Therapeutic Skills II

Catalog description

The 7-course Therapeutic Skills Series investigates clinical management concepts from the Guide to PT Practice. Holistic patient approaches are presented for PT examination, assessment, and intervention of the patient with increasing complexity requiring an advancing ability to clinically reason, critically think, prioritize, and administer best-practice care. TS2, the 2nd of the 7 course series, equips students to select and perform basic patient care skills safely and efficiently including positioning, transfers, bed mobility, and gait training. Medical record documentation is introduced. Heat transfer principles are introduced and superficial thermal modalities explored including indications, contraindications, therapeutic effects, treatment selection, and application.