PTP MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
ACCE - Answers :Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education - faculty member who
places students in clinical experiences and monitors student performance.
Clinical Education Department - Answers :The Clinical Education Department is
responsible for ensuring students have completed the requirements necessary for
clinical experiences such as fingerprint reports, background checks, drug screens,
immunization records, CPR and First Aid training, HIPAA and OSHA training, etc.
1921 - Answers :APTA's founders met at Keens Chophouse in New York City. The
participants decided to create an association with the name American Women's
Physical Therapeutic Association. Dues were established at $2.
Who was the first president of APTA? - Answers :Mary McMillan Is Elected the First
President of the American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association in 1921
Our roots - Answers :• Historical events
• Infantile Paralysis Epidemics • World War I
Infantile Paralysis Epidemics - Answers :• Wilhelmine Wright trained people in a new
procedure called "manual muscle testing"
• Muscle training and reeducation was established as a therapeutic procedure
• 1928: published Muscle Function, benchmark in physical therapy
• It was the basis for the work other physical therapists:
• Miriam Sweeney
• Janet Merrill
• Henry and Florence Kendall
• Signe Brunnstrom
• Marjorie Dennen
• Alice Lou Plastridge
World War I - Answers :• The US declared war on Germany in 1917
• US Surgeon General established the Division of Special Hospitals and Physical
Reconstruction on August 22, 1917
• Reconstruction Aides
• Establish physical reconstruction programs to treat wounded soldiers
• Mostly nurses and physical education graduates who went back to school for
additional training
Reconstruction Aides: - Answers :"They changed the lives of countless injured soldiers
with no historical precedents to guide them. And they did so as independent, strong-
willed women at a time when women did not have the right to vote, most did not leave
home until they married, and most did not work."1
Mary McMillan - Answers :first US Reconstruction Aide
,• 1917: Head of the program at Walter Reed General Hospital
• 1918: Established training program at Reed College in Portland, OR
• Additional War Emergency Training Centers were opened
Guiding Principles to Achieve the Vision of APTA - Answers :Identity
quality
collaboration
value
innovation
consumer-centricity
access/equity
advocacy
APTA mission statement - Answers :Building a community that advances the profession
of physical therapy to improve the health of society.
VISION STATEMENT FOR THE PHYSICAL THERAPY PROFESSION - Answers
:Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience.
identity APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will promote the movement
system as the foundation for optimizing movement to improve the health of society. The
movement system is the integration of body systems that generate and maintain
movement at all levels of bodily function. Human movement is a complex behavior
within a specific context, and is influenced by social, environmental, and personal
factors. Recognition and validation of the movement system is essential to understand
the structure, function, and potential of the human body. The physical therapist will be
responsible for evaluating and managing an individual's movement system across the
lifespan to promote optimal development; diagnose impairments, activity limitations, and
participation restrictions; and provide interventions targeted at preventing or
ameliorating activity limitations and participation restrictions. The movement system is
the core of physical therapist practice, education, and research.
quality APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will commit to establishing and
adopting best practice standards across the domains of practice, education, and
research as the individuals in these domains strive to be flexible, prepared, and
responsive in a dynamic and ever-changing world. As independent practitioners,
doctors of physical therapy in clinical practice will embrace best practice standards in
examination, diagnosis/classification, intervention, and outcome measurement. These
physical therapists will generate, validate, and disseminate evidence and quality
indicators, espousing payment for outcomes and patient/client satisfaction, striving to
prevent adverse events related to patient care, and demonstrating continuing
competence. Educators will seek to propagate the highest standards of teaching and
learning, supporting collaboration and innovation throughout academia. Researchers
will collaborate with clinicians to expand available evidence and translate it into practice,
conduct comparative effectiveness research, standardize outcome measurement, and
participate in interprofessional research teams.
, collaboration APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will demonstrate the
value of this with other health care providers, consumers, community organizations, and
other disciplines to solve the health-related challenges that society faces. In clinical
practice, doctors of physical therapy, who collaborate across the continuum of care, will
ensure that services are coordinated, of value, and consumer-centered by referring, co-
managing, engaging consultants, and directing and supervising care. Education models
will value and foster interprofessional approaches to best meet consumer and
population needs and instill team values in physical therapists and physical therapist
assistants. Interprofessional research approaches will ensure that evidence translates
to practice and is consumer-centered.
