United States Physical Therapy Practice Acts

Bellarmine University PT

Project Description:

This project was created by and for the students in the School of Physical Therapy at Bellarmine University in Louisville KY.

Students will research different aspects of Physical Therapy Practice Acts in the United States and present the information based on his/her analysis.  This project is one of the requirements in the PT 685 Professional and Legal Issues Course to partially fulfill the following objective:

Discuss issues related to Kentucky Physical Therapy Practice Act and compare to practice acts of other states, as well as the APTA Model Practice Act.

Course Instructors:

Dr. Elaine Lonnemann & Dr. Beth Ennis

Course Dates

1. March - April 2010
2. March - April 2011
3. March-April 2012

Instructions

After reading over these instructions, you can begin creating content related to the topic you choose. You can start by adding general descriptive content about the disorder that could be in narrative and/or bullet format. The editing tools above allow you to edit the page much like a Word document. You can easily add links to other websites using the link icon above (Globe with chain link icon). Here are some of the links you could add: 

• Medical sites related to the disorder
• Video/photos related to the disorder
• Links to abstract of research in Pubmed/Medline

In the initial stage, think of this as notes or resource area on the topic. Therefore, it is best to add as many quality resources as possible. In later stages, students and faculty will edit the content to highlight the most appropriate resources and to get the content in a more professional looking format.

A template for the article pages which contains sub-headings headings for the disorder has been provided, please follow the template for uniformity of content.

Articles

Below are links to the articles created during this project.