UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
Question: Public Hospital
Correct Answer: HHC, owned by federal, state, or local government
Question: Federal Hospitals Veterans Affairs, not open to general public, focuses on providing care to
federal
Correct Answer: beneficiaries
Question: State hospitals
Correct Answer: Public mental hospitals in the United States, run by the individual states (Norwich
State Mental Hospital, Whiting Forensic Institute)
Question: Hospitals are classified by
Correct Answer: Length of stay
Question: Acute care
Correct Answer: Usually <30 days (typical hospital), services to treat and manage sudden, unex-
pected, and/or urgent episode of illness and injury, most hospitals in the US
Question: Long term
Correct Answer: >30 day stay (nursing homes with rehabilitation centers), services to support that
rehabilitation and management of people with chronic conditions
Question: Current status and trends of hospitals 8. Plan-Do-Study-ActA four-step quality improvement
process
Correct Answer: Financial problems, pressure to contain costs and improve quality, pandemic (no
more elective surgeries, reuse ppe nursing burnout), healthcare worker burnout
Question: -Set improvement of goals -Predict what will happen -Plan the cycle (who, where, what and
how) -Decide what data to gather
,Correct Answer: Plan
Question: Do
Correct Answer: -Carry out the plan -Document any problems encountered and observations -Gather
data
Question: Study
Correct Answer: -Fully analyze data -Compare data to predictions -Examine learning
Question: -What changes need to be made to the next cycle? -If not changes, roll out the improvement
-Make it a unit policy if it worked
Correct Answer: Act
Question: -Ambulatory care (wellness, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation) -Physicians Office
-Hospital Emergency Departments -Hospital based out patient clinics -Urgent Care
-Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Correct Answer: Outpatient Ser- vices
Question: Outpatient ser- vices - explained
Correct Answer: Healthcare services that do not require overnight stay that may occur in a medical
office, clinic, hospital, or home
Question: Community Health Centers
Correct Answer: Largest providers of primary and preventive care in the country (medical, dental,
behavioral). Regardless of ability to pay. Located in high need areas, governed by
community board, provide comprehensive primary care, and must achieve
performance objectives.
Question: Provide medical services in a patients home. This care is often provided to elderly or
disabled individuals or patients who are too weak to come to the hospital or decisions office
or have just been released from the hospital.
Correct Answer: Visiting Nurse Agencies
, Question: Employee Assis- tance Programs
Correct Answer: Help employees cope with personal stresses and problems
Question: Hospice care
Correct Answer: Short term care for individuals with less than six months to live with all attempts for
treatment and cure stoped and holy focuses on pain management, quality of life,
comfort, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. Offend provided at home, but
some residential facilities are available.
Question: Palliative Care
Correct Answer: Extra layer of support while care is still going on and has nothing to do with end of
life
Question: All hospice care includes pallia- tive care but....
Correct Answer: not all palliative care is hospice care
Question: Industrial Revo- lution
Correct Answer: -Late 1700s to mid 1800s -Offered better wages than working on family farms
-Children moved from farm to cities to work in manufacturing jobs -No one left to
care for the elderly
Question: Disability Requir- ing Care
Correct Answer: -Mobility, eyesight, hearing, cognition, self-care -20% of all adults -1/3 of all adults
aged 65 and older
Question: Long Term Care Settings
Correct Answer: -Skilled nursing facilities -Assisted living facilities -Senior centers -Continuing care
retirement communities -Respite care -Hospice Care