Physical Therapist

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

21h•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a Physical Therapist to provide physical therapy services to patients with impairments, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease, or other causes, with some guidance. The role involves active collaboration with the healthcare/educational team to meet patient care, outcomes, and system improvement objectives. VUMC is a leading academic medical center dedicated to advancing health and wellness through patient care, education, and research, fostering an environment where everyone can thrive.

Requirements

LIC-Physical Therapy License - Tennessee
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year of experience
Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

Analyzes comprehensive information from formal and informal assessment pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine a rehabilitation treatment diagnosis.
Collaborates with stakeholders in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the rehabilitation continuum.
Applies appropriate, evidence-based interventions to ensure effective outcomes and re-evaluates performance to assess patient's progress towards goals.
Employs strategies to promote successful return to home, community, and school/vocational environments.
Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation, meeting institutional standards for quality and timeliness.
Evaluates patients with physical deficits including impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function by obtaining information pertinent to the assessment and administering and scoring standardized tests and objective measures of deficit areas.
Selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy.
Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician, and other members of the health care team.
Develops a plan of care that incorporates treatment interventions focused on meeting objective goals.
Develops and documents patient-focused short and long-term goals that are functional and measurable.
Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed.
Provides treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care.
Modifies treatment plan as needed to demonstrate provision of skilled therapy services including progression of treatment throughout the course of care, and revision of treatment interventions or goals not met.
May supervise and direct certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist/occupational therapist assistants, technicians, volunteers, and students.
Selects and follows correct protocol for care and utilizes evidence-based treatments.
Communicates the functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process, considering the communication needs/level of understanding of the audience and may share appropriate information/literature.