Physical Therapist

SUMMARY:

The Physical Therapist is responsible for identifying patient care needs and priorities for care through evaluation, planning, providing and/or delegating care for patients with physical and/or cognitive disabilities to improve functional independence.  This process focuses on patient/family needs and assessing the patient's response to care and progress toward outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

*Commits to the Mission, Vision and Beliefs of Crete Area Medical Center and consistently demonstrates our Core Values.

*Participates in meetings, committees and lean projects as assigned.

*Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in field of expertise.

*Performs service excellence initiatives such as:  AIDET, Key Words, Managing up, 10/5 Rule and Service Recovery when applicable.

*Performs and documents an initial patient examination and evaluates the data to identify problems.

*Establishes, documents and provides a plan of care with functional goals based on evaluation of the examination data and patient needs.

*Provides or delegates and supervises physical therapy patient intervention in a manner consistent with the examination data, the evaluation, and the plan of care.

*Provides and documents patient/family education regarding current condition and plan of care, including home program/discharge instructions.

*Performs and documents patient reexamination, reevaluates the data, and modifies and documents the plan of care.

*Communicates relevant patient care information with other health care professionals.

*Maintains current clinical competency per department guidelines.

*Assists with development and presentation of department community education programs.

*Uses Performance Improvement principles to help improve department operations.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Graduation from an APTA accredited school of Physical Therapy required.  Current Physical Therapy license with the State of Nebraska required. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification required.