Licensure Flashcards
Conventional Question: How can we promote healthy behaviors?
Health Equity: how can we target dangerous conditions and ensure healthy spaces and places?
Conventional Question: How can individuals protects themselves against health threats?
Health Equity: How can community organizing and alliance building help create health policies that protect the public good?
misconceptions: personal responsibility
poor health stems from ppl making unhealthy choices. we can encourage people to exercise and eat right, but it’s up to them
misconceptions: unfortunate but not unjust
heirarchies are everywhere. life isn’t fair, and differences in health will always be with us
misconceptions: nothing can be done
health inequites arise from structural inequities in society- what can we do?
Cultural Congruence and Racism
- pt input is ambiguous and often misunderstood
- care provider must act efficiently make decisions based on prior knowledge/experience
- compounded when pts are ethnically or linguistically different
- provider lacks knowledge of cultural values, norms, health beliefs/behaviors, communication style
- value-based decisions = racism
social determinants
- social, economic, environmental
- where you live
- what you make
- race
Practice Act
passed by state legislature
-defines who can call themselves PT and what they can do, how it is to be done
Rules and Regulations
- more detailed interpretation of practice act
- can’t be in conflict with practice act
- periodically revised
State Board of PT examiners
- enforce compliance with law
- issue licenses/renewals
- investigate complaints & discipline
- 4 PTs, 1 PTA, 1 MD, consumer (vacant), admin staff
What is the purpose of the law?
- protect consumer
- protect profession
Legal and moral agreement you make with the state, your peers, and your patients when you accept license to practice
RESPONSIBILITY WITH PRIVILEGE
Relationship of Licensure Law to other rules
- Code of Ethics
- Reimbursement
