Supervision Station
Florida distinguishes between assessment of patient progress and evaluation and interpretation of patient progress. Which clinician is associated with each?
Who are the PTA for assessment of progress and the PT for evaluation and interpretation of progress?
Unlicensed supportive personnel may assist with patient-care treatment, but only under this level of supervision by a PT or PTA.
What is direct supervision?
A licensee must notify the Board in writing of an address change within this many days.
What is 60 days?
Before releasing patient information to a third party not involved in the patient’s care, the licensee must obtain this.
What is written consent from the patient?
Under Florida’s delegation rule, subsequent reassessments and assessment of patient progress in relation to the plan of care require the special knowledge, judgment, and skills of this clinician.
Who is the physical therapist assistant?
An unlicensed aide may document exercises and activities completed during treatment, but may not complete this type of documentation.
What is a patient progress note?
When terminating or relocating a practice, the required newspaper notice must be published this many times over at least this many weeks.
What are 4 times over at least 4 weeks?
A PT may retain custody of and administer a patient’s nonscheduled legend topical medication only when it has been prescribed by this practitioner.
Who is a physician?
This licensed clinician may directly supervise an unlicensed person performing a delegated patient-care task, but only if the clinician is personally qualified and legally entitled to perform that task.
Who is either the physical therapist or the physical therapist assistant?
These two functions cannot be delegated to unlicensed personnel because they require the special knowledge, judgment, and skills of a physical therapist assistant.
What are subsequent reassessment of the patient and assessment of patient progress in relation to the plan of care?
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For each year a license is inactive, reactivation requires this many CE hours, with no more than this many completed online or by home study.
Before taking the NPTE for a fourth time, an applicant must show completion of one of these two things since the previous examination.
What is an additional course of study or an internship?
When patient-care tasks are delegated to unlicensed personnel, this clinician has the sole responsibility for selecting the appropriate person, verifying their training and understanding, establishing how the task will be monitored, and assuring competency.
Who is the physical therapist?
A skilled physical therapy function may not be delegated to personnel less trained than this licensed professional.
Who is a physical therapist assistant?
Before performing electromyography, a PT must document this many supervised testing hours and this many tests on neurologically involved patients.
What are 200 hours and 100 tests?
An applicant who previously passed the NPTE may use that passing score for Florida licensure only if the exam was passed within this period immediately before applying.
What is 5 years?
Complete this Florida scope split correctly:
What is PTA, PT, PTA, PT?
Under Rule 64B17-6.007, this is the only documentation-related function specifically permitted for unlicensed personnel.
What is documenting the tasks and activities of patients during treatment?
Florida gives two different dry-needling deadlines: this many days to report an adverse medical incident and this many days to submit the required attestation.
What are 15 days and 60 days?
For a foreign-trained PT, full-time teaching may count toward the required clinical-practice experience at this rate.
What is 250 hours of teaching toward each required 1,000 hours of clinical practice?