A successful career in the field of physical therapy involves organizing around 3 major components. A mentoring relationship helps to clarify the desired outcomes in the components and makes a clear assessment of the mentees’ current performance levels. The three career components are:
- Orientation
- Clinical Decision Making
- Technical Skills
Each component works to support the other two, and in turn is supported by the outcomes made. Orientation refers to not only the clarification of the values that are the foundation of ones practice but also the structures chosen to give expression to the values. Ones orientation towards the reason, the purpose for being involved in the field will influence the technical skills required to attain the end results.
Clinical decision making is an outcome of the structures chosen in the orientation and is directly impacted by the tensions that the structure produces. It also informs the technical skills that will be utilized as the higher degrees of complexity of clinical decisions require specific techniques that are reproducible and reliable in order to clearly identify the impact made by action.
And finally there is the craft, the technical skill and expertise that supports the actions that are made from the clinical decision making process and ultimately are a reflection of the orientation of the clinician regarding values, aspirations, and use of structures that are relational or transnational.
- Adaptive Equipment
- Admission and discharge planning
- Advising
- APTA Core Values
- Balance Testing
- Balance
- Bed Mobility
- Body Mechanics
- Building Rapport
- Cardio Pulmonary
- Case management
- Change Readiness
- Chart Reviews
- Choosing the Measurements
- Clinical Decision Making Elements
- Clinical Decision Making
- Clinicial Impact
- Cognition Tests
- Collaboration and coordination with agencies
- Collaboration
- Collecting Data
- Communicating to different audiences
- Communication across settings
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Congruence
- Consultation
- Consultative Practice
- Coordinating Care
- Core Values
- Cost Resources
- Cranial Nerve Tests
- Credibility
- Cultural Competence
- Data collection
- Data Overload – Shortcut
- Data Overload
- Demographic Impact
- Developing your Network
- Disability
- Discharge Planning
- Documentation of Care
- Documentation
- Drawing Conclusions
- EBP Outcomes
- EBP
- Educating like a Pro
- Environmental Assessments
- Evaluation
- Examination
- Family Conflict
- Fundamentals of Communication
- Fundamentals of Practice Management
- Fundamentals of Professionalism
- Gait and AD
- Gait Assessment
- Gait on Uneven Surfaces
- Health Promotion
- HIPAA
- Identifying Core Values
- Inflammation – Tissue Healing Phases
- Informatics
- Integument
- Interdisciplinary teamwork
- Interpersonal Communications
- Intervention – Adaptive Equipment
- Intervention – Airway
- Intervention – E Stim
- Intervention – Functional Training ADL
- Intervention – Functional Work
- Intervention – Manual Therapy
- Intervention – Physical Modality
- Intervention Integument
- Interventions General
- Knowing when you know – Vitals
- Levels of Evidence
- Making Referrals
- Marketing
- Mentoring
- Motor Function Tests
- MusculoSkeletal Exam
- Negotiations
- Neuro Development Exam
- Non verbal communication
- Orthotic Tests
- Outcome Measures
- Pain
- Patient Client Education
- Picturing
- POC Design
- POC Development
- Posture
- Precautions
- Prevention
- Productivity
- Professional Collaboration
- Professionalism
- Prognosis
- Progression of POC
- Prosthetic Tests
- Providing Evidence
- Pulling it all together
- Quality Improvement
- Questions
- Reflex Testing
- Reimbursement
- Risk Management
- Safety First
- Screening
- Self Care Assessment
- Sensory Testing
- Share a good thing
- Strategic Conflict Resolution
- Structural Thinking and Databases
- Supervising the PTA
- Systems Review
- The flavor
- The Negative Space
- Ther Ex Aerobic Conditioning
- Ther Ex Balance
- Ther Ex Body Mechanics Postural Stabilization
- Ther Ex Flexibility
- Ther Ex Gait Training
- Ther Ex Kegel
- Ther Ex NDT
- Ther Ex Relaxation
- Ther Ex Strength
- Ther Ex Ventillatory
- Transfers
- Wheelchair
- Work Ergonomics
- Writing Case Studies – Professional
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