Physical Therapist Resume Example

I'm 36-old Physical Therapist Clinical Reviewer Senior with over 13 years of expirience in Able to quickly assess need for appropriate skilled PT services, Superb professional written and verbal communication skills and Familiarity with Utilization Management Guidelines . Certified in and . A good team player with the ability to multi- task.

• Utilize support personnel (aides, sr. aides, assistants) as appropriate and available
• Attends and participates in staff meetings, required in-services, agency PI activities and other meetings as requested
• Actively support and participate in patient coverage efforts across all divisions within the department as necessary
• Teaches patient and family regarding the disease process, self care techniques and prevention strategies
• Actively support and participate in patient coverage efforts across all divisions within the department as necessary
• Consistently meet patient care productivity standard as established for job classification

• Initiate patient and family education in a timely manner relative to age, LOS, readiness to learn, and emotional status
• Relieves pain and prevents or corrects physical disability or deformity following disease, injury or loss of body part
• Collaborates with Physicians, and other health care team members regarding patient treatment plan, progress and change in status
• Manages staffing levels and capacity; is proactive in recruitment and retention initiatives to ensure availability of staff
• Sensitivity to cultural diversity and to making accommodation available to provide services to a diverse population

• Initiate patient and family education in a timely manner relative to age, LOS, readiness to learn, and emotional status
• Relieving patient's pain using exercises, hands-on therapy, stretching, and physical therapy devices
• Teaches patient and family regarding the disease process, self care techniques and prevention strategies
• Ensure that patient/family understands when and how to access further intervention
• Communicating with patient, family members, and other members of the interdisciplinary team

• May supervise the activities of physical therapy assistants, home health aides and students
• Provides orthopedic or neurologic physical therapy consultation to other Kaiser facilities
• Informing patients what they should anticipate in different stages of their recovery and how to handle each situation
• Serves as a resource for development and evaluation of the residents' curriculum projects/assignments

• Ensure that patient/family understands when and how to access further intervention
• Serves as a resource for development and evaluation of the residents' curriculum projects/assignments
• Provides orthopedic or neurologic physical therapy consultation to other Kaiser facilities
• Informing patients what they should anticipate in different stages of their recovery and how to handle each situation