exam 2

Question 1

role of PT?

Answer 1

movement experts who improve quality of life through prescribed exercise, hands-on care, and patient education.

Question 2

role of PTA?

Answer 2

to directly assist the PT in the delivery of services

Question 3

examination

Answer 3

obtaining and reviewing the patients history

Question 4

diagnosis

Answer 4

what is wrong with someone

Question 5

prognosis

Answer 5

the plan to help the diagnosis

Question 6

evaluation

Answer 6

interpreting and making informed decisions regarding the information and data collected

Question 7

guide to physical therapist practice

Answer 7

tool used to decide which interventions are most important for each person to whom they provide service

Question 8

direct supervision

Answer 8

PT is physically present and immediately available for direction and supervision.

Question 9

general supervision

Answer 9

PT is not required to be on site for direction and supervision but must be available at least by telecommunication.

Question 10

direct personal supervision

Answer 10

the PT or, where allowable by law, the PTA is physically present and immediately available to direct and supervise tasks that are related to patient/client management.

Question 11

responsibility

Answer 11

the active acceptance of the roles, obligations, and actions of the pta

Question 12

duty

Answer 12

the commitment to meeting ones obligations to provide effective physical therapy services to patients

Question 13

integrity

Answer 13

is the steadfast adherence to high critical principles or professional standards

Question 14

PT/PTA collaborations

Answer 14

PTA should be expected to regularly progress intervention intensity so that the patient may improve at the fastest rate possible.

Question 15

practice acts

Answer 15

developed to protect the public and ensure the competence of those providing the services.

Question 16

rules

Answer 16

give further clarity to the statements in the statutes.

Question 17

apta

Answer 17

The American Physical Therapy Association is committed to promoting the physical therapist as the professional practitioner of physical therapy and promoting the physical therapist assistant as the only individual who assists the PT in the provision of selected physical therapy interventions.

Question 18

fsbpt

Answer 18

state board of all 50 states are apart of FSBPT. FSBPT has developed a model practice act, considered to be a “preeminent standard” for states to follow as they attempt to update and clarify their practice acts through legislative change.

Question 19

apta( patient rights)

Answer 19

• To be treated with respect and dignity in a nondiscriminatory manner
• To receive safe, appropriate care
• To have procedures explained in understandable language
• To know the identity of their health-care providers
• To have some type of choice in who is providing their care
• To refuse treatment or to receive a second opinion
• To have their privacy and confidentiality maintained and protected
• To file a complaint or grievance

Question 20

integrity

Answer 20

is the steadfast adherance to high ethical principles or professional standards

Question 21

nonmaleficence

Answer 21

the concept of doing no harm

Question 22

beneficence

Answer 22

doing good for other. Caregivers strive to do this in their daily work.

Question 23

fidelity

Answer 23

keeping commitments made to others

Question 24

moral sensitivity

Answer 24

being able to identify a situation with ethical overtones

Question 25

moral motivation

Answer 25

distinguishing which moral factors are more relative then others

Question 26

moral judgment

Answer 26

being able to analyze a situation and make an appropriate decisions

Question 27

empathy

Answer 27

a process in which providers go beyond just being able to put themselves in their patients’ situations to being able to perceive the patient’s frame of reference

Question 28

empowerment

Answer 28

the process of enabling patients to take an active leadership role in their health-care decisions.

Question 29

autonomy

Answer 29

the right of people to have choices and to make their own decisions regarding those choices

Question 30

veracity

Answer 30

the obligation to be truthful in words and actions

Question 31

patients rights/patients welfare issues

Answer 31

issues related to confidentiality, informed consent, sexual misconduct of providers, discrimination against patients, and using human subjects in research.

Question 32

informed consent

Answer 32

• Explanation of the findings of the examination/evaluation, identification of the physical therapy diagnosis, and description of the interventions that will be delivered to treat that diagnosis.
• Opportunity for the patient to ask questions about the examination/evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, or proposed interventions
• A formal request for permission to proceed with the plan of care