COLLABORATION RESPONSIBILITY COMPASSION INTEGRITY
BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS
Behavioral Expectations and Values
for or devotion to the interest of patients/ clients, thus assuming the fiduciary responsibility of placing the needs of the patient/client ahead of the PTA’s self- interest. • Caring and Compassion: Compassion is the desire to identify with, or sense something about another’s experience; a precursor of caring. Caring is the concern, empathy, and consideration for the needs and values of others. • Continuing Competence: Continuing competence is the lifelong process of maintaining and documenting competence through ongoing self- assessment, development, and implementation of a personal learning plan and subsequent reassessment. • Duty: Duty is the commitment to meeting one’s obligations to provide effective physical therapy services to individual patients/clients, to serve the profession,
Students are expected to demonstrate interest, ability, and aptitude for the responsibilities related to the field of physical therapy from the PTA perspective. When choosing a profession, an individual must be willing to assume the behavioral expectations and values inherent to that profession. This transformation begins in the classroom and laboratory settings with a continuation into the clinical arena. Students are expected to exhibit initiative and interest in learning by actively participating in a variety of learning opportunities. The American Physical Therapy Association has developed a set of Value Based Behaviors for the PTA. The students will utilize the APTA Value Based Behaviors Self-Assessment Tool during the program. These values are briefly described below. • Altruism: Altruism is the primary regard
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