EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Natural Law theory - ✔✔Discoverable moral laws of nature, stemming from our own
capacity for reason
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔duty to maximize the individual's right to make his or her own
decisions
✔✔Beneficence - ✔✔duty to do good
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔duty to respect right to privacy
✔✔Finality - ✔✔duty to take action that overrides law, religion, or social customs
✔✔Justice - ✔✔duty to treat all fairly, distribute risks and benefits equally
✔✔Nonmaeficence - ✔✔duty to do no harm
✔✔Understanding/tolerance - ✔✔duty to understand and accept other view points
✔✔Respect for persons - ✔✔duty to honor others, and their rights and responsibilities
✔✔Universality - ✔✔duty to take actions that hold for everyone, regardless of time place
or people involved
✔✔Veracity - ✔✔duty to tell the truth
✔✔Ethical behavior - ✔✔actions that are consistent with normative standards
established or practiced by others in the same profession
✔✔Fairness - ✔✔Relative equity that reflects insightful thought and soundness of intent
✔✔If a patient has symptoms or conditions outside of the PT scope of practice, the PT
is required to ... - ✔✔inform and assist the individual in identifying an appropriately
licensed practitioner of the healing arts
✔✔CAPTE - ✔✔Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education
✔✔Requirements for competence - ✔✔planned learning experiences which have
content beyond the licensee's present level of knowledge and competence
✔✔Self instruction from reading from professional literature - ✔✔Class II, limited to a
max of 5 hours
, ✔✔Attendance at a scientific poster session, lecture, panel, symposium or university
course - ✔✔Class II, one hour per contact hour of activity
✔✔Acting as a clinical instructor of an accredited PT or PTA program - ✔✔Class II, one
hour per 8 contact hours
✔✔Acting as a clinical instructor or intern for formal, non-academic, advanced clinical
internship or as a mentor or a learner for a formal, nonacademic mentorship - ✔✔Class
II
✔✔Under going a peer review - ✔✔Class I, 15 hours
✔✔Conducting a peer review (not primary employment) - ✔✔Class I, 10 hours
✔✔Participation as a presenter for continuing education courses, workshops or
seminars by an approved association - ✔✔Class I, may not exceed 10 hours
✔✔Authorship of a presented scientific poster, platform presentation or published article
- ✔✔Class I, 10 hours per event, may not exceed 20 hours
✔✔Teaching a PT or PTA credit course (not primary employment) - ✔✔Class I, not to
exceed 20 hours
✔✔Certification of clinical specialization by the ABPTS - ✔✔Class 1, 30 hours,
recognized only in the biennium in which it was awarded
✔✔Patients records shall be retained for no less than ... - ✔✔10 years
✔✔Requested records will be submitted within ... - ✔✔A reasonable amount of time
✔✔Person requesting records must furnish the provider with ... - ✔✔A written, signed,
authorization indicating that he/she is authorized to have access to the patients records
✔✔The maximum charge for search and retrieval of records - ✔✔$20
✔✔The maximum charge for certifying medical records - ✔✔$7.50
✔✔Maximum cost for postage for medical records - ✔✔Actual costs incurred
✔✔Year that HIPAA went into effect - ✔✔2001