U.S. Healthcare System
Medicaid
What is the difference between droplet precautions and airborne precautions?
Droplet required a simple surgical mask and airborne requires an N-95 mask
The nurse is educating an adolescent patient recently diagnosed with asthma about using an inhaler. The nurse demonstrates how the inhaler is used and the patient then attempts to use the inhaler. Which learning domain is demonstrated in this scenario.
Psychomotor
The nurse is documenting a written assessment note and has empty space on the last line of the chart. What is the correct next step for the nurse to complete documentation?
Put a line through the blank space, then place their signature.
These patient needs relate to meaning, purpose, hope, connection, and inner peace during illness.
Spiritual needs
What is the purpose of the American Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The ADA prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and ensures they have equal rights and opportunities in all areas of public life.
Which bodily fluids does standard precautions apply to?
Blood, urine, feces, sputum, wound drainage
This teaching strategy asks patients to repeat information in their own words to confirm understanding.
Teach-back method
Name an example of a nurse performing a breach of client confidentiality.
Posting patient information or clinical experiences on social media
Looking up a patient’s medical record without a care‑related reason
Leaving a computer logged into an open electronic health record
Discussing a patient with friends or family outside the healthcare setting
Why is person-centered care important in professional nursing practice?
It improves patient satisfaction and outcomes
It improves patient safety
Patients and families feel respected, seen, heard, etc.
A set of goals for U.S. citizens published every 10 years by the federal government.
Healthy People (2030)
An infection acquired during a hospital stay, that was not present on admission.
Nosocomial infection
The community nurse is working with a group of Girl Scouts going through scenarios for scouts to participate in. What educational strategy is the nurse demonstrating?
Role-playing
Violating HIPAA can result in several different consequences. Name at least 2 of those consequences.
Consequences may include fines, loss of employment, RN license suspension, and legal action.
What is demonstrated when the nurse asks a patient about beliefs or practices important to them supports this aspect of person‑centered care?
Cultural sensitivity or respect
This hospital payment system groups patients based on diagnosis and care provided to determine reimbursement.
Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs)
What type of isolation precautions are required for a patient infected with Clostridioides difficile (c. diff)?
Contact
Effective patient education should be tailored to this patient factor, including reading level and ability to understand health information
Health literacy
A new nurse realizes she documented her patient assessment in the wrong patient's chart. What is the correct course of action for the nurse?
Follow hospital or organizational policy for steps to modify a patient's chart due to incorrect documentation.
When a nurse honors a patient’s right to accept or refuse treatment after receiving information demonstrates which ethical principle?
Patient autonomy
What is the difference between a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)?
HMO- less premium cost, select a primary care provider, need a referral to see specialists, organization pays only for in network providers.
PPO- increased premium cost, no referrals needed, organization pays more for in-network providers and a smaller percentage for out-of-network providers.
An infection caused unintentionally by medical or nursing care, procedures, or treatments.
Iatrogenic infections
This collaborative approach involves nurses working with physicians, therapists, social workers, and other professionals to provide safe, patient‑centered care.
Interprofessional collaboration
The nurse enters the patient's room and finds the patient on the floor. The patient tells the nurse that they fell out of bed. How should the nurse correctly document this occurrence?
Nurse entered room and found patient awake and alert on floor beside patient's bed. Patient states they fell when trying to get out of bed and ambulate to bathroom.
These United Nations goals aimed to reduce poverty, improve health and education, and promote global equality by 2015
The Millennium Goals