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Training and assessment of physiotherapy assistants
journal contribution
posted on 2018-04-24, 10:06 authored by Ruth Parry, Catherine D. VassThis paper discusses some of the issues relevant to the role and training of physiotherapy assistants. It describes the processes of role definition, assessment and training of one particular assistant, developed in the context of a larger research study. A small survey of senior physiotherapists' views on task delegation, training and working with assistants was conducted, using semi-structured interviews. The method and findings are described; broad agreement between the physiotherapists was found. A training and assessment package was then developed and implemented. The training was specifically related to treatment of the upper limb of acute stroke patients. While delegation to assistants is part of everyday practice for many physiotherapists and the training of these staff a professional obligation, the structure and support to do so are often lacking. In the context of the description of a particular case, this paper provides some insights and points of interest for clinicians involved in training and task delegation to assistants.
Funding
The rehabilitation of arm function study is a three-year project funded by the NHS Research and Development Programme on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
PhysiotherapyVolume
83Issue
1Pages
33 - 40Citation
PARRY, R. and VASS, C.D., 1997. Training and assessment of physiotherapy assistants. Physiotherapy, 83 (1), pp.33-40.Publisher
Elsevier © Chartered Society of PhysiotherapyVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
1997Notes
This paper is closed access.ISSN
0031-9406Publisher version
Language
- en