How to be an Effective Acute Care PT: Demystifying Our Role

Course overview

Chart review! Lab values! Past medical history! Lines and catheters! Sick patients! Vital signs! Demanding social workers! Complicated outcome measures! How do we make sense of so many competing issues to deliver efficient, effective, and excellent care for patients in a constantly and dynamically changing environment? Using the Patient/Client Management Model from the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice as a framework, this course will provide straightforward instruction, including lecture, demonstration, and clinician interviews, on how to safely, effectively, and efficiently examine, evaluate, treat, and appropriately discharge patients in the acute care environment.