Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates achieve professional competencies as currently defined by their respective profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice
2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Program Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate entry-level knowledge for managing patients across the lifespan by the final clinical rotation.
2. Demonstrate entry-level knowledge & skills including selecting, performing, documenting and interpreting appropriate tests, measures, diagnoses, prognoses, interventions, and practice patterns, and entry level supervision of support personnel.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates exhibit professional behaviors such as cultural sensitivity, integrity, respect, compassion, and altruism, and demonstrate excellence in delivery of service and a commitment to their profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Exhibit professional behaviors in all interactions
2. Exhibit a commitment to their profession through professional membership or participation in professional activities, and by interrelating with other professionals
3. Identify and evaluate the impact of culture and diversity on health beliefs, practices, and actions
4. Apply and/or demonstrate leadership principles and strategies in organization or professional settings

Program Outcomes:

1. CAPTE 7B2: Student participates in professional and community organizations that provide opportunities for volunteerism, advocacy and leadership.
2. CAPTE 7D21: Provide physical therapy services informed by cultural humility* that address primary,* secondary, and tertiary* prevention, health promotion, and wellness to individuals, groups, and communities.
3. CAPTE 7D23 Participate in practice management that may include marketing, public relations, regulatory and legal requirements, risk management, staffing, and continuous quality improvement.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively communicate in oral, written, and technical formats.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Express concepts in writing using proper grammar and stylistic guidelines
2. Appropriately document health information according to professional standards
3. Demonstrate critical thinking by synthesizing, organizing, presenting, and/or disseminating information following established guidelines at a level appropriate for the target audience
4. Adapt appropriate interactions and/or strategies in order to accommodate diverse audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. CAPTE 7C2. Student demonstrates skills and abilities to educate and communicate in a manner that meets the needs of the patient, caregiver, and other health care professionals.
2. CIET III.IV.1-2 Student communicates verbally with precise and appropriate terminology and in a timely manner with patients and families/caregivers, and with health care professionals.
3. CIET III.IV.3-5. Student communicates in writing with precise and appropriate terminology and in a timely manner when completing patient documentation, documentation to professionals, and when creating home programs and patient instructions.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates collaborate with health care team members and other stakeholders to facilitate the attainment of common goals.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify roles and responsibilities of team members in the provision of patient/client/community care
2. Identify opportunities and/or participate with others to set and achieve goals

Program Outcomes:

1. 7D18 Student participates in patient-centered interprofessional collaborative practice.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically evaluate, and practice professional, ethical and legal decision-making.

Objectives: Within their scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Maintain and/or adhere to professional ethics and legal requirements
2. Articulate ethical and legal decision making practices (process by which an ethical/legal decision was made)
3. Apply ethical and legal principles to Identify breaches of professional ethics or legal requirements

Program Outcomes:

1. CAPTE 7B1: Student practices in a manner consistent with the APTA Code of Ethics and the Core Values for the Physical Therapist.
2. CAPTE 7B3. Student practices within the legal framework of one’s jurisdiction(s) and relevant federal and state requirements.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates incorporate educational strategies into their roles.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify relevant educational content for a target audience
2. Plan, implement and/or evaluate an educational program appropriate for a target audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. CAPTE7D13 Educate others, using teaching methods that are commensurate with the needs of the learner, including participation in the clinical education of students. Incorporate cultural humility and social determinants of health when providing patient and/or caregiver education.
2. CIET IV.IV.3. Student incorporates patient/family education into treatment.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates apply methods of scientific inquiry and disseminate findings.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Propose a problem/topic and appropriate methods to investigate it
2. Use systematic search techniques to find and critically appraise research and other sources of evidence
3. Summarize and disseminate findings to appropriate audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. CAPTE 7C1 Students will have learning experiences in contemporary physical therapy knowledge and practice including evidence-informed practice. interpretation of statistical evidence, clinical reasoning and decision making, and scholarly inquiry.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically analyze, and solve a variety of challenges.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize and respond appropriately to various situations within their discipline regarding clinical, cultural, psychosocial, quality improvement and/or administrative problems
2. Design and/or implement solutions using best evidence and/or practice guidelines
3. Assess outcomes

Program Outcomes:

1. Adapt to the individual needs of patients, clients, families/caregivers and consumers of service.
2. CIET III.III.3. Student utilizes available resources for problem solving.
3. CIET IV IV 6. Student modifies intervention according to patient/client responses to treatment.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively access, manage and use scientific, health care and/or patient/client information while respecting the ownership and privacy of sources.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify and access sources of evidence/information to inform the decision making process for scholarship or patient care
2. Analyze evidence/information for quality, economic, legal, and social implications
3. Demonstrate proficiency in information privacy regulations, e.g. HIPPA and PHI
4. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Program Outcomes:

1. 7D19 Use health informatics* in the health care environment.
2. CIET III.II.1. Student demonstrates compliance with all regulations regarding patient privacy, confidentiality, and security (e.g. HIPAA, DOH, State PT practice act.)
3. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Schoolwide Outcome:

SHP graduates create a safe practice environment for themselves and their patients.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies
2. Demonstrate skills to create safe environments and respond to health emergencies

Program Outcomes:

1. CAPTE 7D23 Student is able to assess, document, and minimize safety risks of individuals and the health care provider, including designing and implementing strategies to improve safety in the health care setting as an individual and as a member of the interprofessional health care team, and follows the safety policies and procedures of the facility.
2. CIET III.I.1-3 Student follows health and safety precautions (e.g. universal precautions) takes appropriate measures to minimize risk of injury to self and patient.