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When evaluating a patient in the acute care setting, which of the following is the most important first step for the physical therapist?

Your patient is unable to participate in therapy and has been bed bound for 2 years prior to admission. What is the MOST appropriate course of action? 

A 72-year-old female with a history of dementia is scheduled for discharge from the hospital after being admitted due to dehydration and increased confusion.  Currently, she can ambulate and perform activities of daily living only with supervision due to her cognitive deficits. She no longer needs close medical supervision for her condition. Before her hospitalization, she lived alone in a first-floor apartment. She has no family living within 2 hours of her apartment and has limited financial resources while enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate discharge recommendation?

All of the following would contraindicate therapy in the ICU EXCEPT? 

Using the following uniform density curve, answer the question. What is the probability that the random variable has a value between 5.3 and 5.7?

Solve the problem. Round to the nearest tenth unless indicated otherwise.Suppose that replacement times for washing machines are normally distributed with a mean of 8.4 years and a standard deviation of 2 years. Find the replacement time that separates the top 18% from the bottom 82%.

2. Life magazine noted in 1959 that baby boomer parents and their children differed in views about possessions.  The children viewed their demands as   A. necessities.  B. luxuries.   C. occasional indulgences.    D. all of these.

5. Much like today, there was a debate of how to deal with gangs. Possible solutions of that time included all except   A. forced military service.   B. modifying and improving education.  C. military patrols of streets.   D. increasing government intervention.

What are enacted stigma, anticipated stigma, and internalized stigma? Briefly define them in your own words and give an example of each.

10. Critics blamed television for inducing “narcotic dysfunction.”  This was   A. the promotion and glorification of drugs on TV shows.  B. the habit of men watching TV after dinner and dozing into an unreal world.   C. the erosion of certain basic skills.