Unit I
Legal Stuff
Legal Stuff
The purpose of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is to:
a. create a smooth flow of patient information.
b. hold health professionals to a professional code of ethics.
c. protect the public from information that could be potentially harmful.
d. ensure information is kept confidential.
d. ensure information is kept confidential.
_________ focus mainly on what is directly observable.
a. Behaviorists
b. Cognitions
c. Social theorists
d. Physicians
a. Behaviorists
__________ is the art and science of helping children learn; __________ is the art and science of helping adults learn.
a. Learning; knowledge
b. Pedagogy; andragogy
c. Pediatrics; geriatrics
d. Psychology; sociology
b. Pedagogy; andragogy
A patient learning assessment reveals that a patient has extreme difficulty comprehending medical terms, even when they are carefully explained in lay terms. This would be classified as:
a. functional illiteracy.
b. computer illiteracy.
c. health illiteracy.
d. low literacy.
c. health illiteracy.
The most effective instructional strategies for student retention involve which of the following?
a. Speaking and seeing
b. Seeing and hearing
c. Hearing and doing
d. Speaking and doing
d. Speaking and doing
The American Hospital Association’s A Patient’s Bill of Rights refers to:
a. the patient’s right to be admitted to a hospital or long-term care facility.
b. a code of behavior for healthcare institutions in each state.
c. federal standards of care dictating humane treatment of patients.
d. rights of the patient related to quantity and quality of healthcare services delivered.
d. rights of the patient related to quantity and quality of healthcare services delivered
For __________ conditioning to be effective, it is necessary to assess what kinds of reinforcement are likely to increase or decrease behaviors for each individual.
a. Respondent
b. Operant
c. Avoidance
d. Escape
b. Operant
An individual’s sense of responsibility for his or her own behavior and the extent to which motivation will take action originates from within the self (internal) or is influenced by others (external). This concept is known as:
a. locus of control.
b. internal barriers.
c. compliance.
d. motivation.
a. locus of control.
__________ is based on a measure of a number of different elements within a given text of printed material such as level of language being used and layout and design of the page.
a. Comprehension
b. Intelligence
c. Readability
d. Disability
c. Readability
The affective domain is also known as the:
a. sensing domain.
b. processing domain.
c. feeling domain.
d. judging domain.
c. feeling domain.
The patient has signed a consent form to have a procedure done. Which action should the health professional take to verify the patient’s understanding of the procedure?
a. Check whether the patient’s reading level is equivalent to the level of the consent form.
b. Talk with a family member or health professional who witnessed the patient’s signature on the consent form.
c. Ask the patient to explain the procedure in his or her own words.
d. Discuss with the patient’s physician what the patient was told about the procedure.
c. Ask the patient to explain the procedure in his or her own words.
__________ emphasizes the importance of perception in learning and lays the groundwork for the various other cognitive perspectives that followed.
a. The gestalt perspective
b. Metacognition
c. Information processing
d. Cognitive development
a. The gestalt perspective
Self-efficacy theory can best be applied by health profession educators in:
a. assessing learner motivation.
b. predicting the likelihood of changes in behavior.
c. measuring competence.
d. cognitive protection.
b. predicting the likelihood of changes in behavior.
In developing printed educational materials, what reading level is recommended?
a. Fifth grade reading level or below
b. Eighth grade reading level
c. Tenth grade reading level
d. Twelfth to fourteenth grade reading level
a. Fifth grade reading level or below
Adjustments in personnel, materials, facilities, learning objectives, or attitudes would be examples of purposes for what type of assessment?
a. Summative
b. Formative
c. Evaluative
d. Inclusive
b. Formative
An ethical educational dilemma is evidenced in which of the following scenarios?
a. A patient scheduled for a below-the-knee amputation is informed of options, potential complications, and consequences prior to signing an informed consent form.
b. A student requests a grade change from a faculty member to increase their grade point average to remain in the healthcare program.
c. A patient has been accurately informed about a diagnostic test, has signed the consent, and then decides not to have the procedure. The physician insists the test be completed.
d. A healthcare educator is evaluating an expert practitioner during an annual skill validation session and gives the individual an unsatisfactory for performance that does not meet the outcome criteria.
c. A patient has been accurately informed about a diagnostic test, has signed the consent, and then decides not to have the procedure. The physician insists the test be completed.
Both patients and staff are fond of Dr. Cara. She consistently appears attuned to people’s feelings, and she encourages terminally ill patients and their families to get in touch with their feelings and to discover growth and learning from their experience. This represents which learning theory in its application to healthcare practice?
a. Cognitive
b. Humanistic
c. Psychodynamic
d. Social learning
b. Humanistic
__________ are premises on which an understanding of a phenomenon is based.
a. Incentives
b. Constructs
c. Axioms
d. Motivators
c. Axioms
Individuals with normal hearing, an inability to understand writing or speech, and who have difficulty with recall and retention have which of the following?
a. Expressive aphasia
b. Receptive aphasia
c. Dysarthria
d. Mental illness
b. Receptive aphasia
__________ occurs at a circumscribed point in time, immediately after completion of teaching, but encompasses all teaching–learning activities included in that specific learning experience.
a. Content evaluation
b. Individualized intervention
c. Formative assessment
d. Outcome evaluation
a. Content evaluation
True or False.
Hospital stays being shorter and use of service decreasing is an example of cost savings.
True
When dealing with the teaching–learning process, it is imperative to examine the __________ phases as individuals progress from infancy to senescence so as to fully appreciate the behavioral changes that occur in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.
a. biological
b. developmental
c. psychological
d. sociocultural
b. developmental
A patient stated to a dietician during a consultation regarding a weight reduction diet, “I’ve tried many diets and nothing works for long.” The patient is in which stage of change?
a. Precontemplation
b. Contemplation
c. Preparation
d. Action
b. Contemplation
By noting whether clients are able to demonstrate correctly or recall in their own words the message that was received, a healthcare educator can determine the patient’s level of:
a. comprehension.
b. intelligence.
c. readability.
d. disability.
a. comprehension.
When the “most relevant and best research,” “one’s own clinical expertise,” and “patient preferences” are used to make clinical decisions, the process is termed:
a. evaluation.
b. evidence-based practice.
c. practice-based evidence.
d. research.
b. evidence-based practice.