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Professionalism in physical therapy:...

Gersh, Meryl Roth.

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Professionalism in physical therapy: Exploring the clients' perspectives.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Professionalism in physical therapy: Exploring the clients' perspectives./
作者:	Gersh, Meryl Roth.
面頁冊數:	375 p.
附註:	Adviser: David Whitfield.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-02B.
標題:	Health Sciences, Education. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3302738
ISBN:	9780549493655

Professionalism in physical therapy: Exploring the clients' perspectives.
Gersh, Meryl Roth.

Professionalism in physical therapy: Exploring the clients' perspectives. - 375 p.

Adviser: David Whitfield.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Gonzaga University, 2008.

During the past 50 years, the physical therapy profession has evolved from an allied health occupation in which physical therapists cared for patients under the direct prescription from a physician, to an autonomous doctoring profession. This professional evolution provides both enhanced practice opportunities and more importantly, an awesome responsibility to offer optimal client-centered service with highest commitment to professionalism, ethical practice, and leadership.

ISBN: 9780549493655Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017921
Health Sciences, Education.

Professionalism in physical therapy: Exploring the clients' perspectives.
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520 $a In recent years, an overarching focus of the physical therapy profession, medicine, and other health care professions that profess a rekindled commitment to client-centered care has been the definition, development, enrichment, and inculcation of professionalism among practitioners and students. Recently developed or updated documents and codes that set the professional standards for the core values, behaviors and practice in these professions echo themes of professionalism reflected in the foundational principles of servant-leadership: service, collaborative partnership, integrity, respect, advocacy, and empowerment of those served. Yet these contemporary guidelines have been developed exclusively by the experts within the professions. To date, the clients' perspectives on professionalism have neither been explored nor given voice.
520 $a The purpose of this study was to explore the essence of professionalism in physical therapy from the perspective of physical therapy clients. Through in-depth guided interviews with twelve clients who had recently completed physical therapy care, this phenomenological study describes how each of them experienced physical therapy; the characteristics and behaviors of their physical therapists and their experiences that contributed to the totality of the professional experience and to their perspectives on professionalism. Through their complex, layered narratives, the participants revealed that physical therapists shared professionalism through behaviors demonstrating genuine, reflective listening and responding, caring, respect for individual differences, trust, professional excellence, the empowerment of clients as "first among equals" in goal setting, education, and care, and advocacy for improved access to health care services. Deliberate and considerate reflection on the participants' evocative stories revealed three fundamental themes of professionalism: (a) compassion and caring, (b) trust, and (c) empowerment.
520 $a A comparison of the participants' perspectives on professionalism in physical therapy to those of physical therapists revealed considerable agreement. The themes that gave voice to the participants' perspectives on professionalism are reflected in the Core Values of Professionalism in physical therapy as well as in the contemporary literature on professionalism and the foundational principles of servant-leadership. Conspicuously absent from the list of Core Values is client empowerment. The researcher proposes naming empowerment as the eighth Core Value of Professionalism in physical therapy and inviting client representation on task forces and focus groups that develop, review, and revise the core documents that guide professional conduct and practice. Suggestions for future research on professionalism are also offered.
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