Part 8 Flashcards
Which core process area is concern addressed for: social, spiritual, and cultural variables that influence the patient’s and family members’ perception of their lives?
A. Assessing the patient’s needs
B. Planning care, treatment, and services
C. Coordinating care, treatment, and services
D. Providing care, treatment, and services
Assessing the patient’s needs
Care processes or interventions that developed from research performed on large population-based studies in order to achieve the best patient care outcomes are called __________.
A. Healthcare monitoring
B. Evidence-based medicine
C. Patient-centered care
D. Clinical guidelines
Evidence-based medicine
Publicly reported data and information about nursing home quality of care is located on the nursing home compare website. This data is generated from the nursing home’s __________.
A. Facility quality-indicator profile
B. National patient safety goals
C. Core processes
D. Evidence-based medicine
Facility quality-indicator profile
Respect for patients’ values, preferences, and expressed needs is one aspect of __________.
A. Patient-centered care
B. Consumer advocacy
C. Managed care
D. Clinical practice standards
Patient-centered care
A telecommunications system that links healthcare organizations and patients from diverse geographic locations and transmits text and images for medical consultation and treatment is called _________.
A. Telehealth
B. Cellular health
C. Patient-centered care
D. Patient assessment
Telehealth
Elsie was admitted to RoseHill nursing facility for rehabilitation following her hip fracture. Upon admission to RoseHill, the nursing staff assessed Elsie in multiple areas, some of which are cognitive loss, mood, vision function, pain, and the medications she is taking. This information will be recorded in her health record for the _________.
A. Minimum data set to plan her care
B. Pay for performance initiatives to manage payment
C. Requirements necessary from the CDC
D. Identification of patients for NPSGs
Minimum data set to plan her care
Nurse Joan is working in the ICU at University Hospital. She is carrying out Dr. Jones’ order for a medication prescribed to one of her patients. She has received the medication and is preparing to administer it to the patient. Upon entering the patient’s room, she asks the patient his name and date of birth, and compares the information to the label on the medication. Joan then administers medication to the patient. This scenario Nisan example of _________.
A. Preventing wrong patient mistakes that can be made in surgery
B. Improving communication between hospital staff
C. Identifying patient safety risks
D. Using two patient identifiers to verify patient identity
Using two patient identifiers to verify patient identity
An infection that was present in the patient before he or she was admitted to the facility is called _____.
A. healthcare-acquired infection
B. hospital sickness
C. community-acquired infection
D. community sickness
community-acquired infection
The symbol in flowcharting that is used to mark the point in the process where the analysis skips to another common point of the process is called _________.
A. Connector Icon
B. Line connector icon
C. Process icon
D. Terminator icon
Connector Icon
Bacteria of any kind that has become resistant to many different antibiotics is called _____.
A. CLIA
B. NPSGs
C. MDROs
D. SARS
MDROs
