How many session physiotherapis deal in the shift ?

[Fyzzio]

Hi,
agree with all that gcoe said.
For hospital work you also need to consider that
a) most of them these days offer a weekend service/ shifts for respiratory and orthopaedic patients and
b) most have an on-call rota (= after hours call out service) for respiratory clients

The policies for weekend and on-call criteria and working hours for these services will differ in different hospitals.

Regards,
Fyzzio

[oabny001]

Hi!!here in Botswana what we normally do is that all follow up appointments in outpatient are booked in for 30 minutes!!new patients generally take longer, upto 45 minutes.

With inpatients the time slots are not that strict, depending on which ward you are working in.You generally tend to see more orthopaedic pt's in an hour compared to medical or surgical patients...

generally speaking i would say 15 follow up pt's in outpatients will be a good number, what does everyone think?

[muhana85d]

Thank you for all your answer

Here in Palestine I work 6h in shift in pediatric hospital
5 patients each session 30 to 40 min most of case cerebral palsy
and neurological case and this in outpatient clinic
and sometime I work at inpatient, we have inpatient clinic may have daily 3 to 6 patients most of them need chest physiotherapy.

I get 400$ and we work streat morning and one day weekend ( friday)

In your country what the role Is it like us ?
Please if some one could tell me how is work and what the average of patient deal ?

[Fyzzio]

Hi muhana,
your post is a little difficult to understand.

Do you see 5 patients in each 40min session? Or do you see 5 patients a day for 40 minutes each?
Which currency is you $?

In NZ, a full-ime job = 8 hours/ 5 days (Monday - Friday).
For most hospitals, an additional weekend day (Saturday or Sunday) is compulsory.
We get 4 weeks annual leave.

In private practice = outpatients, sessions can be anywhere from 15 minutes to 30 minutes long, occasionally, 45 minutes are allowed. This gives you anything between 15 - 25 patients.
On a rehab ward, sessions are often generally 45 minutes long = 5 - 6 patients.
Inpatient wards are variable, it depends on what the patient needs (sometimes the documentation takes longer than the actual treatment ), but commonly, around 8 - 10 patients are seen. On top of this are team and ward meetings and time for in-service training etc.
In the Community setting, you usually see 4 -5 patients in an 8 hour day.

Hope, this explains the situation here a little better.

Regards,
Fyzzio

[muhana85d]

Hi Fyzzio

I working every day 5 patients ( cerebral palsy ) treatment session

passive streching, strengthening, passive ROM ex's and general activities

such as rolling, sitting, crawlling and standing and that' most.


Thank you very much "Fyzzio"

Your answer was what I need