NEA BC CORE MAIN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Primary Nursing Model -✔✔A nurse is accountable for planning, evaluating, and
directing the care of a pt 24/7 throughout stay.
✔✔patient classification system -✔✔Method used to group or categorize patients
according to specific criteria and care requirements and thus help quantify the patient
acuity, or amount and level of nursing care needed.
✔✔Social Security Act -✔✔amended to include PPS for medicare beneficiaries
✔✔diagnosis related groups -✔✔medicare fixed fee structure for hospital billing of
inpatient services
based on international classification of disease diagnosis, procedures, age, comorbs.
✔✔Medical Waste -✔✔any solid waste that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or
immunization of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the
production or testing of biologicals
regulated by state environmental and health departments
✔✔patient self determination act -✔✔A federal law that mandates that every individual
has the right to make decisions regarding medical care, including the right to refuse
treatment and the right-to-die
on admission patient must be asked about DPOA, living will and documented responses
✔✔SWOT analysis -✔✔a planning tool used to analyze an organization's strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
✔✔Zero-based budgeting -✔✔a budgeting approach in which each department starts
from zero every year and must justify every item in the budget, rather than simply
adjusting the previous year's budget amounts
,✔✔incremental budgeting -✔✔allocates increased or decreased funds to a department
by using the last budget period as a reference point; only incremental changes in the
budget request are reviewed
✔✔Priority Based Budgeting -✔✔development of a prioritization plan when determining
the allocation of resources
✔✔activity based budgeting -✔✔creating a budget based on costs of key activities and
their relationship to strategic goals
✔✔capital budget -✔✔budget for major capital, or investment, expenditures
✔✔operational budget -✔✔A type of budget that allocates and controls resources to
meet an organization's goals and objectives for the fiscal year
✔✔Labor budget -✔✔Hours of direct labor available for use
subset of operational budget
✔✔Benchmarking -✔✔a process by which a company compares its performance with
that of high-performing organizations
✔✔ANA Principles for Delegating Care -✔✔The nursing profession determines the
scope of nursing practice
The nursing profession defines and supervises UAPs involved in providing direct
nursing care
The RN is responsible and accountable for nursing practice
The RN supervises any assistant providing direct patient care
The purpose of UAP is to work in supportive role to the RN
specifically addressed by each state nurse practice act
✔✔OSHA blood-borne pathogens standard -✔✔designed to protect employees against
occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens
new employees must be offered Hep B vaccination
Hep B Vaccination declination is mandatory
No Hep B titer required
✔✔TB Testing -✔✔not required annually by OSHA
✔✔Needle stick injury -✔✔an accidental puncture wound caused by a used hypodermic
needle. it can transmit infection
OSHA requires org to provide evaluation at no cost, but an employee may decline
✔✔Nurse Reinvestment Act -✔✔provide funds for nursing education, recruitment and
retention programs
, ✔✔Model Nurse Practice Act -✔✔-Published by NCSBN
-educational qualifications and requirements for licensure
-legal titles and abbreviations for nurses
-Disciplinary actions
✔✔America's partnership for nursing education act -✔✔request to amend the public
health service act
would make grants available to state with increasing population growth and projected
nursing shortage
✔✔national nurse act -✔✔amendment to est. the Office of the National Nurse with the
same rank as the deputy Surgeon General
✔✔Privacy rule of HIPAA -✔✔prevents health care plans or providers from disclosing
health information about individuals to others, including their employer
can impose reasonable fees for copying and mailing requested medical records
Do not have to retain tape recorded information
Permits temporary restrictions on individual access to medical info if involved in a
clinical trial
✔✔meta-analysis -✔✔a procedure for statistically combining the results of many
different research studies
can identify patterns across studies, detecting relationships, greater statistical power
✔✔survey research -✔✔gathering primary data by asking people questions about their
knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and behavior
✔✔market research -✔✔The activity of gathering information about consumers' needs
and preferences.
✔✔needs assessment -✔✔a determination of the customer's specific needs and wants
and the range of options the customer has for satisfying them
✔✔IRB (Institutional Review Board) -✔✔Board that reviews research proposals for
ethical violations/procedural errors
Regulated by FDA and DHHS
required if performing research
purpose - protect the rights of participants
✔✔Code of Federal Regulations -✔✔Final rules and regulations that have the force of
the law
no IRB may consist of members all from same profession
IRB board should contain at least one scientist and one non scientist
Special experts may not vote - ad hoc
SURE A+
✔✔Primary Nursing Model -✔✔A nurse is accountable for planning, evaluating, and
directing the care of a pt 24/7 throughout stay.
