The nurse is teaching an antepartum patient how to self administer subcutaneous heparin for the prevention of DVT.  Her home maintenance dose will be 17,000 Units of heparin (SQ) subcutaneously daily.  She has available vials which contain 20,000 Units per 1 mL.  What volume (mL’s) of heparin should the nurse be teaching her to give herself?  If final answer less than 1 mL round to hundredths, more than 1 mL round to the tenths.

Health care resource allocation centered around curative services at a significant cost, that neglect the potential of primary care and health promotion leading to decreased disease burden is referred to as:

The systematic maintenance and improvement of knowledge, skills, and abilities throughout one’s professional career is known as:

Which of the following behaviors involves questioning the patient/client in a supportive way to request more information or clear up any confusion.

During a patient interview, a student physical therapist in Clinical Internship I changes his/her plan to follow a certain sequence of questions with the goal of facilitating rapport, increasing the therapeutic alliance and allowing the patient to guide the interview. This is an example of what type of reflection?

When a physical therapist and occupational therapist work together on a spinal cord injury unit in an acute rehabilitation facilility they will each complete separate and distinct initial evaluations (IEs) of an assigned patient within their scope of practice. Which of the following examples accurately describe the differences in the scope of practice of the OT and PT when performing these (IEs)?

Systematized discrimination or exclusion directed against people with disabilities based on the belief that “normal ability” is superior and there is one right way to have a mind/body is called:

The discharge planning process begins on the day a patient is admitted to an acute care setting.  

The Social Model of Disability states:

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states: