PHT 1200L - Basic Patient Care Laboratory

Health Science Department

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 92
Effective Term Summer 2025 (650)

Requisites

Prerequisite PHI 1600 and
Prerequisite HSC 1531 and
Pre- or Co-requisite PHT 1200 with a minimum grade of C and
Prerequisite computer competency met.

Course Description

This is a laboratory course in which students will practice activities and modalities basic to the care of patients in health agencies. The focus is the development of manual dexterity with patient safety and comfort in mind. The college laboratory will be utilized for practice demonstration.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate competence in implementing selected components of interventions identified in the plan of care established by the physical therapist.
    1. Position a simulated patient effectively, safely and appropriately to implement selected components of interventions and tests and measures identified with a selected pathology. Interventions include:
      1. Biophysical Agents: cryotherapy, hydrotherapy, superficial thermal agents.
      2. Application of Devices and Equipment: parallel bars, tilt table, Hoyer Lift, walkers, crutches, canes.
      3. Manual Therapy Techniques: passive range of motion and therapeutic massage.
      4. Vital signs: pulse, blood, respiration, temperature.
    2. Implement selected components of interventions in the plan of care established by the physical therapist for patients with simple conditions. Interventions include:
      1. Biophysical Agents: cryotherapy, hydrotherapy, superficial thermal agents.
      2. Application of Devices and Equipment: parallel bars, tilt table, Hoyer Lift, walkers, crutches, canes.
      3. Manual Therapy Techniques: passive range of motion and therapeutic massage.
      4. Wound Management Techniques: isolation techniques, and sterile techniques.
    3. Apply safe body mechanics techniques during all phases of patient treatment.
    4. Teach proper body mechanics to a simulated patient for bed mobility, transfers and gait training.
    5. Instruct a simulated patient in wheelchair mobility strategies for propulsion on level and uneven surfaces.
    6. Instruct a simulated patient in transfer activities, gait patterns and basic balance routines for patients with generalized weakness, one-sided or paralysis, and bilateral lower extremity paralysis.
    7. Instruct a simulated patient on how to properly ambulate with a cane, crutches, and a walker on level and uneven surfaces.
    8. Apply basic modalities, including massage, with the patient’s safety and comfort as the focus.
    9. Illustrate safe utilization of the tilt table.
    10. Perform an appropriate and safe therapeutic massage to the back, neck, and extremities using proper effleurage and petrissage techniques within patient tolerance.
    11. Perform passive, active assistive, and active range of motion techniques.
  2. The student will demonstrate competence in performing data collection skills essential for carrying out the plan of care.
    1. Administer appropriate test and measures (before, during and after interventions) on a simulated patient with a simple condition for the following areas:
      1. Aerobic Capacity and Endurance: measure standard vital signs; recognize and monitor responses to positional changes and activities (e.g., orthostatic hypotension, response to exercise).
      2. Assistive Technology: identify the patient model’s ability to care for the device; recognize changes in skin condition and safety factors while using devices and equipment.
      3. Gait, Locomotion and Balance: determine the safety, architectural barriers, status, and progression of a simulated patient while engaged in gait, locomotion, balance, wheelchair management and mobility in the home, community, and work environments.
      4. Integumentary integrity: detect absent or altered sensation; determine normal and abnormal integumentary changes; indicate activities, positions and postures that aggravate or relieve pain or alter sensations, or that can produce associated skin trauma and recognize viable versus nonviable tissue.
      5. Joint Integrity and Mobility: detect normal and abnormal joint movement.
      6. Pain: administer standardized questionnaires, graphs, behavioral scales, or visual analog scales for pain; recognize activities, positioning and postures that aggravate or relieve pain or altered sensations.
      7. Posture: determine normal and abnormal alignment of trunk and extremities at rest and during activities.
      8. Mental Functions: identify a patient model’s impairments in mental status, including levels of consciousness.
    2. Identify effects of superficial heating and cooling interventions on a patient’s ventilation, respiration and circulation given a case scenario.
    3. Measure and fit all gait equipment and wheelchairs accurately for a simulated patient.
    4. Describe the components of normal and common abnormal gait patterns.
  3. The student will accurately record documentation of interventions and data collection from simulated patient interactions.
    1. Document relevant information about basic interventions and data collected in SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) note format for conditions, interventions and test and measures covered in this course.
    2. Identify the sections of the SOAP note identifying and utilizing common medical abbreviations.
    3. Illustrate a basic SOAP note.
    4. Describe the necessity for documentation in the healthcare industry.
    5. Discuss the format for documentation in relation to reimbursement and HIPAA guidelines.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 78% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Revised 8/15/83 Revised 8/84 Revised 7/85 DBT 5/16/85 Effective Session 19851 DBT 12/12/85 Effective Session 19861 Revised 7/88 Reviewed C&I 10/23/90 Lab Fee Effective Session 19901 DBT 10-18-94 Effective Session 19942 C&I 4/28/98; DBT 5/29/98 Effective Session 19981 C&I 10/9/01, BOT 11/20/01, Effect 20021 (Sess I, 2002). C&I 10/25/05, BOT 11/15/05, Effective 20061(0370). C&I 11/10/08, BIT 12/16/08, Effective 20091(0415) C&I 9/16/2011, BOT 10/2011, Effective 20112(0450). C&I Approval: 09/16/2011, BOT Approval: 10/20/2011, Effective Term: Spring 2012 (450). C&I Approval: 11/20/2015, BOT Approval: 03/15/2016, Effective Term: Summer 2016 (515). C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Spring 2018 (540). C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2018 (550).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Summer 2025 (650)

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