GA JURISPRUDENCE UPDATED EVALUATION
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔No - ✔✔Can an individual holding inactive status practice as a PT or work as a PTA
within the state of GA?
✔✔no - ✔✔Is an individual holding inactive status subject to biannual renewal fees or
continuing competence?
✔✔No - ✔✔Can an individual whose license is under any sanction transfer to inactive
status while sanctions are in effect?
✔✔submitting an application for reinstatement, pay appropriate fee, and required to
meet other requirements - ✔✔An individual holding inactive status may return to active
status by?
✔✔50% - ✔✔A licensed PT shall be present in the same institutional setting ___% of
any work week or portion thereof that the assistant is on duty, and shall be readily
available to the assistant at all other times for advise, assistance, and instruction.
✔✔nursing home, acute hospital, convalescent hospital, rehabilitation center, other in-pt
facility by any other name and out-pt clinic which include private office - ✔✔Examples of
an "Institutional Setting" is/are:
✔✔1. perform initial eval to establish diagnosis, treatment goals, frequency, duration,
and plan of care
2. meet w/the assistant no less than ONCE weekly to review pts being treated
3. document all meetings with the assistant and subsequent decisions
4. make on on-site visit to each pt being treated by the assistant as appropriate based
on the need to alter the treatment plan and NO LESS than EVERY 6TH visit.
5. document the on-site visit, changes in the treatment plan, and communication to the
assistant
, 6. be available to the assistant at all times for advice, assistance, and instructions -
✔✔The licensed PT in the HOME HEALTH setting responsible for the pt shall supervise
the PTA working with the pt and shall:
✔✔1. perform all PT evaluations to develop or amen physical therapy interventions
stated on the student's Individual Educational Plan (IEP)
2. make an on-site visit to each student schedule for direct weekly services from the
PTA no less than every 4TH scheduled week, and no less than once every 3 MONTHS
for students who are scheduled w/the PTA once monthly or less.
3. document the on-site visit including status of case(s), program or services status or
change and indicate instructions given to the PTA
4. Interact w/the PTA in appropriate ways ways specific to the goals & objectives stated
in the IEP
5. be available to PTA at all times for advise, assistance, and instructions - ✔✔A
licensed PT shall be designated as the PTA's supervisor in the SCHOOL setting and
shall:
✔✔1. Evaluate each pt
2. Plan each pt's treatment program & determine which elements thereof can be
delegated to PTA
3. Provide periodic reevaluation of trx program & PTA's performance in relation to the pt
4. Perform & record an evaluation of the pt and his response to trx at the termination
thereof
5. Interact w/the PTA in appropriate ways specific to the plan of care of the pt's being
treated by the PTA - ✔✔Adequate supervision by a licensed PT shall including the
following:
✔✔yes - ✔✔Will the GA State Board of PT verify licensure and provide examination
scores, when applicable, to another state upon receiving written request from the
applicant accompanied by the ascribed fee?
✔✔No - ✔✔Does a physical therapy aide require technical training through a formal
course of study?
✔✔Physical Therapy aide - ✔✔A physical therapy _____ must have direct supervision
on the premises at all times when providing supportive activities.
✔✔direct supervision - ✔✔What means on the premises and immediately available at
all times?
✔✔on the premises - ✔✔_____ means the immediate area of the pt.
✔✔Treatment documentation - ✔✔defined for purposes of this Rule as the creation,
generation, composition of any pt care report and shall include but not be limited to pt
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔No - ✔✔Can an individual holding inactive status practice as a PT or work as a PTA
within the state of GA?
✔✔no - ✔✔Is an individual holding inactive status subject to biannual renewal fees or
continuing competence?
✔✔No - ✔✔Can an individual whose license is under any sanction transfer to inactive
status while sanctions are in effect?
✔✔submitting an application for reinstatement, pay appropriate fee, and required to
meet other requirements - ✔✔An individual holding inactive status may return to active
status by?
✔✔50% - ✔✔A licensed PT shall be present in the same institutional setting ___% of
any work week or portion thereof that the assistant is on duty, and shall be readily
available to the assistant at all other times for advise, assistance, and instruction.
✔✔nursing home, acute hospital, convalescent hospital, rehabilitation center, other in-pt
facility by any other name and out-pt clinic which include private office - ✔✔Examples of
an "Institutional Setting" is/are:
✔✔1. perform initial eval to establish diagnosis, treatment goals, frequency, duration,
and plan of care
2. meet w/the assistant no less than ONCE weekly to review pts being treated
3. document all meetings with the assistant and subsequent decisions
4. make on on-site visit to each pt being treated by the assistant as appropriate based
on the need to alter the treatment plan and NO LESS than EVERY 6TH visit.
5. document the on-site visit, changes in the treatment plan, and communication to the
assistant
, 6. be available to the assistant at all times for advice, assistance, and instructions -
✔✔The licensed PT in the HOME HEALTH setting responsible for the pt shall supervise
the PTA working with the pt and shall:
✔✔1. perform all PT evaluations to develop or amen physical therapy interventions
stated on the student's Individual Educational Plan (IEP)
2. make an on-site visit to each student schedule for direct weekly services from the
PTA no less than every 4TH scheduled week, and no less than once every 3 MONTHS
for students who are scheduled w/the PTA once monthly or less.
3. document the on-site visit including status of case(s), program or services status or
change and indicate instructions given to the PTA
4. Interact w/the PTA in appropriate ways ways specific to the goals & objectives stated
in the IEP
5. be available to PTA at all times for advise, assistance, and instructions - ✔✔A
licensed PT shall be designated as the PTA's supervisor in the SCHOOL setting and
shall:
✔✔1. Evaluate each pt
2. Plan each pt's treatment program & determine which elements thereof can be
delegated to PTA
3. Provide periodic reevaluation of trx program & PTA's performance in relation to the pt
4. Perform & record an evaluation of the pt and his response to trx at the termination
thereof
5. Interact w/the PTA in appropriate ways specific to the plan of care of the pt's being
treated by the PTA - ✔✔Adequate supervision by a licensed PT shall including the
following:
✔✔yes - ✔✔Will the GA State Board of PT verify licensure and provide examination
scores, when applicable, to another state upon receiving written request from the
applicant accompanied by the ascribed fee?
✔✔No - ✔✔Does a physical therapy aide require technical training through a formal
course of study?
✔✔Physical Therapy aide - ✔✔A physical therapy _____ must have direct supervision
on the premises at all times when providing supportive activities.
✔✔direct supervision - ✔✔What means on the premises and immediately available at
all times?
✔✔on the premises - ✔✔_____ means the immediate area of the pt.
✔✔Treatment documentation - ✔✔defined for purposes of this Rule as the creation,
generation, composition of any pt care report and shall include but not be limited to pt
