In administering an assessment of fingertip pinch strength, the OT practitioner would instruct the individual being tested to place his or her fingers in
... [Show More] which position?
A. Thumb against the tip of the index finger.
B. Thumb against the side of the index finger.
C. Thumb against the tips of the index and middle fingers.
D. Thumb against the tips of all the fingers at once.
A. Thumb against the tip of the index finger.
The COTA is observing dressing skills in an individual with COPD. While putting on his shirt, the individual becomes short of breath and stops to rest before finishing with the shirt and going on to his trousers. This behavior MOST likely indicates a deficit in:
A. Postural control
B. Muscle tone
C. Strength
D. Endurance
D. Endurance
In screening a child who has been referred to OT, the PRIMARY goal of the OT practitioner is to:
A. Obtain necessary information for an OT consultation with teachers or parents.
B. Test a wide variety of developmental behaviors.
C. Establish an information base for the OT treatment plan.
D. Determine the need for further evaluation.
D. Determine the need for further evaluation.
An individual who had a stroke is copying a picture of a clock. The drawing appears as a lopsided circle with a flat side on the left. The numbers one through 8 are written in numerical order around the right side of the clock. The hands are correctly drawn on the clock to represent 3:00. The individual's performance appears to demonstrate:
A. Right hemianopsia*
B. Left unilateral neglect
C. Cataracts in the left eye
D. Bitemporal hemianopia*
B. Left unilateral neglect
An OT practitioner is making a home visit to an elderly who lives alone. The client exhibits severe hand weakness. When addressing safety in the home, the MOST important area to assess is the individual's ability to:
A. work locks and latches on doors and windows.
B. Use built- up utensils while eating.
C. Use energy conservation techniques.
D. Manipulate fasteners on clothing.
A. work locks and latches on doors and windows.
A COTA is scheduled to interview an individual with a head injury about her home environment, and family and child care responsibilities. Knowing the individual has an attention span of 10 to 15 minutes, which of the following should the COTA do FIRST?
A. Schedule a 30 minute treatment session.
B. Obtain as much information as possible from the chart.
C. Interview the individual using appropriate verbal and nonverbal communication.
D. Perform the interview in an environment where distractions can be minimized.
B. Obtain as much information as possible from the chart.
An individual is able to complete full range of shoulder flexion while in a side-lying position during an evaluation. However, against gravity, the client is not quite able to achieve 50% of the range for shoulder flexion. This muscle should be graded as:
A. Good {4}
B. Fair {3}
C. Fair minus {-3}
D. Poor plus {2+}
C. Fair minus {3-}
The mother of a 3 month old infant recently returned to her job as a bookkeeper on a part-time basis. She reports that she has difficulty concentrating at work because she keeps thinking about the baby, and that when she is at home, she is distracted because she feels she should be at work. This PRIMARILY indicates a problem in the area of:
A. Parenting skills
B. Attention span
C. Assertiveness
D. Role performance
D. Role performance
In planning a therapeutic dressing intervention for a first-grade child who is mentally retarded, the COTA's FIRST consideration should be the need for:
A. Adaptive equipment
B. Adaptive clothing
C. Proper positioning
D. Adapted teaching techniques
D. Adapted teaching techniques
Which of the following interventions is MOST appropriate for an individual who has recently been diagnosed with RA and is in the acute stage of the disease?
A. Strengthening with resistive exercises.
B. Positioning, adaptive equipment, and patient education.
C. Discharge planning
D. Preparing the patient for surgical intervention.
B. Positioning, adaptive equipment, and patient education.
The COTA is selecting activities for an 8 year old child with Duchenne's MD. Which of the following developmental issues is MOST important to consider when identifying activities for this child?
A. Established of basic trust.
B. Freedom to use his initiative.
C. Development of self-identity.
D. Reinforcement of competence.
D. Reinforcement of competence.
A COTA is working with a patient recovering from a hand injury who complains of pain when any sensation is felt on the affected hand. In planning a program of desensitization training for the patient, the MOST appropriate sequence for grading the sensory stimuli that will be applied to the patient's hand is from:
A. Soft to hard to rough
B. Tap to rub to touch
C. Light to medium to heavy
D. Rough to hard to soft
A. Soft to hard to rough
A COTA is preparing a work conditioning program for a patient who has decreased endurance. The COTA's FIRST step in developing a work conditioning program for this patient would be:
A. Implementing, adapting, or modifying work activities.
B. Creating nonspecific job simulated work tasks.
C. Implementing job-specific work tasks.
D. Creating a simulated work environment.
B. Creating nonspecific job simulated work tasks.
The COTA reviews various functional activities that are being incorporated into her client's hand rehabilitation program. The COTA explains to the client that functional activities may include:
A. Active ROM and self range of motion techniques.
B. Crafts, games, and self-care tasks.
C. Cone stacking, pegs and pulleys/
D. Mild, moderate, and resistive thera-band exercises.
B. Crafts, games, and self-care tasks. [Show Less]