Physical Therapist - Michigan

Job Purpose:

Restores patient's function, alleviates pain, and prevents disabilities by planning and administering medically prescribed physical therapy.

Duties:

* Meets the patient's goals and needs and provides quality care by assessing and interpreting evaluations and test results; determining physical therapy treatment plans in consultation with physicians or by prescription.

* Helps patient accomplish treatment plan and accept therapeutic devices by administering manual exercises; instructing, encouraging, and assisting patients in performing physical activities, such as nonmanual exercises, ambulatory functional activities, and daily-living activities and in using assistive and supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses.

* Completes discharge planning by consulting with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health care workers; contributing to patient care conferences.

* Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing home exercise programs; instructing patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs; recommending and/or providing assistive equipment; recommending outpatient or home health follow-up programs.

* Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.

Skills/Qualifications:

Masters's Degree required.  Computer literate.