Skilled Nursing Home Analysis
The first facility I have chose is inpatient in a hospital. About 72 percent of PTA's work in this kind of care. Most of what they do here is acute care. Acute care is physical therapy for short-term patients as a result of illness, recovery from trauma, or surgery. Here, PTAs work with other professionals such as physicians, PAs, nurses, OTs, social workers, and speech and language pathologists. As soon as this patient is medically stable they can be discharged. The PT's and PTA's work with these patients a few times a day until they are safe to return to their home. The other facility I have chose is a nursing home or a skilled nursing facility. Here, PTA's care for long-term patients who are usually elderly. Other health care professionals