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Articles for PT CEUs
Supervising Assistants, Students, and Aides: Upholding Your Ethics in a Challenging Health Care Environment
December 20, 2016
Within the scope of practice for OT or PT, supervision is a process aimed at ensuring the safe and effective delivery of therapy services. It’s also about fostering professional competence. I recent... Read More
Ethics and Jurisprudence Professional Issues and Compliance
Upper Extremity Custom Orthotics - Part 2
December 1, 2016
This 2-part series will address basic information for creating and modifying custom thermoplastic orthotics for the upper extremity. Education learned from this series will be beneficial to those work... Read More
Prosthetics and Orthotics
Palliative Care Concepts for the Rehabilitation Professional: Adapting to an Evolving Disease Process
November 30, 2016
The definition of palliative care is “an approach that improves quality of life (QoL) for patients and families facing life-threatening illness.” There's a lot of confusion that palliative care an... Read More
Home Health
Effective Communication: Moving Beyond the Silos in Home Health Care
November 22, 2016
One of the key elements that will be vital to achieve success in this post-acute world, specifically as it relates to home health care, is communication. Not merely communication – effective communi... Read More
Home Health
Service Delivery: Preparing for the ATP Exam
November 17, 2016
The RESNA Assistive Technology Professional certification examination includes questions from a variety of content areas. One of those areas is Service Delivery. This module will cover the content are... Read More
Assistive Technology Review Series: Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)
Management of the Elbow Complex
November 17, 2016
Another thing to consider when reviewing anatomy is the carrying angle. There is a normal valgus angulation. In men, that normal angulation ranges between 11 and 14 degrees, and in women, 13 to 16 deg... Read More
Orthopedics
Legislation: Preparing for the ATP Exam
November 17, 2016
The RESNA Assistive Technology Professional certification examination includes questions from a variety of content areas. One of those areas is Legislation. This module will cover the content area inc... Read More
Ethics in Physical Therapy: Bioethics and Our Code of Ethics
October 17, 2016
Interestingly, hundreds of years later in the field today, a lot of people are talking about moral competency. Can we teach people to be good? How do we establish what good is? Sometimes good can be s... Read More
Ethics and Jurisprudence Professional Issues and Compliance
Recreational Technologies: Preparing for the ATP Exam
October 16, 2016
The RESNA Assistive Technology Professional certification examination includes questions from a variety of content areas. One of those areas is Recreational Technologies. This module will cover the co... Read More
Assistive Technology Review Series: Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)
Sensory Technologies: Preparing for the ATP Exam
October 13, 2016
The RESNA Assistive Technology Professional certification examination includes questions from a variety of content areas. One of those areas is Sensory Technologies. This module will cover the content... Read More
Assistive Technology Review Series: Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)
Ethics of Providing Culturally Competent Home Health Care
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October 12, 2016
Ethics has to do with the concept of right and wrong, with regard to human relationships and interactions. Because human relationships are very complex, those concepts of right and wrong, fair and unf... Read More
Ethics and Jurisprudence Home Health
Alternative and Augmentative Communication: Preparing for the ATP Exam
September 29, 2016
This course presents Alternative and Augmentative Communication. Definitions, terminology, access methods and strategies to optimize use will be addressed. Mounting and interfacing with power wheelcha... Read More
Assistive Technology Review Series: Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)
Cognitive Technologies: Preparing for the ATP Exam
September 26, 2016
This course presents cognitive technologies which are designed to increase independence and safety for clients with cognitive impairments. Content includes definitions and categories of equipment, as... Read More
Assistive Technology Review Series: Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)
Assessment: Preparing for the ATP Exam
August 27, 2016
The RESNA Assistive Technology Professional certification examination includes questions from a variety of content areas. One of those areas is Assistive Technology Assessment. This module will cover... Read More
Assistive Technology Review Series: Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)
Access: Preparing for the ATP Exam
August 27, 2016
This course presents a variety of access methods with definitions, clinical indicators, facilitators and programming. This information is then applied to a variety of Assistive Technology devices. Read More
Assistive Technology Review Series: Assistive Technology Professional (ATP)
Office Ergonomics: A Step-by-Step Guideline to Assessing the Office Workstation
August 18, 2016
This course is a transcript of a live webinar, Office Ergonomics: A Step-by-Step Guideline to Assessing the Office Workstation by Kelly Ingram-Mitchell, PT, MPT, CEAS, CWcHP. Please follow along with... Read More
Orthopedics Pelvic Health
Gaming in Stroke Rehabilitation
July 7, 2016
The following text is an edited transcript of a live webinar titled “Gaming in Stroke Rehabilitation”. Please follow along with course handouts to ensure understanding of material. Gami... Read More
Neurology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Physical Therapy Interventions: An Attempt to Limit Debilitating Symptoms
June 30, 2016
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Physical Therapy Interventions: An Attempt to Limit Debilitating Symptoms.The participant will be able to accurately describe the pathophysiology of ALS.The participant w... Read More
Neurology
Evacuation Considerations for Special Needs Populations
May 31, 2016
Learner Outcomes The participant will be able to identify at least three agencies involved in evacuating special needs populationsThe participant will be able to define the four elements of evacuation... Read More
Pediatrics
A Comprehensive Review of Current Physical Therapy Treatment for the Lumbar Spine
May 27, 2016
ObjectivesThe participant will be able to identify at least three difficulties in selecting effective physical therapy treatments for patients with low back pain.The participant will be able to identi... Read More
Orthopedics