PT Professional Practice IV

Catalog description

The Professional Practice series threads throughout the curriculum. In this course, learners will delve deeper into the topics of leadership development, clinical leadership, outcomes management, and higher-level ethics and legal implications on practice. In this course, learners will develop the professional behaviors, knowledge, and values crucial to be leaders in a dynamic health care environment. Through an understanding of the profession's history and governance, students will have experiences in professional and patient advocacy initiatives. Students will master the crucial skills of patient and professional communication in order to operate effectively in practice. Students will be grounded in ethical frameworks that can be easily applied to practical situations encountered in clinical practice. This course series also seeks to develop leadership skills necessary to be change agents in healthcare practice, management, education, research, and advocacy.