Physical Therapist Assistant Student Assignment

Physical Therapist Assistant Student Assignment

Physical Therapist Assistant Student Assignment

Section III: Becoming a Physical Therapist Assistant Student

Assignment 1 Chapters 8-10 (36pts)

(Must be handwritten and IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Use black ink).

Chapter 8: Managing the learning process

Read Pages 89-94

1) How do I improve retention and comprehension? (3pts)

· Information processing

· Concept formation

· Improving memory and retention

Provide ONE example for each of the above that YOU can apply when studying course material to help you with retaining and understanding the information.

(1 pt. each)

2) What is psychomotor learning?

3) What are the 4 basic skills of learning?

4) What are some indicators that may require you to adjust or withhold a patient’s treatment?

5) What is the difference between novice and expert?

6) Steps to better information processing! (7pts)

Step

Question

Answer

Identify the Key Cues

What is a cue? Give one example.

Organize and Prioritize the Cues

What are some of the categories of patient information? How can this be used to help during an intervention?

Reviewing the Pattern

What is the Guide to Physical Therapy Practice?

Identify deviations from the Pattern

(Read the grey box)

How can you identify a deviation with a patient? What should you do?

Synthesize and Draw Conclusion; for a “plan of action” NOT “plan of care”.

“So what?” What are the reasons you need to know as much information as possible about the patient and diagnosis/ disease progressions?

Mentation and Reflection

Define. Give an example for each.

Lifelong, self directed learning

Why is this important? What is “our” biggest resource to infromation with all aspects of Physical Therapy?

Chapter 9: Will I do well enough?

Read pages 97-104

1) (10pts) Complete weekly planner (attached) & fill out comments box with any “activities” or questions you are unsure of where they will fit in your schedule as an SPTA at FNU.

(1 pt. each)

2) You have not slept all night and you barely ate breakfast. You are about to begin a Practical Lab Exam, you have a “real patient” and 35minutes to complete all your tests/ data collection on them.. Your professor is watching you and the camera is pointing right at you… you panic! How do you overcome this? How do you control your performance anxiety?

3) What are two things you can control in order to help manage your stress during the program?

HONESTY IS (10pts)

· Identify YOUR problem; (highlight all that apply)

Effort

Time Management

Limited Clinical background

Unable to see big picture

Career doubts

· NOW TAKE ACTION! Answer honestly!

Life style- do you have a healthy lifestyle?

Study habits- What works for you?

Use your resources- What helps you the most?

What is your relaxation response or method? – FIGURE THIS OUT NOW & PUT IT INTO PRACTICE!

Table 9-4; Which pattern of thinking are you? (List all that apply)

 

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.