models of health
• Explain how the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) and biopsychosocial model can be applied by a PTA to individualize a patient’s needs, goals, and inverventions
• Use the ICF to describe a patient’s situation and status
• Discuss the importance of privacy and confidentiality in healthcare
• Discuss patient confidentiality guidelines and requirements and relate these requirements to HIPAA practices
• Identify the roles and significance of documentation in health care
• Explain when to document, what to document and why the documentation is important as PTA provides patient interventions
• Identify the categories of documentation content
• Recognize various physical therapy documentation formats
• Locate relevant information in the medical record
• Compare and contrast all parts of the Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan (SOAP) note for physical therapy documentation
• Use an organized and logical framework to document patient care
• Use language for physical therapy documentation that is accurate, complete, legible, timely, and consistent with institutional, legal, and billing requirements
• Use appropriate terminology, abbreviations, grammar, syntax, and punctuation in physical therapy documentation and communication
• Appropriately correct charting errors
• Document physical therapy services provided including the appropriate elements of:
  • Patient/client self-report
  • Identification of specific intervention(s) provided
  • Frequency, duration, and intensity
  • Equipment provided
  • Changes in patient/client impairment, functional limitation and disability status as they relate to the plan of care
  • Response to interventions including adverse reactions to interventions, if any
  • Factors that modify frequency or intensity of intervention and progression goals, including patient/client adherence to patient/client-related instructions
  • Communication with physical therapists, patients/clients, caregivers, and other healthcare team members
  • Indication of no-show or cancellation
• Demonstrate an awareness of one’s own communication (verbal and non-verbal) style and its impact upon communication with the patient, physical therapist and other healthcare personnel
• Discuss the interpersonal and communication skills involved in developing rapport with a patient
• Identify strategies to improve communication in the clinical environment
• Demonstrate an awareness of social responsibility and advocacy, including participation in professional and community organizations and activities
• Describe basic teaching and learning principles and their application to rehabilitation
• Apply principles of learning using a variety of teaching strategies during instruction of patients, caregivers and other members of the health care team
• Educate others about the role and responsibilities of the physical therapist assistant
• Educate others using teaching methods that are commensurate with the needs of the learner
• Communicate effectively in an inter-professional team
• Compare and contrast the values and ethics of the PT profession with those of another health profession
• Demonstrate understanding of the process involved in preparing for clinical rotations
• Develop professional communication documents to effectively relate personal strengths relevant to a physical therapy clinical rotation