PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT MANAGEMENT OF THE MEDICALLY COMPLEX PATIENT      2 Credit Hours

Catalog description

Course serves to review and synthesize primary diagnoses and co-morbidities and the effects they have on the medically complex patient. The course will also present the pharmacology associated with various body systems and the side effects/adverse effects that might impact patient outcomes. The course is designed to review body system pathologies and incorporate that information into Physical Therapy Assistant clinical decision making when treating a complex patient. Course culminates with PEAT exam (practice NPTE-PTA board exam).