Your patient has been prone for 2 hours.  Which of the following best describes the complications you need to minimize?

Phil had a stroke 2 weeks ago.  He is now a patient in the skilled nursing facility, where you work on weekends.   Because it is a beautiful day out, you find him in the far corner of the garden enjoying the sun and flowers.  You will need to wheel him back into the building and to the rehab gym.  Prior to lowering Phil’s wheelchair down a curb, which of the following would be most appropriate for you to do?

Tom is a 16 year old high school football player who is coming to outpatient physical therapy due to a sprained deltoid ligament in his left ankle.  Today’s visit was the first time that he used the treadmill.  You took his heart rate when he first came in, right after he got off the treadmill and 5 minutes after he got off of the treadmill.  When he first came in, you counted 10 beats in a 10 second interval.  Right after he ran on the treadmill, you counted 50 beats in a 30 second interval.  Five minutes after he was done with the treadmill, you counted 70 beats in a 60 second interval.  You also took Tom’s BP (blood pressure) before and after he ran on the treadmill. Part of Tom’s PT treatment includes standing heel raises to strengthen his gastrocnemius.  As Tom lowers his heels back to the floor, which type of muscle contraction is occurring in his gastrocnemius?

Which of the following statements regarding sterile packages is TRUE?

You are treating Joel, a 22 year old PT student, in the local hospital.  He has been diagnosed with Tuberculosis of the lungs.  He is experiencing coughing, difficulty breathing and fatigue.  The PT wants you to strengthen the prime mover for ventilation. Which of the following vital signs is most likely to fall outside of normal parameters?

You are a student in a SNF (skilled nursing facility).  Your CI (Clinical Instructor) asks you to walk with William twice around the nurse’s station, measure his self-selected gait speed, and assess his vital signs.  You have observed your CI work with William before, so you already know that he had a stroke in the right hemisphere of his brain and that the left side of his body has spasticity (very high tone in his muscles that makes him VERY stiff).  Before entering his room, you read William’s chart and note that he has CDIF (clostridium difficile) and that he is taking an anti-depressant and beta-blockers (an antihypertensive medication). When you are done working with William, which of the following methods of hand hygiene will you choose to perform?

Your sister Karen, calls you to inform you that her husband Pat has a staph infection.  Karen states, “I have no clue how this happened!  He had a small scrape in the crook of his right elbow and it all of a sudden turned into puss-filled boils!”  Karen informs you that Pat has swelling and redness in the crook of his right elbow, which is painful.    You head to Karen and Pat’s house after work.  You observe for yourself that Pat’s infection is located on the anterior right elbow.  When the infected skin is stretched, Pat experiences pain.  Which of the following will cause Pat pain?

Which of the following is the most important method of reducing the spread of infection?

Tom is a 16 year old high school football player who is coming to outpatient physical therapy due to a sprained deltoid ligament in his left ankle.  Today’s visit was the first time that he used the treadmill.  You took his heart rate when he first came in, right after he got off the treadmill and 5 minutes after he got off of the treadmill.  When he first came in, you counted 10 beats in a 10 second interval.  Right after he ran on the treadmill, you counted 50 beats in a 30 second interval.  Five minutes after he was done with the treadmill, you counted 70 beats in a 60 second interval.  You also took Tom’s BP (blood pressure) before and after he ran on the treadmill. Tom reports pain with palpation of the affected area and with ankle motion that stresses the deltoid ligament.  To determine if there has been any change in Tom’s pain levels during subsequent visits, which of the following areas should you palpate?

On Saturday morning, your Aunt calls you with a concern about your cousin.  Knowing that you are in PTA school, she asks if you can come over and take your cousin’s vital signs.  Your cousin’s pulse seems high to your aunt.  You grab your sphygmomanometer and head over to your aunt’s house.  When you take your cousin’s pulse, it is 135 bpm.  You tell your aunt that this is considered normal.  Your aunt is so relieved that she gives you a big hug.  She then states that she was so nervous that her heart rate is probably elevated!  Just to be sure, you check your aunt’s heart rate as well, using the radial pulse. After you take your aunt’s pulse, she asks you to take her blood pressure.  You inform her that you will take her blood pressure on her right arm and you inform her that she should never let anyone take it on her left arm.  Which of the following led you to make this decision?