From Rural Private Practice to the Emergency Department
I showed up day one with nothing, just me. No equipment, no tools except my hands and my brain.
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Making it Mindful
“Mindfulness can be a lifestyle. It is a non-judgemental existence assessing what is going on with you and around. With mindfulness you decide how you want to respond, it can start with an intentional breath to check in with yourself.”
Veteran’s Affairs, the ED, & the PT
One must be adaptable, flexible, bold, and efficient in their encounters with patients and providers alike. Particularly in the veteran population, a little warmth and choice words go a long way to quickly build a therapeutic alliance.
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From the Bedside to the QI Side
Dr. Ryer is the Senior Project Coordinator in Senior Services at Advocate Aurora Health, located in Wisconsin and Illinois. She is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who is board certified
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Bridging the GAP
I designed an intervention called GAPcare (the Geriatric Acute and Post-acute fall prevention intervention). The idea of GAPcare came to me after talking to our case managers. They said we really need PT in the ED to help with our patients.
The Emergency Department is No Place for Older Adults – Let’s Change That
An article by Dr. Pauline Chen sums this up nicely with her quote, “An older nurse finally pulled me aside. ‘Just admit him,’ she whispered, ‘It’ll cost more, but it’s
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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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The Legend
Meet Lisa TenBarge PT, DPT. Dr. TenBarge has been practicing in Emergency Department Physical Therapy in Flagstaff AZ since 2004 and has presented on the subject dozens of times on
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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