PHYSIOTHERAPIST
MED CARE HOSPITAL PVT.LTD
Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months
I supervise 7 therapists and 4 support staff. I have to balance my managerial responsibilities while carrying a full treatment caseload.
I WORKED IN SAUDI ARABIA AS PHYSIOTHERAPIST IN INTERNATIONAL REHABILITATION AND PHYSIOTHERAPY CENTER.I HAVE SCFHS LICENSE WITH BLS
Physiotherapist
Waris Hospital Pvt.Ltd.
Kanpur,
Uttar Pradesh India
• Responsibilities are to assist in the care of patients with Respiratory diseases (i.e. Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, Cystic Fibrosis, COPD, Emphysema, Lung Cancer etc.)
• Meeting patients and making a clinical assessment based on a combination of factors such as range of movements, age, case-history, patient feedback and response to specialist assessment techniques.
• Treating patients using a variety of specific techniques such as join manipulation and soft tissue massage.
• Educating patients as to beneficial exercises to be performed in their own time.
• Teaching patients how to use movement aids such as callipers and walking sticks.
• Writing up detailed notes for the purposes of handover to other specialists or GPs and keeping patients' records up to date.
• Using specialist equipment such as T.E.N.S. machines to treat patient symptoms.
• Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, and aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
• Provide emergency care, including artificial respiration, external cardiac massage and assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, and medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.
• Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, and blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.
• Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses and other health care professionals to manage patient care.
• Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
• Inspect, clean, test and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.