NSU HPD Catalog 2023-2024

414 Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences—Department of Physical Therapy scenarios. Emphasis is placed on clinical reasoning during all steps of patient/client management; the ability to apply evidence in practice, design, and execution of patient/clientrelated instruction; delegation to support personnel; and documentation of all aspects of care. This class also addresses primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention for patients with neuromuscular conditions. (2 credits) PHT 6914L—Neuromuscular II Lab This course is the laboratory component of Neuromuscular II. In it, students will perform all aspects of patient/client management including examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, development of a plan of care, procedural interventions, and outcome measurement. Students will apply these techniques to a variety of case studies, representing the scope of adult practice patterns in the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice. Neuromuscular II culminates in an intense, one-week laboratory experience, the Neuro Boot Camp, in which students work with real patients who have complicated neuromuscular disorders in a faculty-supervised setting. Students are responsible for performing a thorough examination, writing a comprehensive plan of care, performing procedural interventions, providing patient instruction, and communicating with caregivers. (2 credits) PHT 6915—Prosthetics and Orthotics In this course, students will acquire the skills necessary to evaluate need, analyze pathological gait, develop a plan of care, and treat patients for whom prosthetic or orthotic devices are indicated from a medical or rehabilitation standpoint. Students will learn how to manage movement-related problems in patients with amputations because of diabetes, burns, trauma, cancer, or genetic conditions. They will learn about the components, fabrication, and application of upper and lower extremity prosthetic and orthotic devices and spinal orthoses. The course includes a full-day laboratory experience in which students work with real patients with amputations in a faculty-supervised setting. Students will also explore the contemporary literature to facilitate an evidence-based approach to orthotic and prosthetic rehabilitation. (3 credits) PHT 6917—Clinical Education Experience A The Clinical Education Experience series consists of three consecutive, full-time, supervised experiences for senior D.P.T. students. Students are provided with opportunities to practice clinical decision-making based on evidence and develop entry-level physical therapy skills for patient/client management in inpatient and outpatient settings. Students will apply their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors, in various community-based settings representative of the common practice settings in which physical therapists work. Clinical Education Experiences encompass campus orientation in the summer of year three, followed by a total of 32 weeks of full-time clinical education during fall and winter semesters. Students will typically rotate through three clinical placements—10, 12, and 10 weeks—in a variety of health care organizations; schedule modifications may be made to accommodate facility requirements or other needs. The goal of all placements is student achievement of entrylevel competency and professional behaviors in all settings. Students must complete at least one experience in an acute care/inpatient, or the equivalent, such as an LTACH; subacute inpatient or outpatient with a neurorehabilitation component; and outpatient. During the full-time experiences, students will focus on patient/client management models by performing patient examinations, evaluations, determination of diagnoses, prognoses, and interventions (POC) within the context of the clinical setting, utilizing the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice. It is expected that, through the clinical experiences, students will demonstrate appropriate management skills of patients/clients across adulthood or the life span and across the continuum of care commonly seen in physical therapy practice. They will also demonstrate progressively greater independence in effectively managing less medically complex to more medically complex patients in each practice setting. Students are expected to demonstrate effective communication and documentation skills, professionalism consistent with the APTA core values, cultural competence, and ethical and legal practice. (5 credits) PHT 6920—Systems Management IV: Applied Clinical Decision-Making Students apply problem-solving heuristics, analyze case presentations of multifactor movement dysfunction, synthesize patient problem lists from collected data, develop intervention strategies, and evaluate the outcome of assessment and intervention decisions. The course integrates material from the foundational medical and clinical sciences and student clinical experiences. Accordingly, students demonstrate differential diagnosis and treatment planning across the life span as well as select and justify interventions, recommend referrals, and establish discharge dispositions. Student learning and course participation is driven by mock and real clinical cases and clinical experiences. Content experts guide cognitive domain discussion and the decision-making process, assess the affective domain and compliance with professional ethical standards, and evaluate complex overt performance of psychomotor tasks. Students will develop initial plans for examination and assessment, perform assessments, analyze and interpret test results, prepare written intervention plans, perform interventions, and suggest potential outcome assessments. Students will justify and modify treatment plans to account for changes in the patients’ status. In addition, students will prepare and present a clinical case report to the assembled class at the conclusion of the term. Topics for the clinical cases and clinical experiences will cover a broad spectrum of conditions seen by physical therapists in the clinical setting. (4 credits)

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