Answer Options:
A. 4 to 5 years
\nB. 3 to 10 years
\nC. 6 months to a year
\nD. 2 to 12 years
\nE. 1 to 15 years
Answer: B. 3 to 10 years
Question: Which of the following statements is true about CME?
Answer Options:
A. It is both required by most states for physicians to maintain licensure and accredited by the ACCME.
\nB. It is accredited by the ACCME.
\nC. It is voluntary.
\nD. It is required by most states for physicians to maintain licensure.
\nE. It is art of the criminal background check.
Answer: A. It is both required by most states for physicians to maintain licensure and accredited by the ACCME.
Question: Any practice, policy, or procedure that denies equality of treatment to an individual or to a group because of gender:
Answer Options:
A. is sexual harassment.
\nB. is gender discrimination.
\nC. violates Title VII.
\nD. violates the Civil Rights Acts of 1964.
\nE. is considered illegal if engaged in by a private corporation but acceptable if engaged in by the government.
Answer: B. is gender discrimination.
Question: What do the four letters in the PDCA Model represent?
Answer Options:
A. Plan-Design-Check-Act
\nB. Plan-Design-Control-Achieve
\nC. Plan-Do-Check-Act
\nD. Plan-Do-Check-Achieve
\nE. None of these is correct.
Answer: C. Plan-Do-Check-Act
Question: Which of the following statements about EMTALA is correct?
Answer Options:
A. Requires only hospitals that receive payments from Medicare or Medicaid provide an appropriate medical screening exam.
\nB. Requires only private, for-profit hospitals provide patients an appropriate medical screening exam.
\nC. Requires that any facility with a dedicated emergency department provides patients with an appropriate medical screening exam.
\nD. Mandates that no patient should be billed for services if they cannot pay.
Answer: C. Requires that any facility with a dedicated emergency department provides patients with an appropriate medical screening exam.
Question: Home health aides who work for agencies reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid must:
Answer Options:
A. Be prepared to travel long distances to work.
\nB. Work at their own homes.
\nC. Receive a minimum number of hours of training and pass a competency exam.
\nD. Work at the same level as LPNs.
\nE. Accept whatever assignment they get.
Answer: C. Receive a minimum number of hours of training and pass a competency exam.
Question: Sexual harassment includes which of the following?
Answer Options:
A. Unwelcome sexual advances
\nB. Requests for sexual favors
\nC. Other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature
\nD. All of these are correct
\nE. None of these is correct
Answer: D. All of these are correct
Question: Which of the following statements is true about CME?
Answer Options:
A. It is both required by most states for physicians to maintain licensure and accredited by the ACCME.
\nB. It is accredited by the ACCME.
\nC. It is voluntary.
\nD. It is required by most states for physicians to maintain licensure.
\nE. It is art of the criminal background check.
Answer: A. It is both required by most states for physicians to maintain licensure and accredited by the ACCME.
Question: Which of the following is not true about BSNs?
Answer Options:
A. Must have a good grounding in the biological sciences.
\nB. Must have residency training programs.
\nC. Must pass the NCLEX to obtain state licensure.
\nD. Can go on to become certified in specialty areas.
\nE. All of these are correct.
Answer: B. Must have residency training programs.
Question: The Sunshine Act requires which of the following?
Answer Options:
A. Medical equipment companies to give goods to warm places
\nB. Reporting physician organizations to physician documents to hospitals
\nC. Drug providers or prescribers to fly to destination weddings
\nD. None of these are correct
Answer: D. None of these are correct
Question: In health care, the Lean methodology defines waste as which of the following?
Answer Options:
A. Overproduction and inventory
\nB. Motion and transportation
\nC. Overprocessing and waiting
\nD. Defects and underutilization of staff
\nE. Overproduction, inventory, overprocessing, and waiting
\nF. All of these are correct.
Answer: F. All of these are correct.
Question: Which of the following was the impetus to change resident work hours?
Answer Options:
A. The death of Libby Zion
\nB. Strong unions
\nC. Concerns about paying overtime
\nD. Worries the doctors were too tired
\nE. All of these are correct.
\nF. None of these is correct.
Answer: A. The death of Libby Zion
Question: Violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) include all of the following, except:
Answer Options:
A. dumping a patient on another hospital because they are very sick
\nB. dumping a patient to another hospital because they are unable to pay for services
\nC. completing a medical screening exam and stabilizing the patient
\nD. refusing to treat a patient because their benefits are better at a different hospital
\nE. All of these are violations of EMTALA
Answer: C. completing a medical screening exam and stabilizing the patient
Question: All of the following are examples of a conflict of interest, except:
Answer Options:
A. getting free samples in exchange for ordering that product
\nB. having your spouse buy stock in a biomedical firm that supplies your employer
\nC. going to a CME course sponsored by your medical school
\nD. speaking for a pharmaceutical firm in exchange for a fee
\nE. All of these are examples of a conflict of interest
\nF. None of these is an example of a conflict of interest
Answer: C. going to a CME course sponsored by your medical school
Question: Physician credentialing is:
Answer Options:
A. voluntary
\nB. both part of the criminal background check and time-consuming, costly, and detail-oriented
\nC. verification of information that a physician supplies for staff privileges
\nD. part of the criminal background check
\nE. time-consuming, costly, and detail-oriented
Answer: B. both part of the criminal background check and time-consuming, costly, and detail-oriented
Question: Which of the following was the impetus to change resident work hours?
Answer Options:
A. The death of Libby Zion
\nB. Strong unions
\nC. Concerns about paying overtime
\nD. Worries the doctors were too tired
\nE. All of these are correct.
\nF. None of these is correct.
Answer: A. The death of Libby Zion
Question: Violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) include all of the following, except:
Answer Options:
A. diverting a patient to another hospital because they are very sick.
\nB. dumping a patient onto another hospital because they are unable to pay for services.
\nC. completing a medical screening exam and stabilizing the patient.
\nD. refusing to treat a patient because their benefits are better at a different hospital.
\nE. All of these are violations of EMTALA.
Answer: C. completing a medical screening exam and stabilizing the patient.
Question: Lean is an improvement methodology based on which of the following?
Answer Options:
A. Reduction of variability
\nB. Reduction of fat
\nC. Reduction of defects
\nD. Reduction of waste
Answer: D. Reduction of waste
Question: During the early 1980s, the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) created the most commonly used quality improvement framework in the health care industry, which is called the:
Answer Options:
A. FOCUS-PDCA model
\nB. PDCA model
\nC. Juran trilogy
\nD. APSPCA model
\nE. Six Sigma cycle
Answer: A. FOCUS-PDCA model
Question: ______ employs a structured process called DMAIC, which stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control.
Answer Options:
A. POCUS-PDCA
\nB. Process Process Reengineering
\nC. Greenbelts & Us
\nD. Six Sigma
\nE. Shewhart or Deming Cycle
Answer: D. Six Sigma