Role Creep Teaches Your Team Their Time Isn’t Valuable

Role creep in a PT clinic: a therapist folds laundry at end of day while documentation waits on the cart

A therapist finishes a double-booked afternoon, wipes down the tables, folds a load of laundry, takes out the bathroom trash, checks the voicemail because the front desk got buried, and then gets asked if she can help plan the staff birthday lunch. That slow pile-up has a name: role creep. None of those tasks sounds […]

Clinical Director Admin Time Needs a Visible Standard

A staff PT reads a late schedule change at the front desk after the clinical director moved a patient

A staff PT sees a cancellation at the end of the day. For a minute, the day looks like it may end on time. Then the clinical director moves their last patient onto the staff PT’s schedule and heads out. Once, the team may let it go. Twice, they start comparing notes. If it happens […]