Value APTA - Answers :has been defined as "the health outcomes achieved per dollar
spent".1 To ensure the best value, services that the physical therapy profession will
provide will be safe, effective, patient/client-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.2
Outcomes will be both meaningful to patients/clients and cost-effective. Value will be
demonstrated and achieved in all settings in which physical therapist services are
delivered. Accountability will be a core characteristic of the profession and will be
essential to demonstrating value.
innovation APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will offer creative and
proactive solutions to enhance health services delivery and to increase the value of
physical therapy to society. Innovation will occur in many settings and dimensions,
including health care delivery models, practice patterns, education, research, and the
development of patient/client-centered procedures and devices and new technology
applications. In clinical practice, collaboration with developers, engineers, and social
entrepreneurs will capitalize on the technological savvy of the consumer and extend the
reach of the physical therapist beyond traditional patient/client-therapist settings.
Innovation in education will enhance interprofessional learning, address workforce
needs, respond to declining higher education funding, and, anticipating the changing
way adults learn, foster new educational models and delivery methods. In research,
innovation will advance knowledge about the profession, apply new knowledge in such
areas as genetics and engineering, and lead to new possibilities related to movement
and function. New models of research and enhanced approaches to the translation of
evidence will more expediently put these discoveries and other new information into the
hands and minds of clinicians and educators.
Consumer-centricity APTA - Answers :Patient/client/consumer values and goals will be
central to all efforts in which the physical therapy profession will engage. The physical
therapy profession embraces cultural competence as a necessary skill to ensure best
practice in providing physical therapist services by responding to individual and cultural
considerations, needs, and values.
Access and Equity APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will recognize
health inequities and disparities and work to ameliorate them through innovative models
of service delivery, advocacy, attention to the influence of the social determinants of
ACCE - Answers :Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education - faculty member who
places students in clinical experiences and monitors student performance.
Clinical Education Department - Answers :The Clinical Education Department is
responsible for ensuring students have completed the requirements necessary for
clinical experiences such as fingerprint reports, background checks, drug screens,
immunization records, CPR and First Aid training, HIPAA and OSHA training, etc.
1921 - Answers :APTA's founders met at Keens Chophouse in New York City. The
participants decided to create an association with the name American Women's
Physical Therapeutic Association. Dues were established at $2.
Who was the first president of APTA? - Answers :Mary McMillan Is Elected the First
President of the American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association in 1921
Our roots - Answers :• Historical events
• Infantile Paralysis Epidemics • World War I
Infantile Paralysis Epidemics - Answers :• Wilhelmine Wright trained people in a new
procedure called "manual muscle testing"
• Muscle training and reeducation was established as a therapeutic procedure
• 1928: published Muscle Function, benchmark in physical therapy
• It was the basis for the work other physical therapists:
• Miriam Sweeney
• Janet Merrill
• Henry and Florence Kendall
• Signe Brunnstrom
• Marjorie Dennen
• Alice Lou Plastridge
World War I - Answers :• The US declared war on Germany in 1917
• US Surgeon General established the Division of Special Hospitals and Physical
Reconstruction on August 22, 1917
• Reconstruction Aides
• Establish physical reconstruction programs to treat wounded soldiers
• Mostly nurses and physical education graduates who went back to school for
additional training
Reconstruction Aides: - Answers :"They changed the lives of countless injured soldiers
with no historical precedents to guide them. And they did so as independent, strong-
willed women at a time when women did not have the right to vote, most did not leave
home until they married, and most did not work."1
Mary McMillan - Answers :first US Reconstruction Aide
,• 1917: Head of the program at Walter Reed General Hospital
• 1918: Established training program at Reed College in Portland, OR
• Additional War Emergency Training Centers were opened
Guiding Principles to Achieve the Vision of APTA - Answers :Identity
quality
collaboration
value
innovation
consumer-centricity
access/equity
advocacy
APTA mission statement - Answers :Building a community that advances the profession
of physical therapy to improve the health of society.
