ESSS 103 — Allied Health Clinical Skills
Course Catalog Description: This course serves as an introduction to rehabilitation professions, the basic concepts governing rehabilitation practice, and skills performed by a rehabilitation aide. Course work includes orientation to various practice settings and scope of practice for a rehabilitation aide. This includes education and training, communication, patient care, basic medical terminology, mobility, assistive devices, activities of daily living, adaptive equipment, and therapeutic exercise. Completion of this course will give the student the skills to work as a rehabilitation aide under the supervision of a physical or occupational therapist or a physical therapist or occupational therapist assistant in a variety of practice settings including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation centers, and home care. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of this course.