PTA LAWS AND RULES EXAM
florida 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What are the three parts to the laws and rules exam ? - ✔✔Part A: chapter 486 PT
practice
Part B: rule 64B17
Part C: chapter 456 health profession,occupation,provision
What is legislative purpose? - ✔✔ensure every PT practitioner practicing in the state
meets minimum requirements for safe practice.
What is legislative intent? - ✔✔intent that PT practitioners who fall below minimum
competency or who otherwise present a danger to the public be prohibited from
practicing in this state.
What does board mean ? - ✔✔Means board of PT practice
What does department mean? - ✔✔Department of health
What does license mean ? - ✔✔The document of authorization granted by the board
and issued by the department for a person to practice PT.
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,What does endorsement mean ? - ✔✔Licensure granted by the board pursuant to the
provisions of chapter 486
What does Physical therapist mean? - ✔✔A person who is licensed and who practices
PT in accordance with the provisions of this chapter
What does PTA mean ? - ✔✔A person who is licensed in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter to preform patient related activities including use of physical
agents, whose license is in good standing and whose activities are preformed under the
direction of a PT as set forth in rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
Patient related activities preformed by a PTA for a board certified orthopedic physician
or physiatrist licensed pursuant to chapter 458 or 459 or a practitioner licensed under
chapter 460 shall be under what type of supervision? - ✔✔General supervision of a PT,
but shall not require onsite supervision by a PT.
Patient related activities preformed for all other health care practitioners licensed under
chapter 458/459 and those patient related activities preformed for practitioners licensed
under chapter 461/466 shall be preformed under what supervision? - ✔✔Onsite
supervision of a PT
What does physical therapy practitioner mean? - ✔✔A PT or PTA who is licensed and
who practices PT in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
What does physical therapy or physiotherapy mean ? - ✔✔Each of these terms are
deemed identical and interchangeable with each other , means a health care profession.
What is direct supervision ? - ✔✔Means supervision by a PT who is licensed pursuant
to this chapter. Except in a case of emergency, direct supervision requires the physical
presence of the licensed PT for consultation and direction of the actions of the PT or
PTA who is practicing under a temp license or who is a candidate for licensure by
examination.
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, What is a physical therapy assessment ? - ✔✔Means observational, verbal, or manual
determinations of the function of the musculoskeletal or neuromuscular system relative
to PT.
What does a physical therapy assessment include ? - ✔✔Including but not limited to
range of motion of a joint, motor power, postural attitudes, bio mechanical function,
locomotion, Or functional abilities, for the purpose of making recommendations for
treatment.
What does practice of physical therapy mean? - ✔✔Means the performance of physical
therapy assessments and the treatment of any disability, injury, disease or other health
condition of a human being, or the prevention of such disability, injury, disease, or
other condition of health, and rehabilitation as related thereto by the use of physical,
chemical, and other properties of air, electricity, exercise, massage, the performance of
acupuncture only upon compliance with the criteria set forth by the board of medicine.
The practice of physical therapy also includes what when no penetration of the skin
occurs? - ✔✔The use of radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible and infrared rays,
ultrasound, water, the use of apparatus and equipment in the application of the
forgoing or related thereto. The performance of tests of neuromuscular functions as an
aid to the diagnosis and treatment of any human condition, or the performance of
electromyography as an aid to the diagnosis of any human condition only upon
compliance with the criteria set forth by the board of medicine.
A physical therapist may implement a plan of treatment developed by the physical
therapist for a patient or provided for the patient by a? - ✔✔Practitioner of record or by
an advanced registered nurse practitioner that's licensed
The physical therapist shall refer the patient to or consult with a practitioner of record if
- ✔✔the patients condition is found to be outside the scope of physical therapy
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florida 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What are the three parts to the laws and rules exam ? - ✔✔Part A: chapter 486 PT
practice
Part B: rule 64B17
Part C: chapter 456 health profession,occupation,provision
What is legislative purpose? - ✔✔ensure every PT practitioner practicing in the state
meets minimum requirements for safe practice.
What is legislative intent? - ✔✔intent that PT practitioners who fall below minimum
competency or who otherwise present a danger to the public be prohibited from
practicing in this state.
What does board mean ? - ✔✔Means board of PT practice
What does department mean? - ✔✔Department of health
What does license mean ? - ✔✔The document of authorization granted by the board
and issued by the department for a person to practice PT.
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY OLIVIA WEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,What does endorsement mean ? - ✔✔Licensure granted by the board pursuant to the
provisions of chapter 486
What does Physical therapist mean? - ✔✔A person who is licensed and who practices
PT in accordance with the provisions of this chapter
What does PTA mean ? - ✔✔A person who is licensed in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter to preform patient related activities including use of physical
agents, whose license is in good standing and whose activities are preformed under the
direction of a PT as set forth in rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
Patient related activities preformed by a PTA for a board certified orthopedic physician
or physiatrist licensed pursuant to chapter 458 or 459 or a practitioner licensed under
chapter 460 shall be under what type of supervision? - ✔✔General supervision of a PT,
but shall not require onsite supervision by a PT.
Patient related activities preformed for all other health care practitioners licensed under
chapter 458/459 and those patient related activities preformed for practitioners licensed
under chapter 461/466 shall be preformed under what supervision? - ✔✔Onsite
supervision of a PT
What does physical therapy practitioner mean? - ✔✔A PT or PTA who is licensed and
who practices PT in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
What does physical therapy or physiotherapy mean ? - ✔✔Each of these terms are
deemed identical and interchangeable with each other , means a health care profession.
What is direct supervision ? - ✔✔Means supervision by a PT who is licensed pursuant
to this chapter. Except in a case of emergency, direct supervision requires the physical
presence of the licensed PT for consultation and direction of the actions of the PT or
PTA who is practicing under a temp license or who is a candidate for licensure by
examination.
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, What is a physical therapy assessment ? - ✔✔Means observational, verbal, or manual
determinations of the function of the musculoskeletal or neuromuscular system relative
to PT.
What does a physical therapy assessment include ? - ✔✔Including but not limited to
range of motion of a joint, motor power, postural attitudes, bio mechanical function,
locomotion, Or functional abilities, for the purpose of making recommendations for
treatment.
What does practice of physical therapy mean? - ✔✔Means the performance of physical
therapy assessments and the treatment of any disability, injury, disease or other health
condition of a human being, or the prevention of such disability, injury, disease, or
other condition of health, and rehabilitation as related thereto by the use of physical,
chemical, and other properties of air, electricity, exercise, massage, the performance of
acupuncture only upon compliance with the criteria set forth by the board of medicine.
The practice of physical therapy also includes what when no penetration of the skin
occurs? - ✔✔The use of radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible and infrared rays,
ultrasound, water, the use of apparatus and equipment in the application of the
forgoing or related thereto. The performance of tests of neuromuscular functions as an
aid to the diagnosis and treatment of any human condition, or the performance of
electromyography as an aid to the diagnosis of any human condition only upon
compliance with the criteria set forth by the board of medicine.
A physical therapist may implement a plan of treatment developed by the physical
therapist for a patient or provided for the patient by a? - ✔✔Practitioner of record or by
an advanced registered nurse practitioner that's licensed
The physical therapist shall refer the patient to or consult with a practitioner of record if
- ✔✔the patients condition is found to be outside the scope of physical therapy
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