Low to No Risk

22

Moderate Risk

1

High Risk

1

Extreme Risk

0

• 0.8Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
• 1Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
• 1.3Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
• 0.5Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
• 1Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
• 0.2Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
• 0.5Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
• 0.3Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.
• 1Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
• 1.2Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
• 2.3Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
• 0.5Provide information to the patient about the proposed intervention, its material risks and expected benefits, and any reasonable alternatives.
• 0.5Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.
• 2.1Administer treatment involving application of physical agents, using equipment, moist packs, ultraviolet or infrared lamps, or ultrasound machines.
• 0.3Teach physical therapy students or those in other health professions.
• 1.3Evaluate, fit, or adjust prosthetic or orthotic devices or recommend modification to orthotist.
• 2Refer clients to community resources or services.
• 1Conduct or support research and apply research findings to practice.
• 0.5Participate in community or community agency activities or help to formulate public policy.
• 1.1Construct, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices.
• 0.8Direct group rehabilitation activities.
• 1.2Inform patients and refer to appropriate practitioners when diagnosis reveals findings outside physical therapy.

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