Foundations of Patient Management

Catalog description

This course introduces frameworks to help students create a schema for physical therapist practice and clinical reasoning, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Framework (ICF), Guide to Physical Therapist Practice (Guide), Patient/Client Management Model, Patient-centered Care, Lifespan Perspectives, Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, and the Movement System framework. Relational coordination as applied to healthcare systems are also discussed. Principles of pharmacology and imaging are also introduced, as are the categories of tests/measures and interventions described in the Guide to PT Practice. Students learn the fundamentals of documentation as a legal record of patient care.