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Final Flashcards

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Current vision for PT

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Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience

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Attributes of a doctoring profession

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  • Code of ethics
  • Internal controls
  • Unique body of specialized skills/knowledge
  • Licensure requirement by state
  • Autonomous decision making
  • Service orientation
  • External recognition by society
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4 A’s (4 stages of PT practice)

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  • Assistant to/servant to the physician prescription
  • Allied/alliance-prescription to referral to begin direct access
  • Autonomous: referral to direct access
  • Accountability: servicing society w/ interprofessional practice-collaboration
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Allied/alliance-prescription to referral to begin direct access

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  • Move from prescription to referral and onto direct access
  • Education is in colleges
  • Professional licensure
  • Accreditation (CAPTE)
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Autonomous: referral to direct access

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  • BS to MS
  • Referral to direct access care and recognized for advanced practice
  • Vision: Movement from Alled to autonomous having independent privileges for self-decision-making in care
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Accountability: servicing society w/ interprofessional practice-collaboration

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  • Relative autonomy

- Focus on serving individuals, institutions, society, and the profession

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5 roles of the PT

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  • Management of patients
  • Consultation
  • Education
  • Research
  • Administration
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APTA Code of Ethics

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  • Respect inherent dignity and rights
  • Be trustworthy and compassionate
  • Be accountable for professional judgements
  • Demonstrate integrity
  • Fulfill legal and professional obligations
  • Lifelong learning
  • Promote behaviors and practices that benefit individuals and society
  • Participate in efforts to meet health needs locally, nationally, and globally
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Who is Catherine Worthingham?

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  • First PT w/ a doctoral degree (in anatomy)

- President of American Physiotherapy Association during WWII

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Who is Col. Emma Vogel?

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Created first course for military physiotherapists

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Primary Care

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  • Addressing large majority of personal health care needs

- Partner w/ patients, and practice w/in context of family and community

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Secondary Care

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Treated initially by other practitioners and then referred to PT

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Tertiary Care

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Highly specialized, complex, and tech-based setting

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Evidence-based practice

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  • Best available evidence
  • Clinical expertise
  • Patient or client value/circumstances
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Measures used by PTs to gauge the quality of services

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Assess:

  • Structure of services
  • Processes of care
  • Measurement of outcomes of care (data collection and analysis)
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Difference b/t a clinical residency program and clinical fellowship program

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  • Residency: advance resident’s expertise w/in a specialty

- Fellowship: provides greater depth than residency in a speciality

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Advocacy

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  • Advocate for individuals and populations to manage and promote change
  • Adopt best practices, consumer-centered
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Competence

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Possession and application of knowledge and skills w/in PT’s role

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Continuing competence

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Ongoing possession and application of skills

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Lifelong learning

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Systematic maintenance and improvement of knowledge and skills

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Professional development

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Ongoing self-assessment, acquisition, and application of knowledge and skills that meet or exceed contemporary performance standards

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Professional scope of practice

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  • Profession’s unique body of knowledge
  • Supported by educational prep
  • Based on a body of evidence
  • Linked to existing or emerging practice frameworks
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Jurisdictional (legal) scope of practice

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  • Established by state’s practice act

- Governs the specific PT license and rules

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Personal scope of practice

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What you are educated and competent enough to do

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Patient centered care

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Caring for patients and their families in ways that are meaningful and valuable to the patient

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Methods for addressing advocacy in PT practice

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  • For the needs of the patient or society

- For the needs of the profession

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Accountability

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Active acceptance of responsibility

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Excellence

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Use current knowledge and skills while understanding personal limits

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Healthcare informatics

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Use of information technology to organize and analyze health records

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