Travel Substance Use Counselor - $2,486 per week - Hattiesburg Mississippi

Company: Forrest County General Hospital - 6051 US Hwy 49
Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Posted On: 01/25/2025

Job Details
• The Seasonal Physical Therapist is responsible for the implementation of the physician's order for physical therapy services. The Seasonal Physical Therapist should provide all necessary aspects of physical therapy within an interdisciplinary environment in order to facilitate the return of the patient to as independent and safe lifestyle as possible. The Seasonal Physical Therapist must utilize a growth and development knowledge base in the care of children (pediatric), adolescent, and geriatric patients. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served; also demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age specific needs, and to provide the care needed.
  Job Requirements
  • Able to perform patient evaluations with use of appropriate functional tests/measures and demonstrates the ability to assimilate objective measures along with social factors, medical stability, activity restrictions, participation limitations or other relative comorbidities to determine functional deficits and construct short term goals, long term goals and personal/family goals with an appropriate frequency and duration in order to establish the therapy diagnosis and appropriate plan of care.
  • Demonstrate the ability to tolerate physically demanding tasks of moving equipment and patients utilizing safety measures for both self and patients per the physical/environmental demands specified below.
  • Demonstrates proper, secure documentation in the Electronic Medical Record
  • Demonstrates the ability to use critical thinking with patient evaluation and treatment planning
  • Demonstrates understanding of moist heat and other physical agent modalities commonly used as these apply to each area of practice
  • Utilizes age-specific patient care indicators all as necessary or indicated per plan of care
  • Demonstrates understanding of the musculoskeletal, nervous and integumentary system utilizing age-specific patient care indicators as it relates to each structure
  • Appropriately identifies learning needs of patient or family members
  • Works as a team member to assist patient/family at all points of entry into the acute therapy care system
    Additional Details
    • This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related job duties as assigned. More...

          

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