List five areas in which The Joint Commission has standards that they review to accredit healthcare facilities

What will be an ideal response?


Answers should include any five of the following:
• Environment of care
• Emergency management
• Human resources
• Infection prevention and control
• Information management
• Leadership
• Life safety
• Medication management
• National patient safety goals
• Performance improvement
• Provision of care, treatment, and services
• Record of care, treatment, and services
• Rights and responsibilities of the individual
• Transplant safety
• Waived testing

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A patient who has a history of CABG in 1978 has had a:

a. coronary artery bypass graft. b. chronic abdominal growth. c. calcium arterial blockage. d. cardiac artery balloongeoplasty.

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Nitroglycerine is contraindicated in patients with _________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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When reviewing a cardiac rhythm strip, the respiratory therapist notices that there are three large boxes between two QRS complexes. Approximately what is this patient's heart rate?

a. 60 b. 75 c. 100 d. 150

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