Burn Rehabilitation Therapists Competency Tool - Version 2: An Expansion to Include Long-Term Rehabilitation and Outpatient Care

Ingrid Parry, Lisa Forbes, David Lorello, Lynne Benavides, Catherine Calvert, Chen Hsu, Annick Chouinard, Matthew Godleski, Phala Helm, Radha K. Holavanahalli, Jennifer Kemp-Offenberg, Catherine E. Ruiz, Rachel Shon, Jeffrey C. Schneider, Melinda Shetler, Oscar E. Suman, Bernadette Nedelec

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)e261-e268
JournalJournal of Burn Care and Research
Volume38
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Surgery
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Rehabilitation

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