When there is no hope of recovery and death is expected within a year, the medical assistant may be instructed by family members to refer the patient to the services of Hospice.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
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Which of the following situations is NOT typically addressed by EMS system protocols?
A) Triage B) Requirements for continuing education C) Transfer to appropriate facilities D) Mode of patient transportation
A certified medical assistant is constantly updating her knowledge and skills by attending in-services and seminars. This person is practicing which of the "4 Cs of medical malpractice prevention"?
A. caring B. competence C. charting D. communication E. control
A federal law that prohibits facilities from paying referral fees to physicians is the:
a. False claims act. b. Stark law. c. Anti-kickback law. d. Affordable Care Act.
Today is your day to obtain all blood draws in the pediatric unit. You collect all patient lab requisitions from the nurse's station and notice you have 15 patients to draw. As you look through the requisitions, you notice that the ages of your patients range from 3 weeks old to 14 years old. By checking the patients' ages, you realize that you will need to communicate with and identify each patient differently. When you enter your eighth patient's room, you notice that there are no parents or guardians in the room and the nurse is with another patient. You continue entering the room and proceed to identify the patient. The patient is a one-year-old girl who has an IV in her right arm and an oxygen mask on. You check your requisition and compare the patient information to the patient
armband. Everything matches up correctly. Should you or should you not collect the blood sample? Why or why not? A. Yes, it's the correct patient, correct room number, and correct name, and the parents are in the hospital but just in the waiting room. B. No, even though all information matches correctly, you still need verbal confirmation by a parent or by the nurse taking care of this patent. C. Yes, all information matches correctly on the requisition and armband. D. No, the nurse needs to watch you collect the blood sample but cannot at the moment.