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Physical Therapy News, Volume 2, Issue 1, College Of Health Professions
Physical Therapy News, Volume 2, Issue 1, College Of Health Professions
Physical Therapy News
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Service Learning In Higher Education Exercise Science Programs, Wendy Bjerke
Service Learning In Higher Education Exercise Science Programs, Wendy Bjerke
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Introduction: Service learning (SL) describes teaching methods that incorporate student service activities with specific learning objectives. SL has been applied to allied health higher education programs.
Purpose: To determine the applicability of SL to exercise science courses. SL data associated with an undergraduate course in exercise physiology serving a local fire department is examined.
The Special Care Nursery, Linda Kahn-D’Angelo, Yvette Blanchard, Beth Mcmanus
The Special Care Nursery, Linda Kahn-D’Angelo, Yvette Blanchard, Beth Mcmanus
Physical Therapy Faculty Publications
Providing services to high-risk infants and their families in the neonatal intensive care unit is a complex subspecialty of pediatric physical therapy requiring knowledge and skills beyond the competencies for entry into practice. The newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are among the most fragile patients that physical therapists will treat, and detrimental effects can occur as the result of routine caregiving procedures. Pediatric physical therapists (PTs) need advanced education in areas such as early fetal and infant development; infant neurobehavior; family responses to having a sick newborn; the environment of the NICU, physiologic assessment and monitoring; newborn …