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Which of the following pieces of information would be best obtained from the patient’s medical record?

DME means:

In order to qualify as “skilled care,” the treatment:

List 2 reasons it is important for physical therapist assistants to be members of the APTA?

“Initiate stair training next session” is most consistent with the assessment section of a SOAP note. 

In developing a home exercise program (HEP), the following guidelines should be followed except:  

Which of the following statements about words is most accurate?

Patient-related instructions are documented in the assessment section of the SOAP note. 

You are working with a 5 year old boy who is admitted to the hospital s/p motor vehicle accident (MVA).  He has undergone an open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) to his L tibia and fibula and R humerus.  You are seeing him for physical therapy.  The rating scale most appropriate to use to assess his pain is:

You just completed your SOAP note and realized you forgot to document stair negotiation.  To remedy this issue, you would add and addendum to the note and then sign and date