COPE Health Scholars - Written Exam
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Teamwork
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Ability to work towards a common vision
- Ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives
Scope of Practice
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - The duties or services that a particular health care
practitioner is authorized to perform
(Limited based on education, clinical experiences, and verification of competency)
What is the Scope of Practice for a Health Scholar? - CORRECT ANSWER - DO:
- Assist the nurse in transporting, repositioning, or toileting tasks
- Assist the unit secretary with paperwork, telephones, or call lights
- Assist hospital staff and physicians as requested
- Assist the patient and family
- Engage in basic patient care tasks and gain invaluable experience in communicating with
patients and interacting with the patient care team
- Gain solid understanding of desired profession and demonstrate commitment and dedicated to
career goals
- ** Help provide better patient care! :) **
DONT:
- Chart vital signs
- Read patient charts
,- Enter restricted isolation rooms
- Transport certain patients alone
- Handle narcotics or medications
(These are only a few examples)
Allied Health
- Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Mid-level health care professionals who support,
complement, or supplement the work done by physicians and nurses
- 'Allied Heath' is a broad term used to identify a cluster of health care professionals of over 100
occupational titles
Nursing
- Define - CORRECT ANSWER - The use of clinical judgement to
- Enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health
- Help patients cope wth health problems and to achieve the best possible quality of life
Physician Extenders
- Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Health care professionals who carry out certain duties
typically associated with a physician
- Usually a Physician's Assistant or Nurse Practitioner
- Not only filling the gap but adding genuine value
- Provide increased access to medical care (important for the *Triple Aim*)
What is the Triple Aim? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cost
Quality
Access
, Cost - Reduce the amount of money required for health care
Quality - Increase the quality of customer service and PERFORMANCE (i.e. Successful surgery,
etc.) that a patient receives
Access - Make health care more accessible (i.e. More affordable and more resources available,
more hospitals/community clinics, etc).
Anatomical Position
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Patient's body is erect
- Head, eyes, toes, and palms are directed forward with the limbs at sides of the body
Medial and Lateral
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - Medial
- Toward the midline of the body
Lateral
- Away from the midline of the body
Anterior/Ventral and Posterior/Dorsal
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - Anterior/Ventral
- Face or front side
Posterior/Dorsal
- Back side
Proximal and Distal
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - Proximal
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Teamwork
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Ability to work towards a common vision
- Ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives
Scope of Practice
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - The duties or services that a particular health care
practitioner is authorized to perform
(Limited based on education, clinical experiences, and verification of competency)
What is the Scope of Practice for a Health Scholar? - CORRECT ANSWER - DO:
- Assist the nurse in transporting, repositioning, or toileting tasks
- Assist the unit secretary with paperwork, telephones, or call lights
- Assist hospital staff and physicians as requested
- Assist the patient and family
- Engage in basic patient care tasks and gain invaluable experience in communicating with
patients and interacting with the patient care team
- Gain solid understanding of desired profession and demonstrate commitment and dedicated to
career goals
- ** Help provide better patient care! :) **
DONT:
- Chart vital signs
- Read patient charts
,- Enter restricted isolation rooms
- Transport certain patients alone
- Handle narcotics or medications
(These are only a few examples)
Allied Health
- Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Mid-level health care professionals who support,
complement, or supplement the work done by physicians and nurses
- 'Allied Heath' is a broad term used to identify a cluster of health care professionals of over 100
occupational titles
Nursing
- Define - CORRECT ANSWER - The use of clinical judgement to
- Enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health
- Help patients cope wth health problems and to achieve the best possible quality of life
Physician Extenders
- Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Health care professionals who carry out certain duties
typically associated with a physician
- Usually a Physician's Assistant or Nurse Practitioner
- Not only filling the gap but adding genuine value
- Provide increased access to medical care (important for the *Triple Aim*)
What is the Triple Aim? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cost
Quality
Access
, Cost - Reduce the amount of money required for health care
Quality - Increase the quality of customer service and PERFORMANCE (i.e. Successful surgery,
etc.) that a patient receives
Access - Make health care more accessible (i.e. More affordable and more resources available,
more hospitals/community clinics, etc).
Anatomical Position
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - - Patient's body is erect
- Head, eyes, toes, and palms are directed forward with the limbs at sides of the body
Medial and Lateral
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - Medial
- Toward the midline of the body
Lateral
- Away from the midline of the body
Anterior/Ventral and Posterior/Dorsal
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - Anterior/Ventral
- Face or front side
Posterior/Dorsal
- Back side
Proximal and Distal
-Define - CORRECT ANSWER - Proximal
