CCRP Patient Assessment- Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update 2025
What is an Assessment? - Answers An objective evaluation or
appraisal of an individual's health status,
including acute and chronic conditions
-the act of determining importance or value.
How does an assessment gather information? - Answers through collection of data, observation, and
physical examination
**What Type of Assessment?
•Gather information about the patient from available sources such as medical records or reports from
diagnostic studies
• Perform direct measurements on the patient such as 12-lead EKG, blood pressure, or body mass index
- Answers Objective assessment
**What type of assessment?
• Conduct standardized tests, such as a
12-lead EKG or a 6 minute walk test
• Observe patient responses or reactions such as cardiac rhythms on telemetry, oxygen saturation on
pulse oximetry - Answers objective assessment
**In what type of assessment does the patient provide the information, usually as solicited by
practitioner - Answers Subjective assessment
**What type of assessment does the patient?
• Describe their cardiac event
• Rate their level of pain or exertion - Answers Subjective assessment
**What type of assessment does the patient?
• Report on recent behavior, eg, diet,
smoking, exercise
• Evaluating their own status by completing surveys - Answers Subjective assessment
, At the time of program entrance and exit, all patients should undergo or have the following current
screening and assessments: - Answers • Current medical history - medical or surgical profile (or both),
including complications, comorbidities, and other pertinent medical history
• Physical examination - cardiopulmonary
systems assessment and musculoskeletal
assessment, particularly upper and lower
extremities and lower back
• Resting 12-lead electrocardiogram
• Current medications, including dose and
frequency
• Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile
Per Joint Commission :The goal of an__________ is to determine the care, treatment, and services that
will meet the patient's initial and continuing needs. Identifying and delivering the right care, treatment,
and services depends on the following three processes . . . - Answers assessment
1. Collecting information about the patient's health history as well as physical, functional, and
psychosocial status
2. Analyzing the information in order to understand the patient's needs for care, treatment, and services
3. Making care, treatment, and services decisions based on the analysis of information collected
What is a problem/needs list used for? - Answers Completing a list of problems/needs from the
assessment analysis is the first step in creating an ITP.
**What is individualized case management? - Answers is an integrated disease-management process
that provides specific risk factor intervention strategies. The patient is the center of the process and
takes an active role.
**What belongs to case manager? - Answers The _____________ responsibility is to follow patient
through from initial assessment to planning of interventions, to reassessment, and discharge.
-Identify areas that can be impacted by rehab services to help improve patient's health status and also
to identify the way care should be delivered (items that may require treatment changes or modifications
**Initial assessment has several purposes, name four: - Answers •Confirm referral diagnosis - it is not
enough for a health care provider to scribble a diagnosis on a prescription pad or to type it onto an
What is an Assessment? - Answers An objective evaluation or
appraisal of an individual's health status,
including acute and chronic conditions
-the act of determining importance or value.
How does an assessment gather information? - Answers through collection of data, observation, and
physical examination
**What Type of Assessment?
•Gather information about the patient from available sources such as medical records or reports from
diagnostic studies
• Perform direct measurements on the patient such as 12-lead EKG, blood pressure, or body mass index
- Answers Objective assessment
**What type of assessment?
• Conduct standardized tests, such as a
12-lead EKG or a 6 minute walk test
• Observe patient responses or reactions such as cardiac rhythms on telemetry, oxygen saturation on
pulse oximetry - Answers objective assessment
**In what type of assessment does the patient provide the information, usually as solicited by
practitioner - Answers Subjective assessment
**What type of assessment does the patient?
• Describe their cardiac event
• Rate their level of pain or exertion - Answers Subjective assessment
**What type of assessment does the patient?
• Report on recent behavior, eg, diet,
smoking, exercise
• Evaluating their own status by completing surveys - Answers Subjective assessment
, At the time of program entrance and exit, all patients should undergo or have the following current
screening and assessments: - Answers • Current medical history - medical or surgical profile (or both),
including complications, comorbidities, and other pertinent medical history
• Physical examination - cardiopulmonary
systems assessment and musculoskeletal
assessment, particularly upper and lower
extremities and lower back
• Resting 12-lead electrocardiogram
• Current medications, including dose and
frequency
• Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile
Per Joint Commission :The goal of an__________ is to determine the care, treatment, and services that
will meet the patient's initial and continuing needs. Identifying and delivering the right care, treatment,
and services depends on the following three processes . . . - Answers assessment
1. Collecting information about the patient's health history as well as physical, functional, and
psychosocial status
2. Analyzing the information in order to understand the patient's needs for care, treatment, and services
3. Making care, treatment, and services decisions based on the analysis of information collected
What is a problem/needs list used for? - Answers Completing a list of problems/needs from the
assessment analysis is the first step in creating an ITP.
**What is individualized case management? - Answers is an integrated disease-management process
that provides specific risk factor intervention strategies. The patient is the center of the process and
takes an active role.
**What belongs to case manager? - Answers The _____________ responsibility is to follow patient
through from initial assessment to planning of interventions, to reassessment, and discharge.
-Identify areas that can be impacted by rehab services to help improve patient's health status and also
to identify the way care should be delivered (items that may require treatment changes or modifications
**Initial assessment has several purposes, name four: - Answers •Confirm referral diagnosis - it is not
enough for a health care provider to scribble a diagnosis on a prescription pad or to type it onto an
