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Applicants must submit one letter of reference from a Physical Therapist or a healthcare professional within rehabilitation environment (ie: MDA summer camp, Special Olympics, PT, PTA, OT, COTA, SLP, ATC, etc.), one letter from a Professor that can speak to the student's graduate level academic readiness, and one additional letter of reference from a community member. Examples for the third letter of reference can be from an employer, co-worker, healthcare professional, physical therapist, coach or college/university professor. Please ask your recommenders to email your recommendations to admission@mountunion.edu.
Assume you were a student physical therapist assigned to work with your clinical instructor (CI) and a level one metropolitan hospital. You have noticed that hectic schedules seem quite normative day to day. You and your CI have worked thus far on ways to economize the way you spend time with patients. In a busy environment, he believes this helps optimize your PT efficiency and effectiveness. Your primary assignment for this rotation has been meeting outpatient needs. Today as you enter the outpatient waiting room to your new 1:00 evaluation, you observe that your scheduled patient has a translator sitting with him. The demographics and diagnosis on the intake sheet suggests that English is his second language and he has sustained a close head injury. As you approach, the patient seems distracted and is not able to focus on you. When he is focused, his attention is directed entirely toward the translator, awaiting her instruction and feedback. The translator tells you he is not sure about whether to wear a mask, and is unclear what the purpose of the visit is. As you introduce yourself and begin to direct him toward the PT gym, he seems somewhat hesitant to proceed. But the translator does not offer further information to you. You can perceive, just from your introductions, that everything is taking considerably longer than usual. You are becoming a bit worried as you already feel behind where you think you should be in terms of patient management. You are contemplating whether you can make up for lost time by talking to the patient and translator in the hallway on the way to the gym to add to your perceived pressure as you make your weight amongst the foot traffic to the gym. To add to your perceived pressure, as you make your way among the foot traffic to the gym, you bump into your CI. He points out that he happened to notice that your next patient had arrived early. Naturally, you always seek to meet both the needs of the CI’s expectations and the needs of each of the patients, but this case is really challenging your skills. Given the scenario and it’s demands: how would you regroup, prioritize your delivery of care, work with the translator and try to provide competent care to your patient as you undertake assessment and care? How does your strategy economical use of time factor into meeting the patients holistic needs? Defend your reasoning as needed as needed.
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Electronic Document Delivery Mount Union only accepts electronic documents that come from legitimate sending institutions and through the following delivery services: Naviance, Parchment Exchange, eScrip-Safe, or studentclearinghouse.org. The Office of Admission will only evaluate electronic documents sent through these recognized services. If prompted for a delivery email address, admission@mountunion.edu should be used in order for Mount Union to retrieve the electronic documents and use them as acceptable credentials.
Mail Official transcripts may be mailed from the issuing academic institution directly to the University of Mount Union, Office of Admission, 1972 Clark Ave., Alliance, OH 44601.