Pre-Assessment: Evidenced-Based Practice
For Care Coordination (Jbo1) Pjbo Exam
with Questions & Correct Verified Answers
Patients with heart failure in a program to reduce hospital readmissions take
the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire when they first join the
program and again after 90 days. This survey provides information about the
patient's quality of life.
What is an appropriate intervention if the patient scores low on this assessment?
- ✔Arranging social participation opportunities
A patient experiences a clinical error, and a health services coordinator has been
tasked with assessing the underlying issues of the incident so an effective
solution can be identified and implemented to help prevent the error from
happening again.
Which method is appropriate for this purpose? - ✔Root cause analysis
A 68-year-old patient had emergency heart surgery after having a heart attack.
The patient has been in the hospital for seven days, is able to communicate,
has good insight, and sound judgment. The patient is ready to be discharged.
,What is an appropriate post-discharge referral plan? - ✔Home healthcare
A 72-year-old patient just had knee replacement surgery.The patient verbalizes a
desire to be discharged home and get back to a regular daily routine; however,
the patient care team has assessed that the patient's needs are complex and
require a greater level of care.
What is an appropriate facility for the patient? - ✔Inpatient rehabilitation
A case manager is meeting with an older adult patient diagnosed with progressive
dementia who lives alone and is supported by visits from family. A family member
left a message stating that the patient is forgetting to take medications and is
losing weight. The patient's family says that they are not able to care for the
patient to the level needed and is wondering what alternative options could be
considered. The patient is mobile and otherwise cooperative.
Which facility would be appropriate to meet this patient's current needs? -
✔Assisted living
A patient-centered culturally sensitive health care (PC-CSHC) model is being
implemented for ethnically diverse patients in a community-based primary
care clinic.
Which characteristic is associated with this model? - ✔A key focus on
patient empowerment
A 58-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a diagnosis of
hypertension. During an interview, a health services coordinator questions the
, patient about his medication compliance. The patient's spouse states that
the patient has recently lost his job, and he cannot afford his blood pressure
medication.
Which approach should be taken to help this patient? - ✔Consult social services
A healthcare provider is starting a position in a new city with a large immigrant
population. The provider comes from a smaller town that lacks diversity and
wishes to improve the communication skills that will be required in this new
setting.
Which strategy should the provider start with to meet this goal? -
✔Examine own beliefs and biases
A health services coordinator needs to screen an older adult for dementia to
estimate the severity and progression of cognitive impairment.
Which assessment tool should be used? - ✔Mini-Mental State
Examination (MMSE)
An older adult patient is being discharged from the hospital following evaluation
and stabilization of medications for congestive heart failure. The patient is
cognitively competent, lives alone, and ambulates with a walker. The patient has
expressed a desire to be discharged home, and the family wants to comply with
the patient's wishes to live his last years at home.
Which intervention should the case manager implement at this time?
- ✔Identify safety concerns within the patient's home
For Care Coordination (Jbo1) Pjbo Exam
with Questions & Correct Verified Answers
Patients with heart failure in a program to reduce hospital readmissions take
the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire when they first join the
program and again after 90 days. This survey provides information about the
patient's quality of life.
What is an appropriate intervention if the patient scores low on this assessment?
- ✔Arranging social participation opportunities
A patient experiences a clinical error, and a health services coordinator has been
tasked with assessing the underlying issues of the incident so an effective
solution can be identified and implemented to help prevent the error from
happening again.
Which method is appropriate for this purpose? - ✔Root cause analysis
A 68-year-old patient had emergency heart surgery after having a heart attack.
The patient has been in the hospital for seven days, is able to communicate,
has good insight, and sound judgment. The patient is ready to be discharged.
,What is an appropriate post-discharge referral plan? - ✔Home healthcare
A 72-year-old patient just had knee replacement surgery.The patient verbalizes a
desire to be discharged home and get back to a regular daily routine; however,
the patient care team has assessed that the patient's needs are complex and
require a greater level of care.
What is an appropriate facility for the patient? - ✔Inpatient rehabilitation
A case manager is meeting with an older adult patient diagnosed with progressive
dementia who lives alone and is supported by visits from family. A family member
left a message stating that the patient is forgetting to take medications and is
losing weight. The patient's family says that they are not able to care for the
patient to the level needed and is wondering what alternative options could be
considered. The patient is mobile and otherwise cooperative.
Which facility would be appropriate to meet this patient's current needs? -
✔Assisted living
A patient-centered culturally sensitive health care (PC-CSHC) model is being
implemented for ethnically diverse patients in a community-based primary
care clinic.
Which characteristic is associated with this model? - ✔A key focus on
patient empowerment
A 58-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a diagnosis of
hypertension. During an interview, a health services coordinator questions the
, patient about his medication compliance. The patient's spouse states that
the patient has recently lost his job, and he cannot afford his blood pressure
medication.
Which approach should be taken to help this patient? - ✔Consult social services
A healthcare provider is starting a position in a new city with a large immigrant
population. The provider comes from a smaller town that lacks diversity and
wishes to improve the communication skills that will be required in this new
setting.
Which strategy should the provider start with to meet this goal? -
✔Examine own beliefs and biases
A health services coordinator needs to screen an older adult for dementia to
estimate the severity and progression of cognitive impairment.
Which assessment tool should be used? - ✔Mini-Mental State
Examination (MMSE)
An older adult patient is being discharged from the hospital following evaluation
and stabilization of medications for congestive heart failure. The patient is
cognitively competent, lives alone, and ambulates with a walker. The patient has
expressed a desire to be discharged home, and the family wants to comply with
the patient's wishes to live his last years at home.
Which intervention should the case manager implement at this time?
- ✔Identify safety concerns within the patient's home
