PTA Professional Responsibilities
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Taylor is attending her first follow-up appointment for right calcific tendinitis. A PTA is treating the patient and needs to make an appropriate decision about following an unspecified directive in the plan of care.
The physical therapist is challenged with determining what is the responsibility and appropriate decision making of a PTA under general supervision.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files, two mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:07.0 | week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT Clinical Files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT |
| 0:12.3 | PrEPP Coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching |
| 0:17.3 | Program. And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific |
| 0:22.4 | question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to |
| 0:27.7 | get that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient Taylor. And Taylor is |
| 0:33.1 | attending her first follow-up PT appointment to address her right superspinitis calcific tendonitis. |
| 0:41.1 | Her plan of care mentions the use of iontopheresis with acetic acid. |
| 0:46.0 | However, the parameters are not specified. |
| 0:48.3 | Which of the following is the most appropriate action of the PTA under general supervision. All right. So we got A, |
| 0:56.5 | whole PT treatment. B is perform iontopheresis using clinical judgment and patient tolerance. |
| 1:03.3 | C is continue with the plan of care but hold the use of iontopheresis. And d is to continue with the plan of care with an ionopheresis |
| 1:15.9 | dosage of 10 millie amp minutes all right so we need to go ahead start crushing this knocking |
| 1:22.5 | his puppy out so let's go ahead and start off at the top. We see Taylor is attending her first follow-up |
| 1:28.8 | PT appointment. Cool. Not the major there, right? She's there to address her right super spanish |
| 1:35.3 | calcific tendinitis. Not a lot is really jumping out at me in this first sentence. However, |
| 1:41.3 | I am keeping in the back of my mind that she does have that right super spanishous calcific tendinitis. All right. So that's important. However, I am keeping in the back of my mind that she does have that right super spanishous |
| 1:45.3 | calcific tendonitis. All right. So that's important. Now, as we continue down the line, it says her |
| 1:50.3 | plan of care mentions the use of iontophoresisus with acetic acid. However, the parameters are not |
| 1:59.1 | specified. All right, so let's go ahead and break that up into a couple different pieces. |
| 2:03.3 | So we got Her Plan of Care mentions the use of iontophrases with acetic acid. |
| 2:07.6 | You know what? |
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