FOUNDATIONS OF PATIENT MANAGEMENT

Catalog description

Using dynamic lectures and active learning assignments, 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/Cli ent Management Model, Patient -centered Care, Lifespan Perspectives, Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, and a Movement System approach. Relational coordination as applied to healthcare systems is also discussed. Principles of pharmacology and imaging are introduced, as are the categories of tests/measures and interventions described in the Guide. Students learn the fundamentals of documentation as a legal record of patient care.