Identify the two reasons for government intervention in health care policy
What will be an ideal response?
Private market failure and public consensus for government action
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You are called to an elementary school for an 8-year-old female patient who is experiencing respiratory distress. The school nurse states the patient has an epinephrine auto-injector for a possible anaphylactic reaction to bee stings. The patient also has an Albuterol inhaler for asthma. The patient is breathing 30 times a minute, is in the tripod position, and is speaking in two- to three-word
sentences. The nurse states the patient was playing basketball in the gym when she started having difficulty breathing. The patient has wheezing in all lung fields. An ALS unit is en route but it is 10 minutes away. You are 20 minutes away from the nearest hospital. After placing the patient on oxygen, your next intervention should be to: A) contact medical control and request to assist the patient with her epinephrine. B) provide supportive care until the ALS unit arrives. C) contact medical control and request to assist the patient with her Albuterol. D) cancel the ALS unit and call medical control to assist with the Albuterol administration while en route to the hospital.
You are transporting a critically ill 4-year-old patient. Regarding the panicked and upset mother, you would:
A) Secure the mother to the stretcher and allow her to hold the patient B) Ask the mother to get to the hospital by way of private vehicle C) Secure the mother in the "captain's chair" of the ambulance, behind the patient, during transport to the hospital D) Allow the mother to kneel next to the stretcher so her son can see her
Which device is used to reduce the pressure and control the flow of a compressed medical gas?
a. Bourdon gauge b. Regulator c. Flowmeter d. Reducing valve
Hospital management announces that the annual labor costs ratio is 37%. What does this indicate?
A. careful management of labor costs B. the labor costs are extremely low C. the labor costs are excessively high