FLORIDA JURISPRUDENCE PT EXAMINATION
LATEST 2024-2025 REAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|AGRADE
Terms in this set (57)
1. Legislative Intent and Definitions 25%
The Laws and Rules
2. Board Powers and Duties 5%
Examination has 40 scored
3. Licensure and Examination 7.5%
questions and the content
4. Patient Care 35%
and approximate weights
5. Disciplinary Action and Unlawful Practice 15%
are:
6. Consumer Advocacy 12.5%
ensure every PT/PTA in state meets min requirements for
safe practice.
1.1 Legislative intent: the
sole purpose in chapter 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: (1) INTENT: if a person wants to be a PT/PTA, they are
requirements: entitled to if qualified
1.1 Legislative intent: preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the
requirements: why public under the POLICE powers of the state
regulated?
- practice can harm or endanger the health, safety, and
1.1 Legislative intent: welfare of the public
requirements: when - public not effectively protected by other means, (other
regulated? state statutes, local ordinances, or federal legislation).
- Less restrictive means of regulation are not available.
, - 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
1.1 Legislative intent: creation or job retention in the state or that places
requirements: restrictions 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 deemed identical and interchangeable with each other,
"physiotherapy," means a health care profession.
- 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
1.2 "Practice of physical
- radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible, and
therapy"
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
, PT will refer the patient to or consult with a health care
if outside the scope of PT: practitioner licensed under chapter 458, 459, 460, 461,
or chapter 466,
21 days
the PT will obtain a practitioner of record who will review
how long can PT treat
and sign the plan (licensed under chapter 458, 459, 460,
without a referral?
461, or chapter 466 and engaged in active practice) if
longer than 21 days.
May a PT use roentgen rays NO - outside the scope of PT.
and radium for diagnostic
and therapeutic purposes?
May a PT use electricity for NO - outside the scope of PT
surgical purposes, including
cauterization?
May a PT practice NO - For specific chiropractic spinal manipulation, a PT
chiropractic medicine, will refer the patient to a health care practitioner
including specific spinal licensed under chapter 460.
manipulation?
Nothing in this subsection Chapter 395 = Hospital
authorizes a physical
therapist to implement a
plan of treatment for a
patient currently being
treated in a facility licensed
pursuant to chapter 395.
licensed and who practices physical therapy in
1.3 "Physical Therapist"
accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
- licensed in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter to perform patient-related activities, including:
1.3 "Physical Therapist physical agents
Assistant" - license in good standing
- activities performed under the direction of a physical
therapist
LATEST 2024-2025 REAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|AGRADE
Terms in this set (57)
1. Legislative Intent and Definitions 25%
The Laws and Rules
2. Board Powers and Duties 5%
Examination has 40 scored
3. Licensure and Examination 7.5%
questions and the content
4. Patient Care 35%
and approximate weights
5. Disciplinary Action and Unlawful Practice 15%
are:
6. Consumer Advocacy 12.5%
ensure every PT/PTA in state meets min requirements for
safe practice.
1.1 Legislative intent: the
sole purpose in chapter 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: (1) INTENT: if a person wants to be a PT/PTA, they are
requirements: entitled to if qualified
1.1 Legislative intent: preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the
requirements: why public under the POLICE powers of the state
regulated?
- practice can harm or endanger the health, safety, and
1.1 Legislative intent: welfare of the public
requirements: when - public not effectively protected by other means, (other
regulated? state statutes, local ordinances, or federal legislation).
- Less restrictive means of regulation are not available.
, - 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
1.1 Legislative intent: creation or job retention in the state or that places
requirements: restrictions 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 deemed identical and interchangeable with each other,
"physiotherapy," means a health care profession.
- 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
1.2 "Practice of physical
- radiant energy, including ultraviolet, visible, and
therapy"
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
, PT will refer the patient to or consult with a health care
if outside the scope of PT: practitioner licensed under chapter 458, 459, 460, 461,
or chapter 466,
21 days
the PT will obtain a practitioner of record who will review
how long can PT treat
and sign the plan (licensed under chapter 458, 459, 460,
without a referral?
461, or chapter 466 and engaged in active practice) if
longer than 21 days.
May a PT use roentgen rays NO - outside the scope of PT.
and radium for diagnostic
and therapeutic purposes?
May a PT use electricity for NO - outside the scope of PT
surgical purposes, including
cauterization?
May a PT practice NO - For specific chiropractic spinal manipulation, a PT
chiropractic medicine, will refer the patient to a health care practitioner
including specific spinal licensed under chapter 460.
manipulation?
Nothing in this subsection Chapter 395 = Hospital
authorizes a physical
therapist to implement a
plan of treatment for a
patient currently being
treated in a facility licensed
pursuant to chapter 395.
licensed and who practices physical therapy in
1.3 "Physical Therapist"
accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
- licensed in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter to perform patient-related activities, including:
1.3 "Physical Therapist physical agents
Assistant" - license in good standing
- activities performed under the direction of a physical
therapist
