Healthcare is all about sustaining life and enhancing its quality, helping patients to recover from their most vulnerable state. The healthcare industry is therefore a highly regulated and scrutinized sector. Healthcare firms employ a large number of workers in professional and service occupations. Physical therapy is an important field in the healthcare industry and physical therapy assistants are a vital part of this industry. Physical therapy assistants work under the supervision of physical therapists and help with many of the important activities of physical therapists. Their tasks include helping patients with regular exercise programs, evaluating and testing patients, using pain relieving techniques and modalities, assisting with patient mobility, and sometimes even performing massage.
Physical therapist assistants are also employed by various private agencies to provide various personal healthcare services to elderly and disabled persons. These services are aimed at providing care and services to patients in their home environment.
Qualifications for Being a Physical Therapist Assistant
• Minimum one year clinical experience
• License to practice as physical therapist assistant in the state of operation
• Home healthcare experience desirable
Other Requirements
• Strong desire to help others
• Concern for the welfare of patients and clients
• Ability to deal with people from different backgrounds in stressful situations
Benefits Enjoyed by Physical Therapy Assistants
• Health, dental, disability insurance
• Housing facilities
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Bonuses and profit-sharing payments
Advanced research and development in medical technology will continue to improve the survival rate of injured and diseased patients who will need extensive therapy and care. As the elderly population of the world is increasing day by day, the demand for physical therapist assistants is also growing and is predicted to grow for many more years. With improved allied staffs and treatment cost, most of the healthcare firms employ more physical therapist assistants to work under the guidance of physical therapists, rather than having more physical therapists as staff.
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haha. Exactly, and Obama says “Change.” Obama is Bush. Patriot act + Healthcare reform bill = governmental domination of individual liberty.
If you are business saavy you may consider being on the administrative side of healthcare. Physicians are required to bill with special codes called CPT-4 codes that describe services that they provide to patients. There are also codes to describe every diagnosis.
In order for the physicians to obtain payment for services these codes must be submitted in a timely fashion to insurance companies and they must be within the scope of usual practices.
Insurance companies also deny payment to the physicians more often than not and they need people to fight for their money.
Administrators allow physicians to concentrate of helping patients without the nagging concern of redtape and paperwork.
There are also budgeting, managerial and operational issues in healthcare offices or other settings that are handled by these professionals.
You may consider obtaining a masters in heatlh administration. Please refer to http://www.ache.org.
I love some of these comments. People still blaming bush. I’m not a big fan of bush but people open your eyes Obama is spending TRILLIONS not billions. This health bill is over 2,000 pages long. There is so much hidden in this bill it should be illegal in my eyes. Our government cant run a hot dog stand what makes you think they are going to perfect health care.
First, I doubt that healthcare will become universal.
Second, I see no reason why you as a X-ray technician should lose pay…ompare it to salaries in France & other places where they have universal health care.
I am English and now live in California. Like most people I thought that there was a huge tax burden in Britain, but after coming here I now think that's not the case.We pay two forms of tax from our wages:Income tax and National insurance. Your income tax is tax like everywhere else, national insurance pays for your pension and healthcare. I have lived in England all my life up till now and I will fiercely defend our healthcare system, the NHS (national health service). In thanks largely to the effort of our heroic doctors and nurses (and all other staff) the NHS survives….the healthcare is nothing like as bad as people make out, and there are no long waiting lists anymore (now if you're waiting more than six months for routine surgery they'll send you abroad to have it done, paid for of course). No-one pays anything for medical care and the one reason it's under stress (As a healthcare proffesional I know this from experience) is the fact that something built as a national health service is used as a world health service. People come to the UK from all over Europe to take advantage of the NHS and from all over the world. I would like to see treatment restricted to citizens/people who have paid at least 5 years national insurance contributions but at the same time I would never ever want to see anyone, citizen or not, turned away or denied medical care because of money. I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford health insurance in the US but the amount hospitals/doctors charge is disgusting and I don't really understand why people are so opposed to universal health care, can you really put a price on life?