VISION STATEMENT FOR THE PHYSICAL THERAPY PROFESSION - Answers
:Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience.
identity APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will promote the movement
system as the foundation for optimizing movement to improve the health of society. The
movement system is the integration of body systems that generate and maintain
movement at all levels of bodily function. Human movement is a complex behavior
within a specific context, and is influenced by social, environmental, and personal
factors. Recognition and validation of the movement system is essential to understand
the structure, function, and potential of the human body. The physical therapist will be
responsible for evaluating and managing an individual's movement system across the
lifespan to promote optimal development; diagnose impairments, activity limitations, and
participation restrictions; and provide interventions targeted at preventing or
ameliorating activity limitations and participation restrictions. The movement system is
the core of physical therapist practice, education, and research.
quality APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will commit to establishing and
adopting best practice standards across the domains of practice, education, and
research as the individuals in these domains strive to be flexible, prepared, and
responsive in a dynamic and ever-changing world. As independent practitioners,
doctors of physical therapy in clinical practice will embrace best practice standards in
examination, diagnosis/classification, intervention, and outcome measurement. These
physical therapists will generate, validate, and disseminate evidence and quality
indicators, espousing payment for outcomes and patient/client satisfaction, striving to
prevent adverse events related to patient care, and demonstrating continuing
competence. Educators will seek to propagate the highest standards of teaching and
learning, supporting collaboration and innovation throughout academia. Researchers
will collaborate with clinicians to expand available evidence and translate it into practice,
conduct comparative effectiveness research, standardize outcome measurement, and
participate in interprofessional research teams.
, collaboration APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will demonstrate the
value of this with other health care providers, consumers, community organizations, and
other disciplines to solve the health-related challenges that society faces. In clinical
practice, doctors of physical therapy, who collaborate across the continuum of care, will
ensure that services are coordinated, of value, and consumer-centered by referring, co-
managing, engaging consultants, and directing and supervising care. Education models
will value and foster interprofessional approaches to best meet consumer and
population needs and instill team values in physical therapists and physical therapist
assistants. Interprofessional research approaches will ensure that evidence translates
to practice and is consumer-centered.
Value APTA - Answers :has been defined as "the health outcomes achieved per dollar
spent".1 To ensure the best value, services that the physical therapy profession will
provide will be safe, effective, patient/client-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.2
Outcomes will be both meaningful to patients/clients and cost-effective. Value will be
demonstrated and achieved in all settings in which physical therapist services are
delivered. Accountability will be a core characteristic of the profession and will be
essential to demonstrating value.
innovation APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will offer creative and
proactive solutions to enhance health services delivery and to increase the value of
physical therapy to society. Innovation will occur in many settings and dimensions,
including health care delivery models, practice patterns, education, research, and the
development of patient/client-centered procedures and devices and new technology
applications. In clinical practice, collaboration with developers, engineers, and social
entrepreneurs will capitalize on the technological savvy of the consumer and extend the
reach of the physical therapist beyond traditional patient/client-therapist settings.
Innovation in education will enhance interprofessional learning, address workforce
needs, respond to declining higher education funding, and, anticipating the changing
way adults learn, foster new educational models and delivery methods. In research,
innovation will advance knowledge about the profession, apply new knowledge in such
areas as genetics and engineering, and lead to new possibilities related to movement
and function. New models of research and enhanced approaches to the translation of
evidence will more expediently put these discoveries and other new information into the
hands and minds of clinicians and educators.
Consumer-centricity APTA - Answers :Patient/client/consumer values and goals will be
central to all efforts in which the physical therapy profession will engage. The physical
therapy profession embraces cultural competence as a necessary skill to ensure best
practice in providing physical therapist services by responding to individual and cultural
considerations, needs, and values.
Access and Equity APTA - Answers :The physical therapy profession will recognize
health inequities and disparities and work to ameliorate them through innovative models
of service delivery, advocacy, attention to the influence of the social determinants of
