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Ingrid Parry1, Lisa Forbes, David Lorello
1From the *Department of Occupational and Physical Therapy, Shriners Hospital for Children, Northern California, Sacramento, California; †Occupational Therapy Department, Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba; ‡Burn Rehabilitation Department, Arizona Burn Center at Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix; §Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Hope Valley; ‖Department of Surgery, North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, Chapel Hill; ¶Department of Occupational Therapy, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Loma Linda; #Physiotherapy Department, Villa Medica Rehabilitation Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; **Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado, Denver; ††Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; ‡‡Occupational Therapy Department, Care One, Livingston, New Jersey; §§Occupational Therapy Department, Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio; ‖‖Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; ¶¶Department of Rehabilitation Therapies, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; ##Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; and ***School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Abstract:
The Burn Rehabilitation Therapist Competency Tool (BRTCT) was developed in 2011 to define core knowledge and skill sets that are central to the job performance of occupational and physical therapists working with burn patients during acute hospitalization and initial rehabilitation. It was the first national effort to provide standards that burn centers could use for the training and evaluation of a BRT performance. The American Burn Association Rehabilitation Committee recently expanded the tool to include long-term rehabilitation and outpatient care in order to more fully represent all of the stages of care in which patients with burn injury receive therapy. Thirty-six burn centers contributed competencies, 17 rehabilitation experts participated in a systematic Delphi questionnaire process, and eight representatives from seven additional burn centers validated the tool. The revised BRTCT, called the BRTCT-2, includes four new practice domains and 28 new competency statements. The expanded tool provides a common framework of standards for performance for occupational and physical therapists working with patients throughout the full spectrum of burn care.
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