By the way income tax is 20% of anything you earn over about 5 and a half thouse pounds ($11k) and national insurance is 11% of anything you earn over 84pounds a week ($160) And people have the option of private healthcare in england too if they want to pay for it
The same reason my taxes should go up for idiots like you. If I have to pay for your war, you have to pay for my healthcare.
By the way, where were you “fiscal conservatives” when Bush started spending like a drunken sailor?
Actually, that’s pretty much exactly what she said, and no, she doesn’t have a valid point.
An option to consider is traveling overseas for your dental work. I am originally from Los Angeles, but have been living in Monterrey, Mexico for about 2 years now. I have had regular dental visits and am VERY impressed with the quality of the facilities and the doctors. The best part is that dental work is about 50% less expensive here than it is in the U.S! Monterrey, Mexico is just two hours south of Texas, so it is very easy to get to wherever you are. And, you can always combine your visit with a vacation! If this is something that interests you, check out http://www.travelforcare.com a Medical Travel facilitator that will help you with all the details.
sweetheart, you have the right idea. don’t worry about people like sanbo26…. he’s mindless. a fool… one of those 53 million who fell for pretty words… why so upset about anology… sambo? you elected one hell of a flawd one. great post.
why are people so fucking stupid? why can’t afford this bill… and as foer iraq… that’s another issue you’re clueless about. and clearly you wern’t paying attention. then again that’s typical too… of you people. whiny clueless morons who let smiles and ‘dreams’ fill you with lies and ignorance. fuck off.
That would probably be private information. HMO's have fee schedules that list what they allow for certain procedures, but that's probably not available except to providers. They don't "look at information" – they have set schedules, for the most part.
Why would that be important to you in looking for a possible career??
Don't get sick!
well that’s just it.. it can’t be improved upon.. once it’s there it’s there. if you actully know what the fuck your idiotic leaders just passed… you would know how this bill works… it’s a direct tax… and built in a way that ensure lasting, ibncreasing DEBT for decades. act now? what is prioductive won’t even come about for several years, and will be overshadowed by it’s costs. this bill is horrid.
I am from Canada where medical coverage is free for everyone,regardless of whether you work or not.
Since the drug companies became privatized, there have been far, far less cures than when it was government controlled. Drug companies only want symptom relievers, since they will be reused over and over, whereas cures are not needed once the problem is gone. No money in cures. Drug companies are more interested in Marketing. Obscene amounts go into marketing. At least thousands if not millions are spent on just pens, clocks, notepads, lunches, clipboards, and a ton of little practically useless stuff they give away for the sole purpose of having the name all around the dr. You should go in a dr's office and just look at the amount of stuff with a drug name on it. That is only a small fraction. The government should really take back the pharmaceutical industry, that would definitely lower regular health insurance prices.
If universal health care is brought in, it doesn't mean you can't get regular health insurance. Considering how very little the health insurances pay out ($0.67 on a $10 charge) I highly doubt that the doctors income would be impacted negatively.
I think universal health care would be a great thing. And this is coming from someone who would probably have to find a new job. You don't see the people who come in who don't have to money to get seen. People who are already sick, dying, and still getting harassed about payments. There are already tons of people who die because they just didn't have the money for a doctor. What is a couple of days wait to that?
6 months is quite far fetched. I was in the military, and the same type of system ran. Health care was FREE and there were no massive wait times.
The only valid complaint that I have heard is that you would not always be able to see the same doctor. Not exactly a big deal.
It could very well be that some doctors could choose to take more regular health insurance patients, and then you could have one of those for your regular doctor.
As atrocious as regular health insurance is, most doctors take most of them. Why? To boost the number of patients. Universal health care could work the same way.
Universal health care will certainly not stop the advancement of medicine. With a little less fear involved, it may even enhance it. Besides, that sounds an awful lot like you want to believe the US is the only place in the world who has helped medicine. Nope.
Would you give up your career to keep universal health care from coming?
That's how strongly I support it.
well now you can happy, because your kids won’t worry about this debt asshole, your children’s great grandchildren will. why should my taxes go up for idiots on youtube like sambo26?
Hospitals carry liability insurance for their nurses. It is unlikely that a nurse will get sued unless she/he does something very deliberate and intentional to harm a patient.
and you didn’t pay the war fuckhead.