This single, revolutionary resource prepares readers to function effectively in a variety of physical medicine positions. It covers all of the concepts, skills, and procedures that they need to know. The book's "multi-occupational" approach will boost readers' employability, since hospitals and health care facilities are now employing multiskilled personnel. Readers will be prepared to capably fill any of the following positions: Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation Assistant, Sports Medicine Assistant, Physical Therapy Aide ...
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This single, revolutionary resource prepares readers to function effectively in a variety of physical medicine positions. It covers all of the concepts, skills, and procedures that they need to know. The book's "multi-occupational" approach will boost readers' employability, since hospitals and health care facilities are now employing multiskilled personnel. Readers will be prepared to capably fill any of the following positions: Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation Assistant, Sports Medicine Assistant, Physical Therapy Aide/Assistant, Chiropractic Assistant, Personal Fitness Trainer. Coverage provides important background information on anatomy and physiology, medical disease processes, medical terminology, medical ethics and legal aspects...plus valuable employment and job-seeking advice, certification and licensing guidance, and administrative, supervisory, and leadership concepts. Performance objectives, new terms, and abbreviations at the beginning of each chapter make it easy for readers to assimilate the content that follows. Review questions and a summary at the end of each chapter assist readers in evaluating and strengthening their grasp of the material. Excellent photographs portray real students, patients, staff, and health care facilities, illustrating the concepts and skills found in the text. Line art and drawings complement these photographs to help make every point clear. A Teacher's Resource Guide includes a complete training curriculm, lesson plans, reference and resources lists, vocabulary words, teaching methodologies, hands-on competency sheets and evaluation forms, role-playing activities, and quizzes, tests, and test-bank - to help educators derive the maximum pedagogical value when using this resource as a textbook, and Transparency masters.
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