Kaplan Safety Issues, Professional Responsibilities, Learning, and Research Quiz Leave a Comment / Quizzes / By Fatma Qeshta Safety Issues, Professional Responsibilities, Learning, and Research Quiz from Kaplan NPTE book 5 Kaplan Safety Issues, Professional Responsibilities, Learning, and Research Quiz Safety Issues, Professional Responsibilities, Learning, and Research Quiz from Kaplan NPTE book 1 / 15 Which governing organization has been established to set regulations to protect workers and the publicfrom the risk of exposure to infectious disease transmission through contact with blood-borne pathogens? APTA JCAHO CDC OSHA 2 / 15 A researcher uses inferential statistics to describe the results of his study. What is an example ofinferential statistics? Significant difference Mean Range Median 3 / 15 Which one of the following would be an appropriate short-term goal? The patient should have 0-90° of active knee flexion within two weeks. The patient should have less pain in her shoul-der within two weeks. The patient should be dressing herself indepen-dently by the time she is discharged. The patient should demonstrate an improved gait pattern within one week. 4 / 15 A physical therapist is working with a 78-year-old patient, following a cerebrovascular accident. Thepatient is having difficulty remembering how to stand up from a chair. The physical therapist writes downfour steps to instruct the patient on how to stand up, starting with "First, lock the brakes on yourwheelchair." After studying the written directions, the patient is able to recite the four steps in order but isstill unable to perform the task. What type of learning may be impaired in this patient? Declarative learning Implicit learning Explicit learning New learning 5 / 15 Which health behavior change model incorporates a patient's readiness to change? Theory of reasoned action Transtheoretical model Attribution model Health belief model 6 / 15 Which one of the following situations does NOT fall under the umbrella of risk management? A tech injuring her back lifting a patient A patient straining her quad doing physical therapy exercises at home A physical therapist observing signs and behav-iors of domestic abuse in a patient A patient's spouse falling at the hospital 7 / 15 A physical therapist provides feedback to a client who is performing several trials of a new, complicatedlower-body exercise. The therapist provides the feed-back after every third trial of the exercise. What type offeedback schedule is this physical therapist providing? Client-controlled feedback Faded feedback Summary feedback Constant feedback 8 / 15 A physical therapist working in a skilled nursing facility develops laryngitis. Most of her patients areable to read her lips and hand gestures to complete proper treat-ment. Some patients can read her written orvisual cues. One of her patients, however, is a 75-year-old man who is legally blind and extremely hard ofhearing. How should the therapist communicate with this patient? Skip treatment Guide his extremities through passive range of motion only Have a coworker tell the patient to walk and perform exercise on his own Ask another physical therapist to treat the patient until the laryngitis disappears 9 / 15 A researcher is studying edema following rotator cuff surgery. To eliminate error, the researcher has eachsubject measured in the same room, with the room being the same temperature each time, with the samelighting, same humidity, and same length of time of being in the room prior to measurement. The research istrying to eliminate what type of error? Environmental variability Instrument variability Observer variability Subject variability 10 / 15 What learning theory focuses on changing the learner's thoughts, perceptions, and informationprocessing? Social learning theory Behaviorist learning theory Cognitive learning theory Humanistic learning theory 11 / 15 Borg's Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) scale is used to measure a person's rating of the amount ofwork that he or she is performing. It has descriptors such as very light, somewhat hard, and very hard; and itincludes numbers that fit in with these descriptors. What is an advantage of using a scale such as the RPE? There is an ease of use of the scale. Information is subjective in nature. There is a tendency for each patient to give an above- or below-average rating. Elderly patients may have a difficult time rating exertion. 12 / 15 One outcome measure is a hand dynamometer. What type of measurement is the reading of pounds on thehand dynamometer? Nominal Ratio Ordinal Interval 13 / 15 A researcher decides to use an interview to study patients' attitudes about nursing homes. What is onedisadvantage of using an interview for research? An interview can include the interviewer's per-sonal views and biases. An interview can establish a rapport with the subjects. An interview can obtain personal opinions of the subjects. An interview can be guided by the interviewer based on responses of the subjects. 14 / 15 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency that was established to protectworkers from discrimination in the workplace. Which of the fol-lowing could be considered a type ofdiscrimination? A physical therapist choosing a specific exercise based on its simplicity for a patient's home pro-gram A patient requesting to see only a female physi-cal therapist A coworker sharing an off-color, gender-based joke A physical therapist requesting an interpreter to be present during treatment with a Hispanic patient 15 / 15 A physical therapist is documenting information from a treatment session. The patient's active range ofmotion following manual stretching was 120° of flex-ion. Under which portion of the SOAP note does thisinformation fit BEST? Objective Plan Assessment Subjective Your score isThe average score is 3% LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz