Online Course
Practical Decision Making
Practical advice to enhance your clinical decision making

1.5-2 hours

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Nick Rainey
Course instructor

Nick is a physical therapist with a passion for teaching and mentoring and evidence-based management of his patients

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Introduction

In clinical practice, health professionals constantly make decisions about referrals, appointment scheduling, and interventions. These decisions strongly impact a patient's overall care plan and outcome. These decisions are often not straight forward. In this course, Dr. Nick Rainey offers insight on how he approaches clinical decision making in his own practice.

Aims

This course aims to guide clinicians through practical decision making in clinical practice.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, discussions and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Video
  2. Reading activity
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1.5-2 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1.3 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • discuss patient referrals and appointment scheduling
  • discuss diagnosis and classification in relation to clinical decision making
  • compare the use of exercise and manual therapy in a clinic setting

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews
This course is really good. It gets you thinking about the critical decisions physiotherapists must make when managing their patients. It has helped me consider what is best for my patients, improve my time management, and find the best way to make the right decisions.
Opio Charles
Physiotherapist
Uganda
The course reviews how critical clinical decision-making is and how relevant it is to our clinical duties. It x-rays the vital difference it is going to make in the management of patients. It emphasizes the need for collaboration with other healthcare providers and imaging professionals in patient management.
Uchenna Okonkwo
Physiotherapist
Nigeria