Wisconsin Administrative Code
Physical Therapy Examining Board
Chapter PT 5 - Physical Therapist Assistants, Unlicensed Personnel, And Students
Section PT 5.02 - Supervision of unlicensed personnel
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง PT 5.02
Current through August 26, 2024
(1) A physical therapist shall provide direct, immediate, on-premises supervision of unlicensed personnel at all times. The physical therapist may not direct unlicensed personnel to perform tasks that require the decision-making or problem-solving skills of a physical therapist, including patient examination, evaluation, diagnosis, or determination of therapeutic intervention.
(2) In providing direct, immediate, on-premises supervision, the physical therapist shall do all of the following:
(a) Retain full professional responsibility
for patient related tasks performed.
(b) Be available at all times for direction
and supervision with the person performing related tasks.
(c) Evaluate the effectiveness of patient
related tasks performed by those under direct supervision by assessing persons
for whom tasks have been performed prior to and following performance of the
tasks.
(d) Routinely evaluate the
effectiveness of patient related tasks performed by those under direct
supervision by observing and monitoring persons receiving such tasks.
(e) Determine the competence of personnel to
perform assigned tasks based upon education, training, and
experience.
(f) Verify the
competence of unlicensed personnel with written documentation of continued
competence in the assigned tasks.
(g) Perform initial patient examination,
evaluation, diagnosis, and prognosis, interpret referrals, develop and revise
as appropriate a written patient treatment plan and program for each patient,
and create and maintain a patient record for every patient the physical
therapist treats.
(h) Provide
interpretation of objective tests, measurements, and other data in developing
and revising a physical therapy diagnosis, assessment, and treatment
plan.
(i) Direct unlicensed
personnel to provide appropriate patient related tasks consistent with the
education, training, and experience of the person supervised. Direction should
list specific patient related tasks, including dosage, magnitude, repetitions,
settings, length of time, and any other parameters necessary for the
performance of the patient related tasks.
(j) Limit the number of unlicensed personnel
providing patient related tasks under direct supervision to a number
appropriate to the setting in which physical therapy is administered, to ensure
that all patients under the care of the physical therapist receive services
that are consistent with accepted standards of care and consistent with all
other requirements under this chapter.
(k) The total number of physical therapist
assistants providing physical therapy services and unlicensed personnel
performing patient related tasks under supervision may not exceed a combined
total of 4. This number shall be reduced by the number of physical therapists
and physical therapist assistants holding temporary licenses who are being
supervised under s. PT 3.01(6).
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