ED PA + ED PT = Teamwork
AMAZING. At this point I don’t know if I could go back to having to manage patients without my PT colleagues. They really help round out the care provided to patients in the ER.
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emergency department physical therapy
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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Home (Health) is Where the Heart Is
Advanced practice is really just all about doing the basics really well and being able to apply the basics to a much broader presentation. Students need to learn the basics really well, so they can apply them in advanced ways. That’s what I try to ensure happens.
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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.
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.”
What to do in a Disaster
“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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One Man Show
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.
What is the Flow?
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.
Back to Back to Back
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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