The detailed physical assessment is BEST defined as:
A) a careful, thorough process of eliciting the patient's history and conducting an exam.
B) identifying and correcting immediate life-threatening conditions.
C) a problem-oriented assessment based on the patient's chief complaint.
D) detecting trends and determining changes in your patient's condition.
Answer: A
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The medical staff should never place a caller on hold:
A) without asking for permission first. B) without receiving permission. C) for more than 20 to 30 seconds with patient permission. D) without asking for and getting permission; hold time should not exceed 30 seconds.
At 4 pm, a physician requests that you add a culture for Clostridium difficile to a routine stool culture he wrote orders for at 9 am. You will
A) offer to perform toxin detection instead. B) comply with his request. C) request a new specimen due to the delay. D) offer to send the stool to the state public health laboratory.
Which of the following is HAC data used for?
A. Limiting payment to a facility for errors B. Both evaluating patient safety directives and limiting payment to a facility for errors C. Evaluating patient safety directives D. Neither evaluating patient safety directives nor limiting payment to a facility for errors
Which one of the following assessment findings BEST shows that the patient's injury should be classified as an abrasion?
A) Intact skin with ecchymosis noted; patient states minor pain B) The skin is scraped and red; blood oozing from the injury site C) Irregular break in the skin; bleeding moderate but controllable D) Intact skin with large accumulation of dark blood underneath