Scope Of Practice And Professionalism

Question 1

What are the four pillars that underpin physiotherapy practice?

Answer 1

1. Exercise, movement and rehabilitation
2. Manual therapy and therapeutic healing
3. Therapeutic and diagnosis technologies
4. Allied approaches

Question 2

What are the different types of insurance in physiotherapy?

Answer 2

1. Medical malpractice insurance

2. Public liability insurance

Question 3

What is medical malpractice insurance?

Answer 3

This covers claims for personal injury to your patients arising from your work

For example failing to assess and treat properly or harming your patients with your treatments

Question 4

What is public liability insurance?

Answer 4

This covers non personal injury claims and hat are not associated with your treatments

For example slips, trips falls coming in and out of your clinic

Question 5

What developing roles are there for the profession?

Answer 5

1. Advance practice practitioner
2. Injection therapy
3. Prescribing

Question 6

What does professionalism mean?

Answer 6

The quality, skills, competence and behaviours you are expected to demonstrate as a physiotherapist

Question 7

How do you demonstrate professionalism?

Answer 7

1. Working within framework of personal and professional standards
2. Adhering to a moral, ethical and professional code of practice
3. Maintaining awareness of individual limitation scope of profession
4. Delivering sage and effective service that is caring and compassionate

Question 8

What is CPD?

Answer 8

Is a way for registrants to continue their learning throughout their careers so they keep their skills and knowledge up to date and are able to practice safely and effectively

Question 9

What are the CPD standards?

Answer 9

1. Maintain a continuous up to date accurate record of their CPD activities
2. Demonstrate that their CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practice
3. Seek to ensure that their CPD has contributed to the quality of their practice and service delivery
4. Seek to ensure that their CPD benefits the service user
5. Present written profile explaining how they met the standards of CPD

Question 10

What is a support worker?

Answer 10

Provide care to patients in clinical care settings

Their work is always delegated and supervised by a quality health care professional

Basically clinical and care skills may be undertaken to support the patients overall care

Question 11

What is support workers scope of practice?

Answer 11

1. The individual contract of employment defines the role the support worker is to perform
2. The job description linked to the role the support worker is to perform
3. Employer policies detail the aspects of the care pathway that the support worker is expected to deliver
4. The extent to of activities delegated to the support worker by registered physiotherapist
5. The extent to which the support worker is educated, trained and competent in tasks
6. Appropriate supervision must be in place

Question 12

What is scope of practice?

Answer 12

Is any activity undertaken by a physiotherapist that may be situated within the four pillars of physiotherapy practice