Test 2 Study Part 3 Flashcards
The core care process that determines the patient’s appropriateness for admission to the facility and the level of care and service to be rendered is called:
a. assessing patient needs
b. planning care, treatment and services
c. providing care, treatment and services
d. coordinating care, treatment and services
assessing patient needs
The use of infection prevention and control measures to protect against possible exposure to infectious agents is called _______.
a. Infectious deterrents
b. Standard measures
c. Standard precautions
d. Infectious measures
Standard precautions
This process icon symbol (square) is used in flowcharting to indicate _________.
a. A process when actions are being performed by humans
b. A point in the process at which participants must evaluate the status of the process
c. Formal procedures that participants are expected to carry out the same way every time.
d. A point in the process where the participants must record data in paper-based or computer-based formats.
Formal procedures that participants are expected to carry out the same way every time.
An infection defined as occurring in a patient in a hospital or healthcare setting in whom it was not present or incubating at the time of the admission is _______.
a. Healthcare associated infection
b. Hospital sickness
c. Community-acquired infection
d. Community sickness
Healthcare associated infection
This QI Toolbox Technique allows a PI team to examine the process under investigation from all directions:
a. Cause-and-effect diagram
b. Affinity diagram
c. Flow chart
d. Critical pathway
Flow chart
Which of the following reportable diseases require telephone reporting as opposed to other methods of reporting?
a. Chickenpox
b. Influenza
c. Measles
d. Pertussis
Measles
The risk manager’s principal tool for capturing the facts about potentially compensable events is the _______.
a. Accident report
b. RM report
c. Occurrence report
d. Event report
Occurrence report
Events that occur in a healthcare organization that do not necessarily affect an outcome but carry significant chance of being a serious adverse event if they were to recur are called ______.
a. Time-out
b. Serious event
c. Sentinel events
d. Near misses
Near misses
A person who represents the rights and interest of another individual as though they were the person’s own is referred to as a patient ______.
a. Advocate
b. Friend
c. Advisor
d. Manager
Advocate
The investigational technique that facilitates the identification of the various factors that contribute to a problem known as a fishbone diagram is also called a/an ________.
a. Pareto chart
b. Cause-and-effect diagram
c. Flowchart
d. Affinity diagram
Cause-and-effect diagram
