The Library will purchase material at the Instructional Level (2), Research Level (3), and Exhaustive Level (4) for the library's collection in support of the following degreed program:
Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT)
Specific selection criteria concentrate on, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Anatomy & physiology of body systems
- Professional issues
- Evidence-bases practice
- Formulating clinical questions
- Methods of obtaining & appraising evidence
- Clinical education
- Patient education
- Legal, ethical, & professional requirements
- Clinical decision making
- Patient evaluation, intervention, & outcomes
- Patient care & physical, psychosocial, financial, environmental factors
- Case studies
- Diagnostics
- Pharmacology
- Medical imaging
- Electroneuromyography
- Licensure process & preparation for licensure exam
- Patient care skills & documentation
- Communication skills
- Health promotion & wellness
- Infection control
- Patient rights
- Pathology
- Tissue inflammation & repair
- Infection
- Degenerative processes
- Aging process
- Review case studies and relevant research
- Functional Neuroanatomy
- Research in physical therapy
- Research & Statistical methodologies
- Literature review critique
- Developing research proposals
- Analysis & assessment of clinical practice patterns
- Examination techniques
- Neuroscience - Pediatric, Adult, & Geriatrics
- Cardiopulmonary
- Therapeutic tissue mobilization, light, heat, cold, ultrasound, hydrotherapy, compression, electrical currents, traction, & isokinetics
- Patient care and spinal cord injuries and complicating factors such as age, malnutrition, pain, infection, vascular compromise, obesity, diabetes, HIV, & allergies
- Management issues
- Basic management theories
- Principles & practice of health care delivery system
- Reimbursement resources & issues
- Internal & external forces impacting health care delivery
- Musculoskeletal – Spine, lower & upper extremities
- Teaching in the Health Professions - teaching & graduate instructional assistants