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

You work as a physical therapist in an acute care hospital and your current patient has been admitted secondary to a stroke and remains medically unstable. You check with the charge nurse regarding the patient’s lab values for that day to determine whether he is appropriate for therapy. Which of the following patient’s lab values would MOST likely cause you to discontinue physical therapy for the day?

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

A physical therapy patient has a platelet count of 15,000/µL. Which of the following interventions is most appropriate?

Solve the problem.Suppose that replacement times for washing machines are normally distributed with a mean of and a standard deviation of 1.1 years. Find the probability that 70 randomly selected washing machines will have a mean replacement time less than

Solve the problem.The scores on a certain test are normally distributed with a mean score of 60 and a standard deviation of 5. What is the probability that a sample of 90 students will have a mean score of at least 60.527?

Solve the problem. Round to the nearest tenth unless indicated otherwise.The weights of certain machine components are normally distributed with a mean of 8.01 g and a standard deviation of 0.06 g. Find the two weights that separate the top 3% and the bottom 3%. These weights could serve as limits used to identify which components should be rejected. Round to the nearest hundredth of a gram.

Solve the problem.For women aged 18-24, systolic blood pressures (in mm Hg) are normally distributed with a mean of 114.8 and a standard deviation of 13.1. If 23 women aged 18-24 are randomly selected, find the probability that their mean systolic blood pressure is between 119 and 122.

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

3. The Baby Boomers are identified as   A. a shrinking market.   B. a harmless menace.   C. an economic force  D. the beginning of the nation’s demise.