1. Encourage patients and attend to their physical needs to facilitate the attainment of therapeutic goals.
2. Explain medical instructions to patients or family members
3. Train patients to use orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices.
4. Appropriately communicate with patients, including those who are cognitively impaired or mentally ill.

1. Observe patients' attendance, progress, attitudes, and accomplishments
2. Record and maintain information in client records. record vital statistics or other health information.
3. Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments by observing patients during treatment reporting progress to physical therapist.

1. Prepare patient treatment areas for use, including preparing and maintaining work area, materials, and equipment and educational supplies.
2. Maintain equipment or furniture to keep it in good working condition, including performing the assembly or disassembly of equipment or accessories.
3. Stock treatment or patient care supplies.
4. Inventory treatment supplies or equipment.

1. Measure patient's range-ofjoint motion, body parts, or vital signs to determine effects of treatments or for patient evaluations.
2. Instruct, assist and safeguard patients in therapeutic activities.
3. Assist patients to dress, undress, or put on and remove supportive devices, such as braces, splints, or slings. Engage patients in exercises or activities.
4. Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, or heat, light, sound, water, or electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound.
5. Administer traction to relieve neck or back pain, using intermittent or static traction equipment.
6. Hold patients to ensure proper positioning or safety, securing patients into or onto therapy equipment.
7. Fit patients for orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices, adjusting fit as needed.
8. Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, or coordinating treatment.

1. Recognize that problems can be identified, and possible solutions can be generated
2. Define the problem using a variety of strategies
3. Make connections between information gathered and personal experiences to apply and/or test solutions
4. Demonstrate curiosity, imagination and eagerness to learn more
5. Build on personal experience to specify a challenging problem to investigate
6. Engage in novel approaches, moves, directions, ideas and/or perspectives
7. Recognize and describe cause-andeffect relationships and patterns in everyday experiences
8. Investigate to form hypotheses, make observations and draw conclusions
9. Test hypotheses/prototype with planned process for getting feedback
10. Demonstrate a willingness to try new things
11. Demonstrate flexibility, imagination and inventiveness in taking on tasks and activities
12. Innovate from failure, connect learning across domains and recognize new opportunities

1. Accurately recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts and values and how they influence behavior
2. Appropriately express one’s own emotions, thoughts and values and identify how they influence behavior
3. Assess personal strengths and limitations, with a well-grounded sense of confidence, optimism and a ‘growth mindset’
4. Recognize personal characteristics, preferences, thoughts and strengths
5. Pursue opportunities to engage and learn interests
6. Apply knowledge to set goals, make informed decisions and transfer to new contexts
7. Recognize emotional response to ideas that differ from one’s own
8. Regulate reactions to differing perspectives
9. Look for and value in different perspectives expressed by others
10. Resist distractions, maintain attention, and continue the task at hand through frustration or challenges
11. Set goals and develop strategies to remain focused on learning goals
12. Focus on learning goals by employing motivation and familiar strategies for engagement and evaluate progress, making necessary changes to stay the course

1. Recognize how personal actions have had a positive or negative impact on others with feedback as needed
2. Recognize how members of a community rely on each other, considering personal contributions as applicable
3. Follow a process identified by others to help generate ideas, negotiate roles and responsibilities, and respects consensus in decision making
4. Articulate personal strengths and challenges using different forms of communication to express oneself
5. Consider purpose, formality of context and audience, and distinct cultural norms when planning content, mode, delivery and expression
6. Establish goals for communication and plan out steps accordingly
7. Compare attitudes and beliefs as an individual to others
8. Identify and explain multiple perspectives (cultural, global) when exploring events, ideas and issues
9. Plan and evaluate complex solutions to global challenges that are appropriate to their contexts using multiple disciplinary perspectives (such as cultural, historical and scientific)
10. Takes great care with organizational data
11. Does not disclose any kind of personal or sensitive organizational information; understands that all data is confidential
12. Demonstrates honesty and integrity in all interactions. If an error is made, prioritizes minimal impact to the organization over their own reputation

1. Articulate task requirements and identify deadlines
2. Develop and utilize basic task and time-management strategies effectively
3. Demonstrate task-management attributes associated with producing high-quality products including the abilities to: 1) Work positively and ethically 2) Manage time and projects effectively 3) Multi-task 4) Clearly communicate with others
4. Appropriately express a range of emotions to communicate personal ideas/needs
5. Ask questions to develop further personal understanding
6. Demonstrate confidence in sharing ideas/feelings
7. Complete tasks with ongoing support
8. Seek clarity on tasks and needs occasional support
9. Demonstrate skill in assigned tasks and completes with little or no support

1. Begins to use math and literacy skills to inform work
2. Uses math and literacy skills to perform job tasks with frequent checks by supervisor
3. Independently and consistently use math and literacy skills to perform tasks (with occasional checks for quality)

Introduction to career-readiness to prepare students for working in a professional environment: apprenticeship and workplace expectations with a focus on growth mindset.

Skills in common computer applications, effective workplace communication, time management, and conflict resolution.

Orientation training provided to new employees by the employer.

Prepares apprentice to answer patient call signals, signal lights, communicate with patients who need assistance or social and emotional support. Be able to provide medical instructions to patients or family members. Learn how to appropriately communicate with residents including those who are cognitively impaired or mentally ill.

Prepares the student to perform the fundamental skills of the nurse aide. Basic nursing skills, communication skills, restorative services, personal care skills, safety and emergency care issues are covered. Includes knowledge and/or principles of asepsis, OSHA and HIPAA regulations. Ethical behaviors, cultural sensitivity and principles of mental health will be addressed, as well as patient/resident rights. The course applies guidelines related to the professional, legal, and ethical scope of practice of the Practical Nurse, including demonstrating safe performance of all psychomotor skills. Comprehension of medical documentation basics, including retrieving patient charts and workflow patterns. Understanding of current Health Information Technology (HIT) practices.

Teaches apprentice how to record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, oxygen level, respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff. Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds or blood in the urine. Reminds patients to take medications or nutrition supplements. . Apply clean dressings, slings stockings, prosthetic or orthotic devices, under the direction of a nurse, physician or therapist. Provide a range of motion to patients who are comatose, paralyzed, or have restricted mobility. Offload pressure as indicated by turn schedule, follow restorative/therapy plan. Assist nurse or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care. Administer medications or treatments, such as catheterizations, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, or douches, as directed by a physician or nurse.

Teaches students terminology and function of medical equipment used in Physical Therapy Aide settings. Students learn to prepare patient treatment areas for use, including preparing and maintaining work area, materials, and equipment and educational supplies.