Physical Therapy, D.P.T.

Learning Outcomes

• Practices in a safe manner that minimizes the risk to patient self and others.
• Demonstrates professional behaviors in all situations.
• Practices in a manner consistent with established legal and professional standards and ethical guidelines.
• Communicates in ways that are congruent with situational needs.
• Adapts delivery of physical therapy services with consideration for patients’ differences, values, preferences, and needs.
• Participates in self assessment to improve clinical and professional performance.
• Applies current knowledge, theory, clinical reasoning, and the patient’s values and perspectives in patient management.
• Determines with each patient encounter the patient’s need for further examination or consultation by a physical therapist or referral to another health care professional.
• Performs a physical therapy examination using evidence-based tests and measures.
• Evaluates data from the patient examination (history, systems review and tests-measures) to make clinical judgments.
• Determines a diagnosis and prognosis that guides future patient management.
• Establishes a physical therapy plan of care that is safe effective, patient centered and evidence-based.
• Performs physical therapy interventions in a competent manner.
• Educated others using relevant and effective teaching methods.
• Produces quality documentation in a timely manner to support the delivery of physical therapy services.
• Collect and analyzes data from selected outcomes measures in a manner that supports accurate analysis of individual patient and group outcomes.
• Participates in the financial management of the physical therapy service consistent with regulatory legal and facility guidelines.
• Directs and supervises personnel to meet patient’s goals and expected outcomes according to legal standards and ethical guidelines.