Employment Type:
Full time
Shift:
Night Shift
Description:
Job Summary:
Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and decrease or prevent deformity of patients suffering from disease or injury.
Tasks include:
-Administer manual exercises, massage and/or traction to help relieve pain, increase the patient's strength, and decrease or prevent deformity and crippling.
-Conduct and support research and apply research findings to practice.
-Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate followup care or referrals.
-Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
-Identify and document goals, anticipated progress and plans for reevaluation.
-Inform the patient when diagnosis reveals findings outside their scope and refer to an appropriate practitioner.
-Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
-Plan, prepare and carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain and prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
-Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
-Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
Job Requirements:
Graduate of Accredited School of Physical Therapy required.
Licensed Physical Therapist in the State of Florida required.
***$7500 Sign On Bonus
Evaluates and re-evaluates referred patients ability to perform functional skills and plans a treatment program designed to meet identified goals.
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