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Management of Physical Rehabilitation Video
FREE with all orders over $50(a $200 value) While supplies last, we are including a full copy of the 2 hour videotape "Managing Physical Rehabilitation" featuring Peter R. Kovacek, MSA, PT with every product order over $50.00.

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Exciting new resources to help you manage better!!

We've worked hard to find or create the best products to help you manage your rehab services. In addition to our full line of management seminars and consulting services, we are very proud to offer these outstanding products. Volume pricing is available on all products. Call or email us for details.

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If you are dissatisfied with any of our products, for any reason, you may return the item in original condition to us within 30 days for a full refund of your purchase price (not including shipping and handling).

Written Resources Available

Physician Rehab Referral Relations Portfolio and Toolkit

This tool kit - developed by Steffes and Associates - offers "out of the box" solutions, techniques and strategies for increasing referrals to your practice that can be implemented immediately without significant financial investment.
The Physician Referral-Relations Portfolio And Toolkit is uniquely developed to position you and your staff in a way that is more professional to physicians. It lets doctors know they are working directly with healthcare colleagues - specialists in their own field - instead of product sales reps.

With the majority of rehab providers relying on physicians for more than 95% of their referrals, the key to growing a successful practice is developing many, quality referral relationships. A task made much easier with the straight-forward information and simple strategies provided in the toolkit.

The Toolkit is comprised of two important elements: training for you and your staff, and templated professional communication materials you can customize as part of your referral education and communication portfolio including - professional announcements, specialty program descriptions and many more.

The entire program is the culmination of many years of personal experience and feedback from private practice owners and referral sources. It includes three no-nonsense and motivating 45-minute inservice video training sessions - each created to empower you and your staff, even if naturally reluctant to perform business development, with the necessary skills to approach physicians as professional colleagues.

Simply put, it is physician relationship-building material developed by and for rehab professionals.

$499.95

Opportunity Favors The Prepared -
A Guide to Facilitating the Development of Professional Behavior

Elements Essential to Developing Professional Behavior
by
Warren W. May, PT, MPH
In Collaboration With
Gwyneth Straker, MS, PT, ABD and Lynn Foord-May, MSPT, M.Ed, CPP, ABD

This manual presents a six-element process for facilitating the development of professional behavior. Each chapter introduces a concept, provides practical guidance and examples of implementation, and summarizes key points. All chapters include a worksheet to stimulate reflection and discussion. The concluding chapter presents the role of faculty and students as the principal agents of implementing the process. Samples of core abilities, self assessment forms, a reflective journal and a retention/dismissal policy are provided as appendices. The format is loose leaf in a three-ring binder to provide for ease of use and inclusion of related materials.

Elements Essential to Developing Professional Behavior
1. Sharing Expectations that are clear, explicit and public.
2. Providing Opportunities to practice and learn expected behaviors.
3. Ongoing Assessment by a teacher or supervisor, by a peer and by oneself.
4. Providing Feedback when coaching, guiding and counseling.
5. Structuring Growth through remediation and enhancement of performance.
6. Imposing Consequences if expected behaviors are not learned and demonstrated consistently at the required level of proficiency.

The process is recursive; always beginning with and returning to clearly stated, explicit, public expectations.

In recognition of the ground breaking work done by the Physical Therapy Program Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all profits from this endeavor will be donated to the Program’s Mary McKinney Edmonds Minority Recruitment Fund.
Manual Description

This manual presents a six-element process for facilitating the development of professional behavior. Each chapter introduces a concept, provides practical guidance and examples of implementation, and summarizes key points. All chapters include a worksheet to stimulate reflection and discussion. The concluding chapter presents the role of faculty and students as the principal agents of implementing the process. Samples of core abilities, forms, policies and an advising approach are provided as appendices. The format is loose leaf in a three-ring binder to provide for ease of use and inclusion of related materials.

Although the description of the facilitation process is focused on faculty and students, by substituting “supervisor” for faculty and “staff” for students, the material and the process can be used effectively in the workplace for staff performance appraisal and professional development.

$49.95

Clinical Competencies for Physical Therapy Personnel

One of the most difficult responsibilities of the clinical director of any facility is to determine whether your staffers are clinically competent. As you prepare for a visit from an accrediting agency, can you document the skill level and professional development of your staff?

