Professionalism 2: Patient Management

Catalog description

This course will focus on developing professional thinking and clinical skills. The course covers the elements of patient/client management with a focus on the components of the examination and the development of the evaluation/diagnosis/ prognosis process . Laboratory sessions emphasize examination skills with refinement of psychomotor skills learned during the first semester. Professional behaviors of that demonstrate Compassion & Caring, Integrity and Professional Duty are included within the laboratory s essions and patient discussions. The evaluative process will utilize the International Classification of Functioning and Disability (ICF) as the primary process for evaluating the examination findings, making a diagnosis and developing the prognosis/ plan of care. The course also includes: an introduction to documentation and billing, examination of patients in different clinical settings, and the basic principles of medical imaging.