Leading the Team-A Practical Guide to Working with PTAs

This interactive online course, primarily designed for physical therapists (PT) and PT students, provides the learner with the background needed to successfully utilize the knowledge and skills of a physical therapist assistant (PTA) in patient/client care. The course will clarify the team roles and relationships to assure the best patient/client outcomes.

NOTE: This is a prerequisite course for PTA’s pursuing the advanced proficiency pathway (APP).

Course Code:

LMS-353

Completion Instructions

To successfully complete this course, you must open and review all lessons and resources in the course. Once you have progressed through the course lessons and resources, you must take an assessment of learning. You are required to complete the assessment with at least 70% accuracy in order to claim CEU credit. You may retake the assessment as many times as you like.

Course level

Intermediate

Date published

08/01/2011

Delivery method

Online

Instructor(s)

APTA's PTA Caucus and Janet Crosier, Director of Physical Therapist Assistant Services

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you will be able to: 1.Model the correct clinical relationship between the PT and the PTA. 2.Describe educational requirements and minimum skill sets of the PTA. 3.Describe patient/client management activities PTAs may and may not perform. 4.Supervise PTAs in the clinical environment. 5.Provide mentoring and assist in career planning for PTAs.

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Overview
Type:E-Learning Course
Credits:0.2
Credit Categories
Domains:Education, Free to Members, crosier, Private Practice, Supervision and Teamwork, director of physical therapy assistant, caucus
Key Dates
Enrollment:Prior to  12/30/2022
Enrollment