The Texas Consortium for Physical Therapy Clinical Education in conjunction with The Texas Physical Therapy Education and Research Foundation has developed “CLINICAL COMPETENCIES FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY PERSONNEL: A Guide to Assessment and Professional Development”.

“CLINICAL COMPETENCIES” is patterned after The Blue MACS, a widely used competency tool that has been utilized by PT students throughout the US. since 1977. “CLINICAL COMPETENCIES” focuses on the skills needed by physical therapy providers (PTs, PTAs, and Aides) to engage in safe and effective clinical practice. “CLINICAL COMPETENCIES” provides the basis for an assessment of each employee’s strengths and weaknesses, and can be incorporated into Total Quality Management and staff education programs. This document is a MUST for all facilities preparing for a visit from an accrediting agency!

JCAHO Desktop Consultant

Written by Angela M. Phillips, PT, this 500-plus page manual will get you through your next survey. You'll save time and feel more confident as you prepare for accreditation. A "must-have" for hospital-based rehab managers. $399.95.

Managing Physical Rehabilitation in a Managed Care Environment.: Written by Peter R. Kovacek, MSA, PT and Kathleen A. "Jake" Jakubiak Kovacek, PT. This advanced book contains a wealth of resources and materials to help you manage in an increasingly difficult managed care environment. (Also available as a workshop) 248 pages, illustrated. $49.95.
Improving Productivity Without Sacrificing Quality in Rehabilitation.: Written by Peter R. Kovacek, MSA, PT An excellent workbook format book to help staff analyze departmental and systems aspects of being more productive without diminishing the quality of care given. (This is also a top workshop topic throughout the country.) $19.95.

Pediatric and Geriatric Competency Assessment Programs: Written by Mary Lundy, MS, PT, PCS. Finally you can easily and cost-effectively comply with JCAHO's age specific competency requirements. Our physical therapy competency assessment programs for staff who work with the pediatric or geriatric population is now available. We provide a review of basic pediatric or geriatric physical therapy knowledge and an assessment tool to demonstrate objective measurement of knowledge for staff that serve children or the elderly in their practice. Perfect for staff training or self-study. $39.95 each or $75.00 for both.

Audiovisual Resources

The Productive Therapist ^©.: 60 minute audiotape with workbook.
Presented by Peter R. Kovacek, MSA, PT. as an outgrowth of the study of high productive versus low productive therapists working side by side in the same clinic. A must for serious managers in all settings. $29.95.

Services

Management Courses Available for Your Organization or Workgroup.

Each of our workshops and all our consulting services are available to bring to your organization. We will adapt them to your specific needs. Internal workshops are among the most cost-effective ways to initiate successful change in your organization and staff.

Organizational Tune-up: Your internal systems can make or break your operations. We can help you identify which of your systems are most likely interfering with your staff's productivity and your success.
Provided by Peter R. Kovacek, MSA, PT. Very beneficial to getting the most out of your existing operations. Typical length 4 days onsite, 1 day offsite with full report. Available as consulting.

Productivity Enhancement: The first step to cutting costs is to get the most out of what you already have. We can show you how. Provided by Peter R. Kovacek, MSA, PT, the definitive expert on physical therapy and rehabilitation productivity. Full examination of your key productivity systems and staff development through our copyrighted "The Productive Therapist" program (see below). Typical length 2-3 days. Available as workshop or consulting.

The Productive Therapist©: The single most effective thing you can do to help your staff be more productive. Based on extensive research with real world therapists, like yours, this program will help you stop telling your staff to be more productive. It will allow you to tell them HOW to be more productive. Typically provided in a workshop format, this half day session has been very well received by managers and therapists throughout the US and Canada. Included in the workshop is The Productivity Quiz that will bring together all the concepts of high productivity for your staff. Most importantly, none of the techniques or concepts will reduce or interfere with the high quality of your services. Guaranteed. Typical length 3-4 hours.


Management Development: In rehabilitation services, it is not uncommon for managers to ascend to leadership positions without an adequate academic or experiential management background. This workshop provides that background to allow the rehab manager to be as successful as possible. This program can be tailored to the specific needs of a single organization and be disseminated over a period of time or offered to a wide variety of individuals from various organizations in a workshop or retreat format. Available as workshop or consulting. Typical length 2-5 days.