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.”
“We do so much more than we are recognized for doing that it is important to practice up to our education and potential.”
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What is your philosophy about what makes an ideal ED PT?
Meet people where they are and do what you can for them. You can’t save or help everyone but you can always listen and provide comfort.
Question – What are you allowed to do in the ED? Generally how does the process of seeing a patient go?
The short answer? As every physical therapist must, it depends.
“Personally, as a new grad, this setting can be very intimidating. I really had to learn to trust my knowledge as a PT and speak up for my patients and myself when I believe their plan of care needs to be something different than what the doctor originally suggests.”
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Imagine you are at work, you’ve just grabbed a 50 pound box to carry, but as you come up, you feel a pop in your back. Immediately you’re on your knees, overcome with pain…
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When I first started working at my current hospital, there was no structured therapy program in the ED, but we would be called down for select cases to support, as needed. Our PTs established a substantial therapy program and we were consulted much more frequently at that point. I volunteered to be part of the small team of OTs that would float down to the ED, where I worked with our PTs to advocate for OT involvement and appropriate consults. I was a relatively new grad and really loved that I felt like I could practice at the top of my scope. When the opportunity arose last summer to spend some time full time in the ED, I jumped on it.
Rebekah Griffith PT, DPT – The ED DPT Let’s begin at the beginning! Hi! I’m Dr. Rebekah Griffith, the Emergency Department (ED) Physical Therapist behind The ED DPT. The ED
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