Patient Care and Education

Question 1

HIPPA

Answer 1

Health insurance portability and accountability act (1996)

Question 2

Quasi-intentional tort

Answer 2

Damage of character, invasion of privacy

Question 3

Non-intentional tort

Answer 3

negligence, malpractice

Question 4

Non-intentional tort

Answer 4

negligence, malpractice

Question 5

Intentional tort

Answer 5

battery, assault, false imprisonment

Question 6

When your patient has a chest tube and there is no bubbling in the water seal bottle, what does this indicate?

Answer 6

A leak in the bottle

Question 7

If consent is signed after treatment has started it is considered

Answer 7

Battery

Question 8

Touching a patient without their permission may be deemed

Answer 8

Battery

Question 9

Which doctrine is an accepted substitute for the medical expert, requiring the defendant to explain an incident and convince the court that no negligence was involved?

Answer 9

doctrine of res ipsa loquitur “the thing speaks for itself”

Question 10

If your patient came in complaining of abdominal pain, nausea and was also experiencing polydipsia and polyuria, they are most likely suffering from

Answer 10

Hyperglycemia

Question 11

Medical asepsis is a condition

Answer 11

without bacteria

Question 12

If disease develops in a susceptible host, the host goes through three disease phases. Which of the following is the correct order?

Answer 12

Incubation, clinical disease, convalescence

Question 13

Which of the following is considered a vector borne transmission?

Answer 13

A fly that transports an infectious agent onto a mosquito that carries the parasite or spore.

Question 14

What diseases require droplet precautions?

Answer 14

Influenza, mumps and rubella

Question 15

Hep B is spread via

Answer 15

blood bourne route

Question 16

What directs health care professionals to avoid harmful actions to patients such as mishandling or mistreating the patients in any manner that may be construed as harmful?

Answer 16

nonmaleficence

Question 17

Benificence is defined as:

Answer 17

the practice of doing good and not harm

Question 18

What diseases are spread via airborne transmission?

Answer 18

TB, measles and varicella

Question 19

MOPP chemo is most likely used for

Answer 19

Hodgkins Lymphoma

Question 20

What chemo causes DNA cross-links?

Answer 20

Alkylating agents

Question 21

The Ann Arbor staging system is important for the classification of:

Answer 21

Hodgkins Lymphoma