Roles and Responsibilities of a Physiotherapist in Healthcare

This report discusses the roles and responsibilities of a physiotherapist in healthcare, providing examples of their work. It also explores the strengths and barriers to inter-professional working and proposes recommendations to improve the healthcare experience for patients like Barbara.

Assessment
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Describe roles and responsibilities of professional that have chosen Physiotherapist, providing
the examples................................................................................................................................3
Identify strength and barrier to inter-professional working of Physiotherapist when working
with multi-disciplinary team........................................................................................................4
Propose and justify two recommendations that could be implemented by Physiotherapist to
improve Barbara healthcare experience.......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession which assists individual’s people to restore,
maintain and increase their strength, movement, overall well-being and function.
This report will discuss about the role and responsibilities of Physiotherapist as
healthcare profession in which providing the better quality of treatment service. This
documentation will discuss about the strength and barrier to the inter-professional working of
Physiotherapist when coordinate with multi-disciplinary team. Furthermore, it will propose and
justify recommendation that help for physiotherapist to improve Barbara healthcare experience.
MAIN BODY
Describe roles and responsibilities of professional that have chosen Physiotherapist, providing
the examples
Initially, Barbara have coordinated with Emergency department and consult with
Physiotherapist which may provide the best quality of healthcare treatment services.
Physiotherapist may have a unique and expanding role to play in global world. There are
different ways that Physiotherapist can participate in healthcare work beyond direct patient care.
In additional, it is extending into different activities such as rehabilitation programmes (Harman
and et.al., 2019). In this way, physiotherapist profession has been increasingly involved into
different international community regarding the healthcare development.
Physiotherapist help to maintain health for Barbara of all age, helping patient to manage
their pain and prevent disease. The profession is always encouraging the development, facilitate
recovery which enabling people to stay in working. Another way, it helps for patient to provide
best quality of healthcare treatment facilities and services.
Wellness and increased the quality of life through education, specialized programming
and holistic approach in term of healthcare. As per evidence, it has been supported the roles and
responsibilities of Physiotherapist in primary healthcare.
Roles
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 Assessment, diagnosis, treatment which include individualized exercise programs and
providing the better education for patient with musculoskeletal complaints.
 Physiotherapist help for falling the prevention program which include outreach activities
among social community.
 It will provide the facility to linkage with program for those with chronic condition or
situation such as pain management.
Responsibilities
 Physiotherapist have a necessary responsibility to make an effective treatment plans and
address the condition or need of patient.
 It will be assisting trauma patient with how they can control their mental condition or
situation.
 Providing the education to patient, community and family members on prevent injuries,
lives a healthy lifestyle.
For Example-
As per given study, Barbara is a patient that mainly suffered from mental health issues
while physiotherapist have a skill or competencies to support in term of healthcare service. It
provide the continuum of treatment care and conduct the better illness prevention, rehabilitation
program. Physiotherapist can assess or treat Barbara across the life span who have illness, injury
and disability affecting the neurological systems.
Identify strength and barrier to inter-professional working of Physiotherapist when working with
multi-disciplinary team.
Inter-professional collaboration occurs when two or more Physiotherapist professions work
together to achieve desirable goals and objective. It is mainly used as means for resolving a
variety of complex problem or issues (McCarroll, van't Riet and Halter, 2020). Physiotherapist
also have a responsibility to promote their profession with recent evidence based knowledge.
in additional, professional should have recognised the need for physiotherapy services.
This will help for utilising them but needed to establish the better inter-professional collaboration
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with multi-disciplinary team (MDT). Furthermore. This type of inter-professional collaboration
allows participants to achieve together more than they can do individually.
For Example- Barbara is a patient that suffering from major complex health issue or
problem. This is the reason whereas Physiotherapist establish the collaboration with multi-
disciplinary team.
Strength
Improve patient care and outcome- when Barbara as patient walk into emergency department
complaining the complex health issue. Physiotherapist checks her out, followed by medical
specialist, who order to perform all essential tests and wait on the result.
Physiotherapist along with care team meeting, hospitals are encouraging team, patient
that provide all essential primary care (Hayward, Sellheim and Chesbro, 2019). Another team
members help for physiotherapist to handle the inter-professional collaboration in term of
healthcare. This can be possible when hospital communication technology use to create an
effective collaboration seamlessly and securely.
Inter-professional collaboration in healthcare helps to prevent medication errors, improve
the patient experience and also deliver the best quality of patient result or outcome. The
Physiotherapist that will help for improving the coordination with patients.
