D220 pre-test part 2

A charge nurse uses the department's smartphone to send a text message containing the patient's last name, room number, and most recent vital signs to the attending physician. Which federal act does this violate? - correct answersHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) A clinic employee left a message at home for a patient that included details of both a medical condition and treatment plan. The patient requested any contact regarding medical conditions be done through the patient's work phone number. What should the clinic's next steps be? - correct answersTrain employees to provide only the minimum necessary information in messages A facility has noted a decrease in revenue related to inaccuracies in coding. A nurse recommends computer-assisted coding (CAC) as a solution. What is the financial benefit of CAC? - correct answersCAC improves coding accuracy. A healthcare organization has determined which outcomes it wants to improve over the next year and what changes will be implemented to help the organization achieve its goals. The organization builds an interactive reminder tool in the electronic health record (EHR) for staff. Data can be collected from this tool to determine if the changes are implemented. Which type of data collection is this? - correct answersChecklist A heparin medication error and a subsequent failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) results in the purchase of smart pumps. How do smart pumps reduce the potential for medication errors? - correct answersDosing limits and alerts are provided. A nurse in a primary care provider's office needs to review results from a patient's cardiology consultation. Using health information exchange (HIE) technology, the nurse requests this information from the cardiologist's office. Which type of exchange is described? - correct answersQuery based A nurse is documenting the electronic record of a patient while in a common area. The nurse is called away to briefly assist nearby. Which action is correct for the nurse to complete prior to assisting in the other area? - correct answersClose the record and log out of the account A nurse manager is informed that bedside nurses have begun using a workaround for scanning a patient's armband prior to medication administration. The nurse manager finds that several patients are missing armbands and that their armbands are connected to their bed frames. What is the nurse manager's first course of action for this