Practical tips for a Home Health Clinician-Physical Therapy

A Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist and Speech Therapist’s guide to home health care.

What you’ll learn
What is Home Health Care
Working as a home health team. Interdisciplinary co-ordination when you do not meet face to face
Types of Home Health Visits
A day in the life of a home health physical therapist: Pros and Cons
Requirements
No prior Home Health experience needed
Description
In this course Arwa Motiwala, a licensed physical therapist shares her experience and knowledge as a home health physical therapist. She has more than 5 years of working as a home health therapist and overall a decade of experience being a physical therapist.

This course will be useful for any clinician out there who is thinking of working in the home health setting. “I have also shared some information which I wish I knew when I was just starting out”, Arwa Motiwala, PT.

This course can be taken by a physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, physical therapy assistant, an occupational therapy assistant and students.

This course has been divided into 6 sections

1. Introduction

2. What is Home Health?

3. Home Health Team

4. Types of home health visits

5. Pros & Cons

6. Typical Flow of the day

7. Equipments that you would need

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

None

Arwa is the founder of Heal Physical Therapy, an outpatient based mobile physical therapy and wellness practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been a physical therapist for over a decade now and has had the opportunity to work in a variety of different setting but most of her experience is has been in the Home Health Setting. She is extremely passionate about helping older adults overcome their fear of falling so that they can continue to live an active and a healthy lifestyle. When not working Arwa loves talking to her family in India, going on hikes with her husband and her almost 3 years old daughter and trying foods from different cultures.

Who this course is for:
New Graduates
Experienced physical therapists who are considering home health as a side hustle or as a full time career
Physical Therapists/Physical Therapy Assistants
Speech Therapists
Occupational Therapists/Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants
Foreign Trained therapists looking to get to know more about home health system in the US