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I often feel that as an acute care PT I am consulted just to dtenrmiee which conveyor belt to place a pt on (home, SNF, acute rehab). Sometimes our input is very vital to this process, and other times we get consulted on patients who are fully ambulatory and any medical professional could quickly and easily assess if the patient needs PT to be able to safely function in the home. In my 7 years experience in acute care, I see PT overutilized by the physicians and nursing staff. When patients need to be up and mobile, but do not need actual skilled PT, they consult PT for routine ambulation and transfer to chair activities. I have often wished we had a restorative aide who would walk with patients and help them up to a chair, rather than spending time and money for a PT to do it. As for productivity, it's a hot topic. Our facility calculates it by dividing the number of units billed that day by the number of possible units. For example, in my 10 hour day, the max number of units I could get if I was 100% productive would be 40. So I divide the number of units I got that day by 40 to get my percentage of productivity. My facility has a productivity goal of 70%, and we have no tech to use to help us with the time consuming tasks like searching for equipment or setting up rooms. I'd be curious to know what other acute care settings have as productivity goals.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Gian
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
17 december 2014, 05:25:13
AUTHOR'S IP LOGGED
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