Responsibilities:
- Provides physical therapy treatments according to the Physical Therapist’s treatment plan.
- Assess patient health by interviewing patients; perform physical examinations; obtain, update and study therapy history.
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient records.
- Perform therapeutic procedures by administering manual exercises, ambulatory functional activities, and daily living activities; and in using supportive devices, such as crutches, canes and prostheses.
- Instructs and counsels patients by describing therapeutic regimens; giving normal growth and development information; promoting wellness and health maintenance.
- Provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patient management plans.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
- Maintains production objectives by noting current treatment trends; monitoring actual physical therapy services rendered to production objectives.
- Maintains legal and accreditation compliance by adhering to policy positions concerning federal, state, and local regulations.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
Qualifications:
- Completion of an accredited Physical Therapist Assistant program.
- Current Illinois State Physical Therapist Assistant License.
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