APTA & The Profession
This organization advocates for physical therapists, PTAs, and students nationwide.
What is the APTA?
This subspecialty treats internal conditions developed from hormonal imbalances.
What is Endocrinology?
This federal law protects patient health information.
What is HIPAA? (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
This PT setting treats patients who are medically stable and travel to a clinic for rehab.
What is outpatient physical therapy?
This professional behavior includes honesty, ethical actions, and doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
What is integrity?
This provider is responsible for performing the initial evaluation and establishing the PT plan of care.
Who is the Physical Therapist (PT)?
The APTA vision statement says society is transformed by optimizing this.
What is movement?
The conditional state of having below normal blood sugar levels.
What is "hypoglycemia"?
Name, birthdate, and medical information are examples of this.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
This setting provides therapy services to patients who cannot safely leave their homes.
What is Home Health?
A healthcare worker discussing a patient loudly in an elevator is violating this principle.
What is confidentiality?
In California, this provider cannot independently perform physical therapy interventions and may only assist under supervision.
Who is the PT aide (or physical therapy aide)?
The highest legislative body within the APTA that debates and votes on motions.
What is the House of Delegates?
A patient with "tachypnea" would most likely be doing this.
What is breathing rapidly?
Patients have the right to refuse this.
What are physical therapy services/treatment?
Patients recovering from serious illness or surgery often receive short-term rehabilitation in this setting.
What is a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)?
In a PICO question, the letter “C” represents this.
A PTA may supervise a PT aide performing patient-related tasks.
What is False?
These two groups, in addition to PT's, may become members of the APTA.
Who are PTAs and PT/PTA students?
This term refers to the prediction of a patient's condition.
What is "prognosis"?
In the RIPS model, a situation where two reasonable actions may both seem right is called this.
What is an ethical dilemma?
This setting treats patients immediately after illness, surgery, or injury while still medically unstable.
What is Acute Care?
This professional trait involves taking responsibility for your actions and following through on obligations.
What is accountability?
A PTA notices a major unexpected change in a patient’s condition during treatment. According to California regulations, the PTA must do this first.
What is notify the supervising PT?
This California governing agency licenses PTs and PTAs and has the authority to investigate complaints and revoke a provider’s license.
What is the PTBC (Physical Therapy Board of California)?
This condition occurs when lymphatic fluid builds up in tissues, causing swelling due to impaired lymphatic drainage.
What is lymphedema?
In the RIPS model, an ethical situation where a personal benefit exists for doing something wrong is called this.
What is temptation?
This rehab setting typically requires patients to tolerate several hours of therapy per day.
What is an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF)?
According to the evidence pyramid, these two study types are considered among the highest levels of evidence or the “gold standard.”
What are systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials (RCTs)?
A PT aide escorts a patient to the gym and wipes down equipment but does not provide treatment or observe patient response. These duties are considered this category of task.
What are non-patient-related tasks?