✔✔patient classification system -✔✔Method used to group or categorize patients
according to specific criteria and care requirements and thus help quantify the patient
acuity, or amount and level of nursing care needed.
✔✔Social Security Act -✔✔amended to include PPS for medicare beneficiaries
✔✔diagnosis related groups -✔✔medicare fixed fee structure for hospital billing of
inpatient services
based on international classification of disease diagnosis, procedures, age, comorbs.
✔✔Medical Waste -✔✔any solid waste that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or
immunization of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the
production or testing of biologicals
regulated by state environmental and health departments
✔✔patient self determination act -✔✔A federal law that mandates that every individual
has the right to make decisions regarding medical care, including the right to refuse
treatment and the right-to-die
on admission patient must be asked about DPOA, living will and documented responses
✔✔SWOT analysis -✔✔a planning tool used to analyze an organization's strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
✔✔Zero-based budgeting -✔✔a budgeting approach in which each department starts
from zero every year and must justify every item in the budget, rather than simply
adjusting the previous year's budget amounts
,✔✔incremental budgeting -✔✔allocates increased or decreased funds to a department
by using the last budget period as a reference point; only incremental changes in the
budget request are reviewed
✔✔Priority Based Budgeting -✔✔development of a prioritization plan when determining
the allocation of resources
✔✔activity based budgeting -✔✔creating a budget based on costs of key activities and
their relationship to strategic goals
✔✔capital budget -✔✔budget for major capital, or investment, expenditures
✔✔operational budget -✔✔A type of budget that allocates and controls resources to
meet an organization's goals and objectives for the fiscal year
✔✔Labor budget -✔✔Hours of direct labor available for use
subset of operational budget
✔✔Benchmarking -✔✔a process by which a company compares its performance with
that of high-performing organizations
✔✔ANA Principles for Delegating Care -✔✔The nursing profession determines the
scope of nursing practice
The nursing profession defines and supervises UAPs involved in providing direct
nursing care
The RN is responsible and accountable for nursing practice
The RN supervises any assistant providing direct patient care
The purpose of UAP is to work in supportive role to the RN
specifically addressed by each state nurse practice act
✔✔OSHA blood-borne pathogens standard -✔✔designed to protect employees against
occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens
new employees must be offered Hep B vaccination
Hep B Vaccination declination is mandatory
No Hep B titer required
✔✔TB Testing -✔✔not required annually by OSHA
✔✔Needle stick injury -✔✔an accidental puncture wound caused by a used hypodermic
needle. it can transmit infection
OSHA requires org to provide evaluation at no cost, but an employee may decline
✔✔Nurse Reinvestment Act -✔✔provide funds for nursing education, recruitment and
retention programs
, ✔✔Model Nurse Practice Act -✔✔-Published by NCSBN
-educational qualifications and requirements for licensure
-legal titles and abbreviations for nurses
-Disciplinary actions
✔✔America's partnership for nursing education act -✔✔request to amend the public
health service act
would make grants available to state with increasing population growth and projected
nursing shortage
✔✔national nurse act -✔✔amendment to est. the Office of the National Nurse with the
same rank as the deputy Surgeon General
✔✔Privacy rule of HIPAA -✔✔prevents health care plans or providers from disclosing
health information about individuals to others, including their employer
can impose reasonable fees for copying and mailing requested medical records
Do not have to retain tape recorded information
Permits temporary restrictions on individual access to medical info if involved in a
clinical trial
✔✔meta-analysis -✔✔a procedure for statistically combining the results of many
different research studies
can identify patterns across studies, detecting relationships, greater statistical power
✔✔survey research -✔✔gathering primary data by asking people questions about their
knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and behavior
✔✔market research -✔✔The activity of gathering information about consumers' needs
and preferences.
✔✔needs assessment -✔✔a determination of the customer's specific needs and wants
and the range of options the customer has for satisfying them
✔✔IRB (Institutional Review Board) -✔✔Board that reviews research proposals for
ethical violations/procedural errors
Regulated by FDA and DHHS
required if performing research
purpose - protect the rights of participants
✔✔Code of Federal Regulations -✔✔Final rules and regulations that have the force of
the law
no IRB may consist of members all from same profession
IRB board should contain at least one scientist and one non scientist
Special experts may not vote - ad hoc
