PTA220 — Clinical III
PTA 220 - Clinical III PTA 220 - Clinical III This course includes the student’s third clinical experience in the Physical Therapist (PTA) curriculum. Students are assigned a physical therapy clinical site full time (37.5 hours per week) for 6 weeks. They will work under the direct supervision of a Licensed Physical Therapist or a Registered Physical Therapist Assistant. Students will observe, integrate, and apply concepts and skills that they have acquired in all of the previous clinicals, classroom and lab course work in the PTA curriculum, at the Advanced Intermediate Level on the Physical Therapist Assistant Clinical Performance Instrument. The PTA student will demonstrate clinical problem-solving skills based on academic knowledge and previous lab and clinical experiences. Students will create a self-directed professional development plan in their first week of this clinical experience and engage in weekly critical self-reflection activities weekly throughout this clinical experience. Perform all interventions in a safe, ethical, efficient and technically competent manner that minimizes risk to the patient, self and others, at the Advanced Intermediate Level on the Physical Therapist Assistant Clinical Performance Instrument. Communicate with patient, peers, family members, and other members of the medical team in ways congruent to situational needs and support delivery of patient services at the Advanced Intermediate Level on the Physical Therapist Assistant Clinical Pe