Nantucket Cottage Hospital (NCH)
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Description
The Physical Therapist will carry out an individualized program of physical therapy including examination, assessment, treatment, planning, education, and communication to maximize a patient's progress toward achieving functional goals. The Physical Therapist will maintain a positive working relationship with other health professionals and staff.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conducts physical therapy practice within defined standards of care.
- Administers tests and measures to determine extent of patient’s impairment, patient problem list, and the prognosis for improvement.
- Designs, implements and adjusts plan of care based on patients’ functional needs, examination findings and prognosis.
- Directs support staff to ensure a positive patient experience, safe work environment and achieve patients’ functional goals.
- Provides objective, analytical documentation specific to each patient ensuring that it is clear and accurate for all visit types involved with patient care, patient/family education, and relevant communication.
- Practices the standards of physical therapy care including but not limited to use of durable medical equipment (DME), providing patient education, use of modalities, providing therapeutic procedures, and providing manual therapy.
Required Behavioral Skills:
- Dedication to Excellence: Commitment to work together to meet the needs of those we serve in the most competent, professional and compassionate way.
- Respect: The dignity and individual rights of every patient and employee are seen as the responsibility of every caregiver, employee and patient.
- Integrity: Commitment to the highest personal, organizational and ethical standards; providing patient care in a responsible, accountable manner.
- Quality: Efficient service to the community with the highest level of skill while striving for continuous improvement.
- Confidentiality: Privileged information is protected, and privacy standards are upheld.
- Communication: Effective and appropriate exchange of information with our patients, community, staff and partners in healthcare.