WGU C843 KOP2 TASK 1
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Why would a credentialing officer access the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)?
ANSWER
To review a practitioner's professional credentials data
Question 2.
A nurse at a long-term care facility is documenting a comprehensive assessment into the patient's
medical record.
What must the record include to meet Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
requirements?
ANSWER
Minimum Data Set (MDS)
Question 3.
Which method of disposal would cause compliance issues for records that have met their required
retention?
ANSWER
Records that are trashed once reaching their retention
Question 4.
A paragraph in a physician's order specifies information about a patient's discharge.
Which type of data is described in this scenario?
ANSWER
Unstructured
, Question 5.
A hospital's chief executive officer (CEO) notices a spike in complaints about a certain unit and wants to
know the average number of patients admitted to that unit in order to monitor staff need.
Where should the CEO look for this data?
ANSWER
Daily census report
Question 6.
A physician documents information provided by a patient in the patient's chart.
Which type of data would this be considered?
ANSWER
Primary
Question 7.
In a physician's practice, a doctor is attempting to submit a claim to Medicare, but the system is
experiencing an outage.
Which form would this doctor use to submit a paper claim?
ANSWER
CMS-1500
Question 8.
Nurse chooses the patient's temperature from a drop-down box.
ANSWER
Structured data
Question 9.
A report is needed from a disease registry, but patients' names must be de-identified.
Which category of key principles and practices applies to this scenario?
ANSWER
Responsibility of health data steward
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Why would a credentialing officer access the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)?
ANSWER
To review a practitioner's professional credentials data
Question 2.
A nurse at a long-term care facility is documenting a comprehensive assessment into the patient's
medical record.
What must the record include to meet Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
requirements?
ANSWER
Minimum Data Set (MDS)
Question 3.
Which method of disposal would cause compliance issues for records that have met their required
retention?
ANSWER
Records that are trashed once reaching their retention
Question 4.
A paragraph in a physician's order specifies information about a patient's discharge.
Which type of data is described in this scenario?
ANSWER
Unstructured
, Question 5.
A hospital's chief executive officer (CEO) notices a spike in complaints about a certain unit and wants to
know the average number of patients admitted to that unit in order to monitor staff need.
Where should the CEO look for this data?
ANSWER
Daily census report
Question 6.
A physician documents information provided by a patient in the patient's chart.
Which type of data would this be considered?
ANSWER
Primary
Question 7.
In a physician's practice, a doctor is attempting to submit a claim to Medicare, but the system is
experiencing an outage.
Which form would this doctor use to submit a paper claim?
ANSWER
CMS-1500
Question 8.
Nurse chooses the patient's temperature from a drop-down box.
ANSWER
Structured data
Question 9.
A report is needed from a disease registry, but patients' names must be de-identified.
Which category of key principles and practices applies to this scenario?
ANSWER
Responsibility of health data steward
