Sunrise PTA

Key Deliverables

• Assists the physician in evaluating the patient's level of function.
• Assesses patient's home environment for safety hazards and architectural barriers, identifies equipment needs.
• Identifies functional problems and establishes goals and a plan of care designed to improve the patient’s functional status (revising as necessary).
• Performs patient tests, measurements, and evaluations, such as range of-motion and manual muscle tests, gait and functional analysis, and body parts measurement, and records and evaluates findings to aid establishing or revising specifics of treatment programs.
• Performs and completes start-of-care, and ongoing assessments and associated paperwork in accordance to agency policy.
• Periodically reevaluates and upgrades the patient's program to maximize functional improvement.
• Administers the exercise program utilizing specialized therapeutic exercise techniques and equipment.
• Plans and administers prescribed physical therapy treatment programs for patients to restore function, relieve pain and prevent disability following disease, injury, or loss of body parts.
• Recommends prosthetic/orthotic devices for patients or evaluates their devices and makes minor adjustments or recommends modifications by the prosthetist/orthotist.
• Confers with the family, referring physician, and other agency professional staff to obtain information to promote coordinated, efficient, and quality patient care.
• Performs and submits required documentation of patient's evaluations, plan of care, clinical notes, and progress reports, summaries along with changes in orders.

Performance Responsibilities

• Exercises necessary cost control measures.
• Strives to maintain positive internal and external customer service relationships.
• Demonstrates effective leadership skills.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills by conveying necessary information accurately, listening effectively and asking questions when clarification is needed.
• Demonstrates reliability by arriving to work on time and taking breaks in expected time frames.
• Maintains productivity utilizing time management.
• Provides appropriate and thorough service to patients/clients, ensuring proper completion of services in an accurate and timely manner and in accordance with agency policy.
• Notifies patient/clients prior to the visit and communicates further visits scheduled.
• Schedules own time based on priorities and maintain productivity utilizing time management.
• Drives responsibly and safely to and from the client's home.
• Performs and completes start-of-care, and ongoing assessments and associated paperwork in accordance to agency policy.
• Establishes Home Bound Status and document.
• Provides skilled services and/or supervises, requiring substantial knowledge and skills in accordance with the Plan of Care (POC) and accepted standards of professional practice.
• Determines discipline frequencies according to physician order and/or assessed needs.
• Implements and adheres to physician's orders.
• Obtains physician order or verbal orders for Start of Care (SOC) or Resumption of Care (ROC) or Recertification (RECERT) within twenty-four (24) to forty-eight (48) hours from the time of service.
• Notifies physician with any changes with the initial plan of care (POC) and obtains any appropriate orders.
• Provides teaching to patient/client and answers health-related questions and documents patient/client/caregiver understanding of education.
• Completes Home Health Nursing Aide care plan and makes supervisory visits on Home Health Aides and PTAs at least every fourteen days (14).
• Documents patient's/client's care using appropriate agency forms and submits to agency within appropriate timeline.
• Absess any medication changes with each Re-visit and update the Medication Profile Form in the home and in the agency's medical record.
• Notifies physician with any change in client condition, abnormal findings and new medications.
• Obtains orders as Indicated with the appropriate form and submit in a timely manner.
• Completes Discharge Oasis and Discharge Summary when patient/client is discharged.
• Completes Recertification Oasis every sixty (60) days while on service and obtain new orders for a new plan of care.
• Communicates with the staffing coordinator with any scheduling concerns and/or changes in patient/client assignment.
• Communicates all Start of Cares (SOC), Resumption of Care (ROC) or Recertification (RECERT) to the clinical support division within twenty-four (24) hours of completion.
• Maintain continuity of care and document communications with others within the health care team.
• Demonstrate work that meets quality standards.
• Assisi in periodic auditing of paperwork of self/peers.
• Assisi in training of new personnel for field duty.
• Communicates regularly with the Director of Nursing and Clinical Supervisor with all patient/client concerns or ideas for better patient/client outcomes.
• Adheres to Agency Code of Conduct, Standards of Practice, and Patients/Clients Rights/ Responsibilities.
• Demonstrates professionalism in appearance, adhering to Agency dress code.

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate from an accredited Physical Therapy program and licensed by the state of Arizona.