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Bibliography	Malone, Daniel, et al. "Physical Therapist Practice In The Intensive CareUnit: Results Of A National Survey." Physical Therapy 95.10 (2015): 1335. Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File. Web. 30 Jan. 2016.
Annotation:	This article contains various studies on the training of Physical Therapists in the intensive care unit. It describes how there are several different types of training for PT’s in the ICU, but only in foreign countries. There have been few instances in the United States where training is clear. It is said that the safety of the patients relies on the skill of the Physical Therapist, and proper training should be required for them to operate in the ICU.
Potential Quotes:	“In the United States, however, there is a paucity of information describing how ICUbased physical therapist services are implemented…” (2) “The purpose of this study was to characterize current physical therapist practice, specifically, practitioner demographics, ICU staffing patterns, methods of training for ICU practice…” (2)
Assessment:	This article is credible because it is written by a group of PT’s that are serious about their careers. They believe that for the safety of all patients training should be necessary, and they used a variety of experiments and studies to test, and reveal that it is a problem.
Reflection:	This article gave me insight on other areas that physical therapists study. I was not informed that PT’s operates in the ICU before reading this article. I will be able to use this article in the research of my capstone project and for future reference in my field of study.

1/5 Assignment

There has been a lot of things driving my research this year. The biggest one is the thought that Physical Therapy might be a part of most of my life. The more I know and participate in now, the easier it will be in the future. My current essential question is -What drive's a person to become a physical therapist? It has changed a little since the beginning of the year, mainly because I will be able to get a little more information out of this one. The good thing is that I can still get the answer out of the new one that I wanted from the last one (In blog post labeled essential question). And for my final project I intend on creating some handouts as well as a type of presentation for further enhancement. For the real inquiry part of the project  I will most likely interview one of my mentors or a family member. I can not wait to dive deeper into this career field!