A 66-year-old female patient has been struck by a car. Your assessment reveals gurgling respirations, rapid breathing, and cool, diaphoretic skin. You also observe bruising to the chest and abdomen. Which one of the following should you do immediately?
A) Determine the blood pressure.
B) Administer high-concentration oxygen.
C) Evaluate for signs of shock.
D) Suction the airway.
D
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Under EMTALA, hospitals that offer emergency services ___________________.?
A) are free to refuse emergency services to patients who do not show proof of insurance B) ?can refuse emergency services to patients as long as another hospital agrees to accept the patient as a transfer C) must screen and stabilize, if necessary, any patient who arrives in the emergency department D) ?must provide emergency services free of charge to a certain number of individual to meet the EMTALA charity obligations
Explain the Medicare payment adjustment process under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program.
What will be an ideal response?
The Johnson v. Misericordia Community Hospital legal case held that:
A) A psychotherapist had a duty to warn a person that his patient was making threats to harm a third person. B) The hospital had a duty to require that patients be examined by members of the hospital staff who were skilled in the treatment required. C) The hospital did not apply its own credentialing rules and, therefore, did not follow its own standard of care in determining the qualifications of physicians practicing at the facility. D) When a physician withdraws from the contractual relationship with a patient, he must provide the patient with reasonable notice to obtain a new physician or alternative treatment.