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From Outpatient to All Patient

Personally, my biggest adjustment was a change in mindset.  In outpatient, my focus was improving patient’  pain experiences immediately to build a relationship moving forward.  In the ED, my focus is to improve patients’ pain experiences to give them a path forward and guide them to outpatient.  I’m making sure they are safe to return home, but not necessarily improving their pain experience to a 0, like I would shoot for in outpatient.

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Call On Me

I refer to myself as an acute care generalist with an emphasis on Emergency PT and ICU PT. Really, I’m a “jack of all PT trades” which has been beneficial in the ED so that I have been able to manage a wide variety of conditions.

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Be a Super Model

No two Emergency Department Physical Therapy (ED PT) programs are the same. However, the most common models are the embedded model, or the on-call model. This post will help delineate the pros/cons of both so you can decide what works best for your program. I’ll let you decide, which one is the “Super Model.”

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