Question: True or False? Engaging in an improper act that is unintentional and inconsistent with standard practices is malice.

Answer Options:
True or False?

Answer: False

 

Question: The FOCUS-PDCA stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act and is part of a:

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: A(n) __________ is a mental representation that contains what one knows about an event or thing.

Answer: schema

 

Question: True or False? The Sherman Anti Trust Act prohibits mergers and acquisitions that lessen competition.

Answer Options:
True or False?

Answer: True

 

Question: A physician who believes a medical error occurred due to __________ may be making a fundamental attribution error.

Answer: nurse negligence

 

Question: During the early 1980s, the Hospital Corporation of American (HCA) created the most commonly used quality improvement framework in the health care industry; it is called the:

Answer Options:
A. Process Life Cycle
B. Juran Trilogy
C. SPAC Model
D. PDCA Model
E. FOCUS-PDCA Model

Answer: E. FOCUS-PDCA Model

 

Question: Examples of health care fraud and abuse include:

Answer Options:
A. Claims do not meet medical necessity
B. Duplicate billing
C. Upcoding of services
D. Kickbacks for referrals
E. All of these are correct

Answer: E. All of these are correct

 

Question: Which of the following is an important organizational behavior issue for health care managers?

Answer: Professional autonomy of physicians

 

Question: __________ are mental shortcuts in judgment and decision making.

Answer: Heuristics

 

Question: Managers can best address information misperceptions by:

Answer: encouraging employees to recognize their perceptions and assumptions.

 

Question: Carla is preparing to do a new employee’s initial 6-month evaluation. In reviewing the employee’s progress, Carla recalls a recent incident where the employee’s coding error created serious billing problems for the office and the patient. Forgetting that more-experienced employees frequently sought help from the new worker, Carla downgrades the employee’s appraisal rating. Which of the following terms best describes Carla’s thinking error?

Answer: Availability heuristic

 

Question: Which of the following would a growth mindset leader be most likely to do?

Answer: Praise an employee’s efforts to take on new tasks, even if he or she made some mistakes

 

Question: The identification phase of problem solving involves which of the following?

Answer: Identifying causes of problems and generating solutions

 

Question: Which aspect of quality does CQI focus on to improve quality?

Answer Options:
A. Outcome
B. Structure
C. Process

Answer: C. Process

 

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
B. Diverting a patient to another hospital because they are unable to pay for services
C. Completing a Medical Screening exam and stabilizing the patient
D. Refusing to treat a patient because their benefits are better at a different hospital
E. None of these are correct

Answer: C. Completing a Medical Screening exam and stabilizing the patient