Barrier
Lack of training, problem discovery and resolution- It is one of the most common barrier of
inter-professional working in the Physiotherapist, which may have experience when working
with different multi-disciplinary team (MDT). This type of barrier will be developed the effect
on modification of physiotherapist professional roles. Typically, Physiotherapist have been
conducted the plan of exercise program or event for patient (Walton, 2020). But at certain point,
it may increase barrier of discovery, resolution. Lack of training will reduce the efficiency and
performance during working with multi-disciplinary team. Physiotherapist profession was
relatively low attitude towards service that may have negatively impacted on the healthcare
therapy or services.
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For Example-
An example of inter-professional collaboration would be a Physiotherapist professional,
nurse and other multi-disciplinary team working together to carry out an effective plan in context
of healthcare service. in order to improve a Barbara health status. As per considered the strength
is to handle the coordination between different team members, providing the better facilities and
services. On the other hand, barrier of inter-professional working that will effect on the patient’s
when a lack of training so that it is very difficult for individuals.
Propose and justify two recommendations that could be implemented by Physiotherapist to
improve Barbara healthcare experience.
According to given video, it has been identified three area of practice relevant to
Physiotherapist, which help for providing the Barbara healthcare experience.
 As per recommendation, Evidence based practice (EBP) is integration of best research in
term of clinical aspects while giving the more importance, value of patient. This type of
EBP practice will help for describing the different steps and discover recent problem of
Barbara. Physiotherapist should use this Evidence based practise (EBP) to identify the
current health status of patient, being able to recognise health care profession has
upgraded its practices (Snowdon, Cooke and Taylor, 2020). Furthermore, Medical
professional has suggested to use strengthening exercise that was strongly discouraged by
intervention approach. This will help for establishing the trust, loyalty and believe of
Barbara with Physiotherapist. The excessive effort would be increasing the spasticity,
contraction and associated reactions.
 The recommendation that enable patient to communicate effectively with Physiotherapist
without face to face meeting. It will require to improve the electronic communication
between patient and health service provider. It may support to enhance the
communication links Barbara while changing the evidence based practices. Mostly, it
may depend upon the Physiotherapist where how they will use an efficient technologies
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in order to positive impact on Barbara experiences regarding treatment, intervention or
healthcare services.
Apart from that include all essential legal, ethical, theoretical and regulatory in
Physiotherapist professional. Ethical knowledge helps to justify what is correct or not. It is
always promoting the respect for and rights of health service users. Sufficient exposure to the
knowledge of ethics in Physiotherapist, which has been contribution to handle the ethical
responsibilities in proper manner. Fortunately, when professional curriculum sufficiently
addressing the legal as well as ethics aspects.
Healthcare professionals have always been encouraged to update their knowledge and
maintain clinical competence. For that reason, it has been suggested to the Physiotherapist for
changing current healthcare system (French and et.al., 2020). Thus, it will be increasing the
pressure from direct care providers to create positive impact on Barbara’s experiences.
One way to support healthcare professional in dealing with these ethical challenges, which
has been through development of clinical ethics. In additional, it will be implementing formal
legal or regulatory bodies to perform best action or discussion with patient. This will help for
identifying appropriate idea to establish a strong relation with Barbara and make a good
decision-making regarding healthcare services.
Moreover, the function of Multidisciplinary team (MDT) is always bring together a group of
medical professionals, which help for identifying the patient’s treatment plan. According to
view, MDT team became aware about the healthcare approach that will support for improving
current health status of patient. Additionally, specialities focused on the creating an effective lists
that support intervention by MDT (Penner and et.al., 2020). Medical professional is mainly
focused on the improving patient adherence and other type of compliance to effective therapies.
This is not only create a good impression in front of Barbara and also impact on the positive
experience in term of healthcare service.
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CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has concluded that Physiotherapy plays important role in
context of healthcare services which providing the best quality of medical treatment on the basis
of need or requirement. In this report, it has been described about the significant role and
responsibilities of Physiotherapist as healthcare profession for improving current health
condition or situation of patient. This documentation has summarised about the strength and
barrier to the inter-professional working of Physiotherapist when establishing coordination with
multi-disciplinary team. It can be proposed and justified the recommendation that support for
physiotherapist to improve Barbara healthcare experience.
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REFERENCES
Book and Journals
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Harman, K. and et.al., 2019. Physiotherapy: an active, transformational, and authentic career
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