Physical Therapy Student Fact Sheet

Johns Hopkins Hospital
Physical Therapy Clinical Education

Fact Sheet

 Dress Code :

Students should wear either street clothes with a lab coat or scrubs. Scrubs do not have to be any specific color. No open toe shoes are allowed while performing patient care.  Please refer to the infection control policy on hand hygiene for specifics regarding artificial fingernails.

Hours :

Students work the schedule of their CI which may be 8, 9, or 10 hour days and includes weekends and holidays for acute care staff. The department is open 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM M-F, 8:00 AM - 4:00PM weekends and Holidays.

Parking:

 The first day you should part in the Orleans Strret Garage. You will be charged $10.00 and given a parking pass for the first day during hospital orientation. Parking on satellite lots is $65 per month and an addiitonal $20 for the transponder which is refunded at the end of the affiliation. Daily parking runs $4.00 per day on the satellite lots .  You can sign up for parking your first day.

  Physical Therapy Referrals:

The hospital has an electronic provider order entry system called POE.  Many floors are currently using this system, those not on the system yet call in referrals to the department or on the service pagers.

Safety:

Patient and staff safety is a high priority for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The hospital has an online system called Patient Safety Net (PSN). Any safety issues related to patients (falls etc.), patient related equipment malfunctions, or sevice issues are reported electronically.  Your CI will show you how to do this.  If you are injured on the job or have an exposure you should immediately report it to a supervisor and your CI. Employee/student related injuries and exposures are not reported online in Patient Safety Net (PSN).

Affiliating schools:

Many of our students are interested in which colleges and universities have clinical affiliations with us.  Each year we accept 23 to 30 full time affiliations and several part time affiliations from local colleges and universities. Listed below are the colleges and universities with whom we have contractual agreements.

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