Physical Therapist 13 Week Assignment Premium Pay

Overview

Temporary 13 Week Assignment Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm $90.00 per hour 1 year of home health experience required! Responsible for helping patients maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and function thereby enabling optimal performance and enhancing health, well-being, and quality of life. Under a physician approved plan of care, this position is responsible for providing interventions, conducting reexaminations, modifying interventions as necessary, and performing discharge planning. PRN only Position

Responsibilities

• Provides a comprehensive patient examination / evaluation at the initial visit upon receipt of referral.
• Reassesses the patient at a minimum of every 30 days.
• Makes necessary revisions to the patient's plan of care in conjunction with the physician and documents the patient's continual care needs.
• Provides physical therapy patient/client management, including interventions in accordance with the physician approved plan of care.
• Provides documentation of each visit according to the APTA Documentation Guidelines and accepted regulatory standards for inclusion in the patient's clinical record.
• Provides coordination of care by participating in interdisciplinary team and by observing, recording, and reporting the patient's response to treatment and any change in the patient's condition to the team.
• Identifies the patient's need for other disciplines and services and initiates the appropriate referrals.
• Provides resources for future needs.
• Acts as a consultant to other care providers as needed.
• Completes OASIS assessments timely, accurately, and according to OASIS user's manual definitions.
• Supervises Physical Therapy Assistants (PTA) in accordance with applicable municipal, state, and federal rules and regulations.
• Provides consistent patient care oversight.
• Remains accessible by telecommunication, conducts regularly scheduled and documented conferences with the PTA, and makes supervisory visits to the patient.
• Assesses competence of PTA in performing assigned activities.
• Remains available upon request of the PTA for reexamination of the patient in instances of a noted change in the patient's medical status, response to interventions or a discharge or discontinuation from physical therapy services.
• Includes documentation of supervisory activities in the patient's medical record.