2026 COPE HEALTH SCHOLARS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Are Health Scholars allowed to handle blood? - ✔✔We can only take blood samples
to the lab. We cannot bring bags of blood back to the patient.
✔✔Tier II of Infection Prevention - ✔✔Transmission-Based Precautions:
Used when Standard Precautions may not be enough.
Handwashing, PPE, environmental controls
3 types of precautions for transmission type (contact, droplet, airborne)
✔✔Contact-based transmission precautions - ✔✔Can become infected from contact
with: skin, bed, personal items, etc.
Use: hand hygiene, gloves, gown, isolation protocol.
✔✔Spore/enteric pathogens - ✔✔Contact-based. Do not eat in same room.
Use: gloves, gown, NO hand sanitizer, bleach, orange-top wipes
Ex: C. Difficile
✔✔Droplet-based transmission precautions - ✔✔Can become infected from: coughing,
talking, mucus, etc.
Use: mask, hand hygiene
✔✔Airborne-based transmission precautions - ✔✔Can become infected from: inhalation
of air over long distance
Use: N95 or PAPR mask, hand hygiene, etc.
**Scholars are NEVER allowed to enter Airborne Isolation Rooms.**
✔✔What types of isolation rooms are scholars allowed to enter? - ✔✔Contact isolation
rooms
Enteric contact isolation rooms
Droplet isolation rooms
, ✔✔Tier III of Infection Prevention - ✔✔Patient Protection Precautions:
For immunocompromised patients -- PPE, mask, environmental cleaning, no
flowers/fruit
✔✔HIPAA - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
Ensure privacy of information. Standardize healthcare. Insurance portability.
✔✔HIPAA Rules - ✔✔Privacy Rule -- WHEN can PHI be disclosed?
Security Rule -- safeguards to control WHO can access PHI
Breach Notification Rule -- patient must be notified of breaches
✔✔PHI - ✔✔Protected Health Information:
- Health information
- Payment methods
- Care provided
- Identifying information
✔✔Minimum Necessary Rule - ✔✔Use the minimum amount of information required for
your task.
✔✔HIPAA Security Rule - ✔✔- Integrity: PHI is not destroyed or changed unless
authorized
- Availability: PHI must be available to patient upon request
- Confidentiality: PHI is unavailable to unauthorized persons
✔✔When can PHI be disclosed? - ✔✔For TPO purposes:
Treatment (providing care)
Payment (paying or being paid)
Operations (legal, administrative, business, etc.)
✔✔TPO - ✔✔Treatment, Payment & Operations
✔✔Examples of HIPAA breaches? - ✔✔- Telling friends about hospital patients
- Discussing private health information in public area
- Posting or re-posting identifying information about patient on social media
- Leaving PHI papers unattended
✔✔Social media guidelines to avoid HIPAA breaches - ✔✔- Do not post identifying
information about patients
- Do not friend patients on social media
- Do not take photos or videos with patient
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Are Health Scholars allowed to handle blood? - ✔✔We can only take blood samples
to the lab. We cannot bring bags of blood back to the patient.
✔✔Tier II of Infection Prevention - ✔✔Transmission-Based Precautions:
Used when Standard Precautions may not be enough.
Handwashing, PPE, environmental controls
3 types of precautions for transmission type (contact, droplet, airborne)
✔✔Contact-based transmission precautions - ✔✔Can become infected from contact
with: skin, bed, personal items, etc.
Use: hand hygiene, gloves, gown, isolation protocol.
✔✔Spore/enteric pathogens - ✔✔Contact-based. Do not eat in same room.
Use: gloves, gown, NO hand sanitizer, bleach, orange-top wipes
Ex: C. Difficile
✔✔Droplet-based transmission precautions - ✔✔Can become infected from: coughing,
talking, mucus, etc.
Use: mask, hand hygiene
✔✔Airborne-based transmission precautions - ✔✔Can become infected from: inhalation
of air over long distance
Use: N95 or PAPR mask, hand hygiene, etc.
**Scholars are NEVER allowed to enter Airborne Isolation Rooms.**
✔✔What types of isolation rooms are scholars allowed to enter? - ✔✔Contact isolation
rooms
Enteric contact isolation rooms
Droplet isolation rooms
, ✔✔Tier III of Infection Prevention - ✔✔Patient Protection Precautions:
For immunocompromised patients -- PPE, mask, environmental cleaning, no
flowers/fruit
✔✔HIPAA - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
Ensure privacy of information. Standardize healthcare. Insurance portability.
✔✔HIPAA Rules - ✔✔Privacy Rule -- WHEN can PHI be disclosed?
Security Rule -- safeguards to control WHO can access PHI
Breach Notification Rule -- patient must be notified of breaches
✔✔PHI - ✔✔Protected Health Information:
- Health information
- Payment methods
- Care provided
- Identifying information
✔✔Minimum Necessary Rule - ✔✔Use the minimum amount of information required for
your task.
✔✔HIPAA Security Rule - ✔✔- Integrity: PHI is not destroyed or changed unless
authorized
- Availability: PHI must be available to patient upon request
- Confidentiality: PHI is unavailable to unauthorized persons
✔✔When can PHI be disclosed? - ✔✔For TPO purposes:
Treatment (providing care)
Payment (paying or being paid)
Operations (legal, administrative, business, etc.)
✔✔TPO - ✔✔Treatment, Payment & Operations
✔✔Examples of HIPAA breaches? - ✔✔- Telling friends about hospital patients
- Discussing private health information in public area
- Posting or re-posting identifying information about patient on social media
- Leaving PHI papers unattended
✔✔Social media guidelines to avoid HIPAA breaches - ✔✔- Do not post identifying
information about patients
- Do not friend patients on social media
- Do not take photos or videos with patient
