The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects which of the following?
A. A patient's right to be insured, regardless of employment status or ability to pay
B. The confidentiality of certain protected health
information
C. The nurse's right to health insurance
D. The hospital's right to disclose protected health information
B. The confidentiality of certain protected health informatio
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A successful nurse manager is mentoring a newly promoted nurse manager. Which comment by the mentor reflects the most important consideration of all nurse managers?
1. "You must work to develop your staff's competencies." 2. "Take your role on the strategic planning committee very seriously." 3. "Your most important role is to ensure client care accountability." 4. "Fiscal resource management is the most important aspect of your job."
An advanced practice nurse has performed a Rinne test on a new patient. During the test, the patient reports that air-conducted sound is louder than bone-conducted sound. How should the nurse best interpret this assessment finding?
A) The patient's hearing is likely normal. B) The patient is at risk for tinnitus. C) The patient likely has otosclerosis. D) The patient likely has sensorineural hearing loss.
A patient is recovering from surgery and needs approximately 10 more days for rehabilitation and strengthening before returning home. The best care facility for this patient would be:
a. an inpatient rehabili-tation center c. an ambulatory clinic b. a subacute rehabilitation unit d. an acute care hospital
The nurse's functional self-esteem is very low after a week of taking care of several clients who have unexpectedly died. What fact about self-esteem should this nurse remember?
1. Even during bad times, functional self-esteem will not regress to a level lower than basic self-esteem. 2. It is important to focus on errors that contributed to client death. 3. Functional self-esteem develops early in life and shouldn't change related to situational problems. 4. It is normal for self-esteem to fluctuate related to daily events and problems.