9 Montana Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) Jobs
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Required Skills/Experience:
Experience treating all listed hand-therapy diagnoses is required.
Experience with assessment and reassessment, treatment progression, recognizing when to notify the hand surgeon of issues, and splinting/casting is required.
Special Requests:
RTO requests must go through the manager.
Unit Details:
Average daily volume is 10 patients.
Patients range from children/adolescents to geriatrics, but are mostly adults.
Common cases include carpal tunnel, tendon issues, overuse injuries, trauma, post-surgical cases, flexor tendon repairs, Dupuytren disease, wrist fractures, finger deformities, cyst removals, and trigger fingers.
Visits are about 45 minutes per patient; evaluation visits are about 1 hour.
Burn care and dry needling are not performed.
The clinician will be the sole hand-therapy OT; other general OTs are in the office.
An on-site hand surgeon is available.
Unit-specific equipment includes ultrasound/e-stim, fluidotherapy, paraffin wax, and Volt communication.
Shift & Scheduling:
Monday-Friday schedule.
No weekend rotation.
No call.
The clinic is closed on major holidays.
Floating Requirements:
May float to the orthopedic clinic to assist if the OT department has low census.
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