Documentation: Reporting Skill and Progress Part 4

Presented by Carole B. Lewis

Documentation: Reporting Skill and Progress Part 4

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Video Runtime: 55 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 16 Minutes

This course is Part 4 in a five-part series on documentation with a focus on reporting skill and progress and how you can get the best out of your documentation. This course documents how to show skill as a therapist with low-level patients. The low-level patient from Part 3 returns to perform her first full treatment session after initial evaluation. The home exercise program is reviewed at the end of the session, with recommendations for how the patient can incorporate some of the exercises into her daily functional tasks.

This is course 4 in a series of five. Below are all the courses in the series.

Meet your instructor

Carole B. Lewis

Dr. Carole Lewis has worked in home health, long-term care, acute hospitals, rehabilitation departments and outpatient clinics. She started a private practice in Washington, D.C., in 1981 and continues to work as a clinician. Dr. Lewis received her two master’s degrees in healthcare management and gerontology from the…

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Chapters & learning objectives

Application to Actual Cases: Lower-Level Treatment

1. Application to Actual Cases: Lower-Level Treatment

This chapter revisits the low-level patient from Part 3 of this series to review the home exercise program prescribed after her initial evaluation. The patient performs more balance exercises and is taught proper positioning and timing for muscle stretching. TheraBand exercises to improve muscle strength are introduced.

Examining Gait and Endurance

2. Examining Gait and Endurance

This chapter works on various aspects of gait training with the patient, including incorporating the patient's goal to dance, to increase step length.

Home Exercise Review

3. Home Exercise Review

This chapter reviews the home exercise program with the patient and explains incorporating the exercises into daily functional tasks and activities.