Physical Therapist – PRN
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Physical Therapist
Northern Arizona Healthcare
full-time
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Location: Arizona • 🇺🇸 United States
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Junior
Tech Stack
Node.js
About the role
- Participates in patient care conferences with other related health services, patient, and family to review patient's progress and evaluate goals.
- Develops appropriate plan of care that include goals and home instructions in conjunction with other team members, patient and family.
- Delegates selected treatment to supportive personnel with assumption of responsibility for care of patient and continuing supervision of supportive personnel.
- Plans specific measures to meet assessed learning needs and documents in patient record.
- Recognizes and addresses patient, family, and appropriate others in the learning needs of the individual.
- Presents information clearly and in a manner appropriate to the level of patient and family understanding.
- Implements the treatment plan and evaluates and records the patient responses to the treatment sessions.
- Participates in the development of individual discharge plans that are responsive to patient/family concerns.
- Able to revise/update plan based on assessment.
- Completes documentation per department policy.
- Acts as a resource person to peers within the rehabilitation department, fielding questions, mentoring, or providing educational opportunities.
- Acts as a liaison/partners with other educational institutions/groups/organizations to enhance professional development.
- Evaluates the patient by performing chart review, interpreting tests and measurements appropriate to discipline and patient diagnosis.
- Performs treatments and patient care activities in a timely manner following appropriate protocols and guidelines.
- Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
- Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.
- Ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates (if required for the position).
- Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.
- Completes charges in a timely manner and according to proper procedures.
- Meets productivity goals according to departmental standards.
- Responds to new orders promptly in compliance with department policy.
- Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety as well as all hospital and departmental.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree- Required
- Master's degree- Preferred
- Current license in the state of Arizona- Required
- BLS (American Heart Association) - Required upon date of hire
- Certification specific to profession- Preferred
- Fingerprint Clearance Card application number- Required upon hire
- Fingerprint Clearance Card- Required within 90 days of hire
- One to three years supervisory experience- Required
- Clinical documentation experience- Required
- Competence in using computers and basic software programs
