FLORIDA JURISPRUDENCE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025

FLORIDA JURISPRUDENCE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025

🏛️ Section 1: Legislative Intent & Purpose

1. The legislative intent of the Physical Therapy Board is to:
A) Increase employment opportunities for healthcare professionals
B) Allow any person to practice physical therapy without restriction
✅ C) Ensure every PT practitioner practicing in the state meets minimum requirements
for safe practice
D) Promote medical education and research

Rationale: The Board’s intent is to ensure that only qualified practitioners who meet safety
and competency standards are allowed to practice physical therapy.



2. The intent of regulation for any lawful profession is that persons who desire to engage in
it:
A) Must have at least five years of clinical experience
✅ B) Can and are entitled to do so if qualified
C) Must hold dual licensure in another state
D) Are supervised by the Department of Health

Rationale: Regulation ensures fair opportunity — any qualified individual may engage in a
lawful profession.



3. Professions should be regulated only for the purpose of:
A) Increasing revenue for the state
✅ B) Preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the public
C) Ensuring competition among practitioners
D) Maintaining education standards

Rationale: Professional regulation exists primarily to protect the public, not to limit or promote
economic interests.




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,4. Professions shall be regulated when:
A) Practitioners request supervision from the Board
✅ B) Unregulated practice may cause harm to the public and that potential for harm
outweighs the impact of regulation
C) There is low employment in the field
D) The Department of Health mandates it

Rationale: The state intervenes only when unregulated practice risks public harm greater
than the burden of regulation.



5. Neither the Department nor the Board may:
A) Enforce disciplinary action without a hearing
✅ B) Unreasonably restrict or deter qualified people from licensure or competition
C) Modify laws passed by the Legislature
D) Require additional testing for all applicants

Rationale: The Board must not create unnecessary barriers that deter qualified professionals
from entering or remaining in the field.



6. Policies made by the Board should be:
A) Strict and punitive
✅ B) Cost-effective, maximize competition, minimize licensure costs, and maximize public
access to meetings
C) Primarily supportive of licensed professionals
D) Focused on generating state income

Rationale: The Board’s policies aim to balance effective regulation with accessibility,
fairness, and transparency.



7. Unless expressly granted by statute, the Board’s duties do NOT include:
A) Imposing disciplinary actions
✅ B) Changing the scope of physical therapy practice
C) Approving continuing education providers
D) Enforcing renewal fees

Rationale: Only the Legislature may alter the legal scope of practice for physical therapists.

⚕️ Section 2: Practice of Physical Therapy & Scope of Care




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, 1. The “practice of physical therapy” means:
A) Performing massage and fitness training only
B) Diagnosing diseases and prescribing medications
✅ C) Performing physical therapy assessments and treating or preventing disability,
injury, disease, or other health conditions in humans
D) Providing medical counseling for all health issues

Rationale: The legal definition of physical therapy involves evaluation, treatment, and
prevention of physical dysfunctions — not medical diagnosis or prescription.



2. Which of the following is included in the lawful practice of physical therapy?
A) Spinal manipulation without a medical referral
✅ B) The use of physical agents, exercises, and therapeutic interventions to improve
function
C) Performing surgical correction of musculoskeletal conditions
D) Prescribing narcotics for pain management

Rationale: Physical therapists may use physical agents and therapeutic techniques to improve
physical function but cannot perform surgery or prescribe drugs.



3. When practicing under direct access, a PT must refer the patient to a healthcare
practitioner if the patient’s condition is found to be outside the PT’s scope or if no
improvement is observed within:
A) 7 days
B) 14 days
✅ C) 30 days
D) 60 days

Rationale: Florida law allows 30 days of direct access before a PT must obtain or refer for a
physician’s review if progress is insufficient.



4. Physical therapy treatment may be provided under the prescription of:
A) Only a medical doctor (MD)
✅ B) A licensed physician, chiropractor, dentist, or podiatrist
C) Any healthcare worker
D) A physical therapist assistant

Rationale: PTs may treat under authorized referral sources including MDs, DOs, DCs, DDSs,
and DPMs.



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