FLORIDA PHYSICAL THERAPY ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔ The Laws and Rules Examination has 40 scored questions and the content and
approximate weights are: - ✔✔1. Legislative Intent and Definitions 25%
2. Board Powers and Duties 5%
3. Licensure and Examination 7.5%
4. Patient Care 35%
5. Disciplinary Action and Unlawful Practice 15%
6. Consumer Advocacy 12.5%
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: the sole purpose in chapter - ✔✔ensure every PT/PTA in state
meets min requirements for safe practice.
If PT/PTA fall below min competency or present a danger to the public be prohibited
from practicing in this state.
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: - ✔✔(1) INTENT: if a person wants to be a
PT/PTA, they are entitled to if qualified
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: why regulated? - ✔✔preservation of the health,
safety, and welfare of the public under the POLICE powers of the state
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: when regulated? - ✔✔- practice can harm or
endanger the health, safety, and welfare of the public
- public not effectively protected by other means, (other state statutes, local ordinances,
or federal legislation).
- Less restrictive means of regulation are not available.
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: restrictions - ✔✔- Neither the department nor
any board may take any action that tends to create or maintain an economic condition
that unreasonably restricts competition
, - Neither the department nor any board may create a regulation that has an
unreasonable effect on job creation or job retention in the state or that places
unreasonable restrictions on the ability of individuals who seek to practice or who are
practicing a profession or occupation to find employment.
- all expenditures are made in the most cost-effective manner to maximize competition,
minimize licensure costs, and maximize public access to meetings
✔✔1.2 "Physical therapy" or "physiotherapy," - ✔✔deemed identical and
interchangeable with each other, means a health care profession.
✔✔1.2 "Practice of physical therapy" - ✔✔- assessments
- treatment or prevention of any disability, injury, disease, or other health condition of
human beings
- physical, chemical, and other properties of air
- electricity
- exercise
- massage;
- acupuncture (only with compliance) when no penetration of the skin occurs
- radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible, and infrared rays
- ultrasound;
- water
- apparatus and equipment
- performance of tests of neuromuscular functions (to aid diagnosis or treatment) of any
human condition
- electromyography (aid in diagnosis of human condition - with compliance)
- implement a plan of treatment for a patient
✔✔if outside the scope of PT: - ✔✔PT will refer the patient to or consult with a health
care practitioner licensed under chapter 458, 459, 460, 461, or chapter 466,
✔✔how long can PT treat without a referral? - ✔✔21 days
the PT will obtain a practitioner of record who will review and sign the plan (licensed
under chapter 458, 459, 460, 461, or chapter 466 and engaged in active practice) if
longer than 21 days.
✔✔May a PT use roentgen rays and radium for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes? -
✔✔NO - outside the scope of PT.
✔✔May a PT use electricity for surgical purposes, including cauterization? - ✔✔NO -
outside the scope of PT
✔✔May a PT practice chiropractic medicine, including specific spinal manipulation? -
✔✔NO - For specific chiropractic spinal manipulation, a PT will refer the patient to a
health care practitioner licensed under chapter 460.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔ The Laws and Rules Examination has 40 scored questions and the content and
approximate weights are: - ✔✔1. Legislative Intent and Definitions 25%
2. Board Powers and Duties 5%
3. Licensure and Examination 7.5%
4. Patient Care 35%
5. Disciplinary Action and Unlawful Practice 15%
6. Consumer Advocacy 12.5%
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: the sole purpose in chapter - ✔✔ensure every PT/PTA in state
meets min requirements for safe practice.
If PT/PTA fall below min competency or present a danger to the public be prohibited
from practicing in this state.
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: - ✔✔(1) INTENT: if a person wants to be a
PT/PTA, they are entitled to if qualified
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: why regulated? - ✔✔preservation of the health,
safety, and welfare of the public under the POLICE powers of the state
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: when regulated? - ✔✔- practice can harm or
endanger the health, safety, and welfare of the public
- public not effectively protected by other means, (other state statutes, local ordinances,
or federal legislation).
- Less restrictive means of regulation are not available.
✔✔1.1 Legislative intent: requirements: restrictions - ✔✔- Neither the department nor
any board may take any action that tends to create or maintain an economic condition
that unreasonably restricts competition
, - Neither the department nor any board may create a regulation that has an
unreasonable effect on job creation or job retention in the state or that places
unreasonable restrictions on the ability of individuals who seek to practice or who are
practicing a profession or occupation to find employment.
- all expenditures are made in the most cost-effective manner to maximize competition,
minimize licensure costs, and maximize public access to meetings
✔✔1.2 "Physical therapy" or "physiotherapy," - ✔✔deemed identical and
interchangeable with each other, means a health care profession.
✔✔1.2 "Practice of physical therapy" - ✔✔- assessments
- treatment or prevention of any disability, injury, disease, or other health condition of
human beings
- physical, chemical, and other properties of air
- electricity
- exercise
- massage;
- acupuncture (only with compliance) when no penetration of the skin occurs
- radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible, and infrared rays
- ultrasound;
- water
- apparatus and equipment
- performance of tests of neuromuscular functions (to aid diagnosis or treatment) of any
human condition
- electromyography (aid in diagnosis of human condition - with compliance)
- implement a plan of treatment for a patient
✔✔if outside the scope of PT: - ✔✔PT will refer the patient to or consult with a health
care practitioner licensed under chapter 458, 459, 460, 461, or chapter 466,
✔✔how long can PT treat without a referral? - ✔✔21 days
the PT will obtain a practitioner of record who will review and sign the plan (licensed
under chapter 458, 459, 460, 461, or chapter 466 and engaged in active practice) if
longer than 21 days.
✔✔May a PT use roentgen rays and radium for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes? -
✔✔NO - outside the scope of PT.
✔✔May a PT use electricity for surgical purposes, including cauterization? - ✔✔NO -
outside the scope of PT
✔✔May a PT practice chiropractic medicine, including specific spinal manipulation? -
✔✔NO - For specific chiropractic spinal manipulation, a PT will refer the patient to a
health care practitioner licensed under chapter 460.
