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    The document outlines the core values that guide physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) in providing high quality physical therapy services. The eight core values are accountability, altruism, collaboration, compassion and caring, duty, excellence, integrity, and social responsibility. These values define the diverse roles and responsibilities of PTs and PTAs and emphasize placing patient needs above self-interest through teamwork, empathy, commitment to quality care, ethical standards, and responding to societal health needs.

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    The document outlines the core values that guide physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) in providing high quality physical therapy services. The eight core values are accountability, altruism, collaboration, compassion and caring, duty, excellence, integrity, and social responsibility. These values define the diverse roles and responsibilities of PTs and PTAs and emphasize placing patient needs above self-interest through teamwork, empathy, commitment to quality care, ethical standards, and responding to societal health needs.

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    APTA - Core Values Endorsement

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    The document outlines the core values that guide physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) in providing high quality physical therapy services. The eight core values are accountability, altruism, collaboration, compassion and caring, duty, excellence, integrity, and social responsibility. These values define the diverse roles and responsibilities of PTs and PTAs and emphasize placing patient needs above self-interest through teamwork, empathy, commitment to quality care, ethical standards, and responding to societal health needs.

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    Last Updated: 9/20/19 
    Contact: [email protected]  
     
    CORE VALUES FOR THE PHYSICAL THERAPIST AND PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT HOD P06‐19‐48‐55 
    [Amended: HOD P06‐18‐25‐33; Initial HOD P05‐07‐19‐19;] [Previously Titled: Core Values: for the Physical 
    Therapist] [Position] 
     
    The core values guide the behaviors of physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) to 
    provide the highest quality of physical therapist services. These values imbue the scope of PT and PTA activities. 
    The core values retain the PT as the person ultimately responsible for providing safe, accessible, cost‐effective, 
    and evidence‐based services; and the PTA as the only individual who assists the PT in practice, working under 
    the direction and supervision of the PT. The core values are defined as follows:  
     
     Accountability 
    Accountability is active acceptance of the responsibility for the diverse roles, obligations, and actions of the 
    physical therapist and physical therapist assistant including self‐regulation and other behaviors that 
    positively influence patient and client outcomes, the profession, and the health needs of society.  
     
     Altruism 
    Altruism is the primary regard for or devotion to the interest of patients and clients, thus assuming the 
    responsibility of placing the needs of patients and clients ahead of the physical therapist’s or physical 
    therapist assistant’s self‐interest.  
     
     Collaboration 
    Collaboration is working together with patients and clients, families, communities, and professionals in 
    health and other fields to achieve shared goals. Collaboration within the physical therapist‐physical therapist 
    assistant team is working together, within each partner’s respective role, to achieve optimal physical 
    therapist services and outcomes for patients and clients. 
     
     Compassion and Caring 
    Compassion is the desire to identify with or sense something of another’s experience; a precursor of caring.  
     
    Caring is the concern, empathy, and consideration for the needs and values of others.  
     
     Duty 
    Duty is the commitment to meeting one’s obligations to provide effective physical therapist services to 
    patients and clients, to serve the profession, and to positively influence the health of society.  
     
     Excellence  
    Excellence in the provision of physical therapist services occurs when the physical therapist and physical 
    therapist assistant consistently use current knowledge and skills while understanding personal limits, 
    integrate the patient or client perspective, embrace advancement, and challenge mediocrity.  
     
     Integrity 
    Integrity is steadfast adherence to high ethical principles or standards, being truthful, ensuring fairness, 
    following through on commitments, and verbalizing to others the rationale for actions.  
     
     Social Responsibility 
    Social responsibility is the promotion of a mutual trust between the profession and the larger public that 
    necessitates responding to societal needs for health and wellness. 
     
    Explanation of Reference Numbers: 
    HOD P00‐00‐00‐00 stands for House of Delegates/month/year/page/vote in the House of Delegates minutes; 
    the "P" indicates that it is a position (see below). For example, HOD P06‐17‐05‐04 means that this position can 
    be found in the June 2017 House of Delegates minutes on Page 5 and that it was Vote 4. 
     
    P: Position | S: Standard | G: Guideline | Y: Policy | R: Procedure 

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