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Sep 07, 2024
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PTA 201 - Current Trends in Physical Therapy Practice Credits: 2 Study of current trends in the business of physical therapy and clinical education. Discussion of various topics related to healthcare, billing practices, documentation, legal and ethical issues, professionalism and career development.
Enrollment Requirement: PTA 101 , PTA 151 and PTA 252 with grades of 2.0 or higher.
Course Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
- Discuss current topics related to healthcare, reimbursement and documentation.
- Discuss legal and ethical issues and ramifications of actions in physical therapy.
- Discuss and describe common physical therapy business practices.
- Describe and provide examples of professionalism in the workplace and clinical setting.
- Discuss and apply strategies to deal with challenges in healthcare.
- Prepare for terminal clinical experiences.
- Explore career development.
Program Outcomes
- Implement plans of care developed by physical therapists.
- Provide care in a safe, legal and ethical manner.
- Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, families, physical therapists and other care providers both verbally and non‐verbally including accurate written communication and documentation.
- Instruct patients, families and other health care providers using techniques consistent with the level of the audience.
- Function as integral team members and participate in the team process.
- Transition to successful employment as PTA.
College-wide Outcomes
- Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
- Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
- Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
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