Company Description

Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is a full-service, non-profit Catholic hospital, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and a member of Trinity Health.

Job Description

Location is in Rio Vista PT clinic - a busy orthopedic clinic that is seeking an experienced therapist with preference for manual therapy skills/ dry needling/ orthopedic skills. The clinic allows for one-on-one care/ no overlapping of patients

Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and decrease or prevent deformity of patients suffering from disease or injury.
Tasks include:

-Administer manual exercises, massage and/or traction to help relieve pain, increase the patient's strength, and decrease or prevent deformity and crippling.
-Conduct and support research and apply research findings to practice.
-Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow up care or referrals.
-Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
-Identify and document goals, anticipated progress and plans for reevaluation.
-Inform the patient when diagnosis reveals findings outside their scope and refer to an appropriate practitioner.
-Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
-Plan, prepare and carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain and prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
-Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
-Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.

Qualifications

Job Requirements:
Graduate of Accredited School of Physical Therapy required.
Licensed Physical Therapist in the State of Florida required.

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