21st Century Skills

In the career I would like to pursue, I am going to deal with a variety of people of different ages and different cultures.  With physical therapy, I will be interacting with these people on a daily basis and will have to take into account their background, and their cultures.  In way of doing this, I must be able to get along and communicate with others through different cultures.  For instance, if I had a patient from a different culture outside of America, and if I had an acquaintance, or even if I didn’t, I could research that patient’s culture to build a deeper connection and make them feel more comfortable within the clinic. Also, being in an environment like in a physical therapy clinic, there could be some confrontation between coworkers, or even an employee and patient.   Having a skill like being about to solve “complex, multidisciplinary, open-ended problems”, I can benefit the workplace and benefit both parties involved in the confrontation by coming up with a solution to the problem that makes everyone happy.  By doing so, coworkers will get along better or employees and patients can get along better by switching the patient to a different physical therapist assistant.  By possessing traits such as these in the 21^st century, it is very crucial since a lot of our economy is still in “uncertainty”.  These traits help ensure the business owner, physical therapist and physical therapist assistants and the patients that come in for physical therapy.  

Shelby Bryant