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Clinical Practice III
PT221

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

6.00

PREREQUISITES:

PT219 Clinical Practice II.

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

This is a 7 week full time terminal clinical. Student required to attend typical working hours Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Opportunities to practice physical therapist assisting skills. Assignments on the basis of demonstrated need for additional knowledge and/or skill in a given area to hospitals, nursing homes, sub-acute hospitals, pediatric facilities and various outpatient facilities. Opportunities to advance skills to an independent level. (Full-time for 7 weeks).

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

AREA OR PROGRAM OUTCOMES

  1. Demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, families, caregivers and the health care team.
  2. Exhibit professional behaviors and conduct that reflect physical therapy practice standards, demonstrating individualization and sensitivity to culture.
  3. Use critical thinking skills to implement and adjust a physical therapy plan of care and report changes to the physical therapist.
  4. Perform and document physical therapy data collection efficiently and accurately under the supervision of the physical therapist.
  5. Perform and document physical therapy interventions safely and accurately under the supervision of the physical therapist.
  6. Teach patients, families, caregivers and other health care providers to perform physical therapy interventions using relevant and effective teaching methods.
  7. Demonstrate a commitment to professional growth and life-long learning.
  8. Complete credentialing requirements and obtain employment in community health facilities.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Demonstrate appropriate communication with CI, supervising PT, patient, and other members of the health team.
    1. Communicate verbally, nonverbally, and in writing in an effective, respectful, and timely manner.
    2. Listen actively and attentively to understand what is being communicated by others.
    3. Interpret and respond appropriately to the nonverbal communication by others.
    4. Adjust style of communication based on target audience (e.g., age appropriateness, general public, professional staff).
    5. Communicate with the patient using language the patient can understand (e.g., level of education, cognitive status, translator, sign language.
    6. Initiate communication in difficult situations to promote resolution (e.g., CI, physical therapist, other therapy staff (e.g., OT, SLP), nursing staff, social worker).
    7. Select the most appropriate person(s) with whom to communicate (e.g., CI, physical therapist, other therapy staff e.g., OT, SLP), nursing staff, social worker).
    8. Self-evaluate effectiveness of communication and modifies communication accordingly.
    9. Seek and respond to feedback from multiple sources in providing patient care.
    10. Instruct members of the health care team, using established techniques, programs and instructional materials, commensurate with the learning characteristics of the audience.
  2. Demonstrate safe, effective, and ethical interventions (e.g., therapeutic exercise and activities, modalities, and physical agents) based on the plan of care.
    1. Review plan of care and collect data on patient's current condition to assure readiness for selected interventions.
    2. Apply knowledge of indications, precautions, and contraindications for selected interventions.
    3. Perform selected interventions consistent with the plan of care established by the physical therapist.
    4. Modify selected interventions within the plan of care to maximize patient safety and comfort.
    5. Modify selected interventions within the plan of care to progress the patient.
    6. Identify barriers to learning and adjust instructional techniques to meet patient learning style.
    7. Collect relevant data accurately and proficiently to measure and report patient response to selected interventions.
  3. Document appropriately.
    1. Select relevant information to document the delivery of physical therapy care.
    2. Document aspects of physical therapy provided, including interventions, patient response to interventions (e.g., vital signs, pain, & observation), selected data collection measurements, & communication with family & others involved in delivery of care.
    3. Produce documentation that is accurate, concise, timely, legible, grammatically and technically correct (e.g., abbreviations, terminology, etc.).
    4. Produce documentation consistent with guidelines, format and requirements of the facility, regulatory agencies, and third-party payers.
  4. Demonstrate professional behavior.
    1. Demonstrate initiative, is punctual and dependable.
    2. Wear attire consistent with expectations of the work setting and PTA program.
    3. Demonstrate integrity in all interactions.
    4. Exhibit caring, compassion, and empathy in providing services to patients.
    5. Maintain productive working relationships with clinical instructor, supervising physical therapist, patients, families, team members, and others.
    6. Seek feedback from clinical instructor related to clinical performance, and accepts feedback without defensiveness.
    7. Respond to unexpected changes in patient's schedule and facility's requirements, and manages conflict in constructive ways.
    8. Maintain patient privacy and modesty.
    9. Provide effected feedback to clinical instructor related to clinical/teaching mentoring.
  5. Demonstrate an interest in improving self as well as the facility in which the individual is learning.
    1. Identify strengths and limitations in clinical performance, including knowledge, skills, and behaviors.
    2. Seek guidance as necessary to address limitations.
    3. Use self-assessment skills, including soliciting feedback from others and reflection to improve clinical knowledge, skills and behaviors.
    4. Acknowledge and accept responsibility for and consequences of own actions.
    5. Establish realistic short and long-term goals in a plan for improving clinical skills and behaviors.
    6. Seek out additional learning experiences to enhance clinical performance and accepts responsibility for continuous learning.
    7. Discuss professional issues related to physical therapy practice.
    8. Provide and receive feedback from team members regarding performance, behaviors, and goals.
    9. Seek and/or provide knowledge and theory (e.g., in-service education, case presentation, etc.) to achieve optimal patient care.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1.Completion at entry level of Web CPI assessment tool 2.Projects 3.Assignments

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

PROGRAM ACCREDITATION:

The HutchCC Physical Therapist Assistant program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), 3030 Potomac Ave., Suite 100, Alexandria, Virginia 22305-3085; phone: 703-706-3245; email: accreditation@apta.org; website: http://www.capteonline.org. If needing to contact the program/institution directly, please call (620) 665-3396 or email pta@hutchcc.edu.

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 03/16/2015