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October/November 2008 PTThe Official Magazine of thePriority Illinois Physical Therapy Association Inside: EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT The Tie That Binds Call for 2009 IPTA Award Nominations Guidelines for Student Finance ...and more! PREST STD US POSTAGE PAID BRAINERD Physical Therapy ō Sports Medicine ō Aquatic Therapy F.I.R.S.T.™ Work Conditioning/Hardening ō Hand Therapy Your Work. Your Life. Your Balance. Your Work: Are you interested in joining a team ō One-to-One Care ō Evidence-Based Medicine recognized for comprehensive ō Customized Mentorship Programs ō Patient-Centered Friendly Environment ō Management & Leadership Curriculum one-to-one care? ō Company Training & Education Center At ATI, clinicians are encouraged to provide the quality of care ō Generous Continuing Education Fund that patients deserve. ATI’s unique Company culture focuses on ō Company Growth Opportunities creating a friendly and encouraging environment to provide ō Internal CEU & Certifications customized and comprehensive one-to-one care. We believe ō Professional Development that our employees are our biggest asset. As we focus on indi- ō Career Path Programs vidualized care for all of our patients, we also focus strongly on individualized attention to all of our employees, ensuring a Your Life: broad range of benefits. ATI has recently been recognized for its ō Medical Insurance & Prescription Plan cutting-edge efforts for patients and employees: ō Dental Insurance & Vision Discount 2008 “Best Places to Work in IL” by the Business Ledger ō Flexible Spending Account 2008 “Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For” ō Dependent Care Account 2007 “Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For” 2007 “Business of the Year” by Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce ō Long Term & Short Term Disability 2006 “Best PT Practice in Nation” by ADVANCE Rehabilitation Magazine ō Life Insurance ō 401 (k) Plan Your Balance: ō Full-time & Part-time Positions ō Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays ō Fringe Benefits & Discounts ō Team Building Events ō Philanthropic Efforts: ATI Foundation To Join ATI’s Team of Professionals E-Mail Resumes to [email protected] www.ATIPT.com Illinois Physical Therapy Association • www.ipta.org CONTENTS Features: From the Editor An excerpt from Employment Contract: By Jennifer Ryan, PT, MS, DPT, CCS The Tie That Binds 5 FERPA: FAQs for Clinicians 9 Call for 2009 IPTA Award Nominations 12 This issue is for students. Books 18 I remember when I was a Student Portfolios 22 student. Keeping You Connected: Your Navigation to www.IPTA.org 25 Guidelines for Student Finance 30 his issue is for everyone since we are all students, whether we are practitioners or in our formal professional training. We are all encouraged to be reflective, News Flash: Tlifelong-learners to enhance our professionalism, our abilities as clinicians and to Michael Zumpano Promoted to IPTA further our career goals. The breadth of resources that we offer in this issue are designed Member Services Coordinator 20 to address your needs at many stages of your career. It will be a good exercise (no pun The Illinois Chapter is Moving! 20 intended) for you to undergo before the November career fair that IPTA will be hosting. APTA Urges Medicare to Improve More details on that event to follow in this issue as well as our cool new website www. Fee Schedule Rule for 2009 20 IPTA.org. The Editorial Board of PT Priority again assembled some great articles for you, and APTA and FSBPT Discuss How to the IPTA Ethics Committee also made a contribution. The Ethics Committee article is Better Collaborate 20 a tool to help therapists who work in the school systems to understand what rules and ‘Know Your Costs’ Before Setting Fees, regulations are unique to their practice setting. Also in this issue we hope to help you Accepting Contracts 20 to see how developing a portfolio can help you to both gain an appreciation for all of OIG Report Calls for Increased your accomplishments as well as help you to see the areas where you should focus your DME Documentation Review 20 future continuing education goals. This feature, along with some book reviews, can offer Speak Your Mind 21 you a perspective on your career review that may shape how you design that portfolio. I made a portfolio about four years ago and found that it was not difficult to assemble Columns and Departments: once I committed to make it. Now I look forward to using the ideas in these articles to From the Editor 3 enhance and update my own portfolio. There is much news and other tools within the issue for you to peruse and learn from President’s Message 4 but this is not the only source. Considering that one of the expectations of Vision 2020 Community: is to have all physical therapists obtain their doctorate in physical therapy or another Welcome New Members 11 terminal degree, this newsletter can only begin your process towards that goal. Last year’s issue for October and November had many resources for you to tap into that you IPTA Calendar 14 may want to revisit in the archives of PT Priority on www.IPTA.org if you are considering Dateline 16 further formal education. As we consider ourselves students on a day-to-day basis as we look up diagnoses as we meet patients with diseases that we have not studied since our formal education, we gain ideas of what continuing education courses we need to attend to complement our knowledge. See this charge as an opportunity to take in some new information and seek out other professionals to help you to assimilate the information Illinois Physical Therapy Association into your own practice; then pass it on. n 300 E. 5th Avenue Station, Suite 430 Naperville, IL 60563 www.ipta.org Tel: 630-571-1400 Fax: 630-571-1406 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS E-mail: [email protected] ABC CEUs, Inc. .....................................26 Creative Rehab ..........................Back Cover A Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association PT PRIORITY is the official magazine of the Illinois Academy of Lymphatic Studies .................17 Fitness Together ........................................8 Physical Therapy Association. 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Who helps the therapist who failed subtlety that require the experience of someone who has spent many to renew their license on time and is now scrambling to set things hours of in-depth study of the PT and other practice acts, or a close-up right? Who helps the therapist who is caught in a sticky, poten- knowledge of state or federal regulation, or other areas of professional tially unethical or illegal practice situation and needs an independent, practice. We answer those questions too, because we are colleagues. knowledgeable third party colleague as a sounding board? Who Soon, because we are all members of this collegial body, we will share assists a therapist who needs to undergo a “remedial program” before this insight with all members, through the members-only password- being allowed to take the exam a fourth time, but has no contacts or protected areas of the IPTA website. And when in the future, a mem- resources to help put such a program together? Who helps the PT or ber calls our office with a vexing professional issue, if the answer is PTA colleague caught in a difficult intra-departmental conflict. I can not in the established FAQs, we’ll identify the people or resources to report unequivocally that IPTA is there, and has been there, to help find the answer. That’s what professional colleagues are for! such members! I have personally been involved in all these cases, Collegiality also applies to the big professional issues of the day. and I know of numerous board members who have done the same. The email traffic among physical therapist volunteers who are Perhaps you have not had your hour of need when you were des- Chapter and