Accepting the Patient Flashcards
How would you assess your own personal knowledge and experience to ensure it is appropriate to accept this patient?
When determining if I should accept this patient for physiotherapy services,
I would self-reflect to see if the patient is seeking services that fall under a physiotherapist’s scope of practice.
How would you assess your own personal knowledge and experience to ensure it is appropriate to accept this patient?
Summarise the Pt disorder
The patient has been in an acute exacerbation of multiple sclerosis for the past 2 weeks
and has become deconditioned during this time.
How would you assess your own personal knowledge and experience to ensure it is appropriate to accept this patient?
Pt chief complaint
They require **an assessment to investigate their current status **
as well as treatment to assist in managing their mobility challenges.
How would you assess your own personal knowledge and experience to ensure it is appropriate to accept this patient?
The assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of their current issues fall within my scope of practice and,
through my formal physiotherapy training,
I am** competent to assess and treat** them.
What would you do if the services they requested were not under your scope of practice?
- Explain the role of PT and the scope of practice
- Why not under the scope of practice
- Provide options for appropriate referral to other healthcare profressional
How would you self-assess your competency? if not competent, what would you do?
Self-assess:
- List out the knowledge and skills required to work with this Pt
- Check whether have enough knowledge and skills
Action if deemed not competent:
- Offer to refer to other physiotherapists who are competent or trained to assess and treat the Pt’s condition
- Ask for Pt’s informed consent to liaise with the other physiotherapist
Action to improve competency:
- continuous education course
- Literature review
- Seek advice from a senior colleague
- Observe the work of the senior colleague
- First-time performing→supervision by the senior colleague
