WEEK 1 PTA Class Study Guide Questions and Answers
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WEEK 1 PTA Class Study Guide Questions and Answers
Each state has the right to define the profession of P.T. and regulate its practice. What is this definition known as in state legislation?
practice acts
The American Physical Therapy Association has created guidelines for Physical Therapy...
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Each state has the right to define the profession of P.T. and regulate its practice. What
is this definition known as in state legislation? - answer practice acts
The American Physical Therapy Association has created guidelines for Physical
Therapy Scope of Practice. What does physical therapy include, under these
guidelines? - answer Three components : professional, jurisdictional, and personal.
The professional scope of practice is grounded in the profession's unique body of
knowledge, supported by educational preparation, based on a body of evidence, and
linked to existing or emerging practice frameworks.
The jurisdictional (i.e., legal) scope of practice is established by a state's practice act
governing the specific physical therapist's license, and the rules adopted pursuant to
that act.
Personal scope of practice consists of activities for which an individual physical
therapist is educated and trained and their competence to perform.
Who is allowed to provide physical therapy interventions? - answer Physical
therapist
What is the difference between patient and client? - answer
Who is considered the first 'physical therapist' in the United States? - answer Mary
McMillian
What was the APA? - answer - a principle or body of interrelated principles that
purports to explain or predict a number of interrelated phenomena
- APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in
the United States, with more than 146,000 researchers, educators, clinicians,
consultants, and students as its members.
When was the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) established? - answer
1921
What is the Commission on Accreditation in Education and how does it relate to
physical therapy? - answer CAPTE is an accrediting agency that is nationally
recognized by the US Department of Education (USDE) and the Council for Higher
Education Accreditation (CHEA). CAPTE grants specialized accreditation status to
qualified entry-level education programs for physical therapists and physical therapist
assistants
, What is the Guide to Physical Therapy Practice and what was its impact? - answer -
It's the description of physical therapist practice for use by physical therapist and
physical therapist assistant educators, students and clinicians.
- To describe generally accepted physical therapist practice and to standardize
terminology 2. To delineate preferred practice patterns that will help physical therapists
(a) enhance quality of care, (b) improve patient/client satisfaction, (c) promote
appropriate utilization of health care services, (d) increase efficiency and reduce
unwarranted variation in the provision of services, and (e) promote cost reduction
through prevention and wellness initiatives
- Impact was .......
What is 'evidence-based practice'? - answer -EBP is a process used to review,
analyze, and translate the latest scientific evidence.
-Evidence-based practice includes the integration of best-available evidence, clinical
expertise, and patient values and circumstances related to patient and client
management, practice management, and health policy decision making
What was included in the APTA Vision Statement for Physical Therapy 2020? - answer
The vision included six elements, each containing goals that leadership hoped to
achieve by 2020: direct access, evidence-based practice, professionalism, doctoring
profession, autonomous practice, and practitioner of choice
What is the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy? - answer The
American Physical Therapy Association is an individual membership professional
organization representing 100,000 member physical therapists, physical therapist
assistants, and students of physical therapy. Our association history dates back to
1921.
What is the current entry-level degree required to become a physical therapist? A
physical therapist assistant? How has the education of physical therapists evolved over
time? - answer - Entry level degree for physical therapist is a dpt.
- Entry level degree for a physical therapist assistant is an associates degree.
- In 1936, students only needed two years of education to practice physical therapy. The
requirements increased to a four year baccalaureate degree in the 1960's. By the
1990's it increased again as all programs evolved to a Master's degree.
What are the characteristics of 'Autonomous Physical Therapist Practice' as described
by the APTA? - answer Independent, self determined professional judgment within
one's scope of practice, consistent with the profession's Codes and Standards and in
the patient's/client's best interest
• Responsibility and acceptance of risk for all aspects of the physical therapist
patient/client management
• Ability to refer to and collaborate with health care providers and others to enhance the
physical therapist patient/client management
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