NUR 205 FINAL 2026 COMPREHENSIVE
ASSESSMENT SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS
ANSWERS UPDATED REVIEW SET
◉ institute of medicine's 6 outcomes for the 21st century health care
system
Answer: -safe
-effective
-efficient
-patient centered
-timely
-equitable
◉ issues related to health care
Answer: -access to health care
-quality and safety
-affordability
◉ characteristics of a continuously learning health care system
Answer: -science and informatics
,-patient clinician partnership
-incentives
-continuous learning culture
◉ Institute of Medicine's 4 tierd strategy to prevent medical errors
Answer: -establishing a national focus
-identifying and learning from errors
-raising performance standards and expectations
-implementing safety systems in health care organizations
◉ preventable medical errors are...
Answer: the number 3 killer in the U.S., third to only heart disease
and cancer- claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year
◉ strategies to promote quality of care
Answer: -pay for performance (not running every single test, only
necessary ones)
-penalties for excess readmissions (medicare will not reimburse
hospitals if they send patients home unprepared)
◉ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Answer: -expand coverage, control health care costs and improve
health care delivery system
,-provide medicaid or subsidized coverage to qualifying people
-provide a new way to get health insurance: the health insurance
marketplace
--> designed to help people more easily find health insurance that
fits their budget
◉ Health Care Delivery Systems and Care Coordination
Answer: -physicians and hospitals
-multispecialty group practices
-community health centers
-prepaid group practice: health maintenance organizations (does not
offer a lot of choice), preferred provider organizations (more
choice); prepaid to provide care for the patient
-accountable care organizations: designation not insurance
-medical homes to medical neighborhoods
◉ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Answer: The AHRQ mission is to produce evidence to make health
care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable,
and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is
understood and used
◉ AHRQ Definition of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
, Answer: -comprehensive care
-patient centered/coordinated care
-accessible services
-quality and safety
-not a facility, a designation that a practice can get
◉ _____% of physicians are primary health care providers
Answer: less than 33%
◉ Levels of healthcare
Answer: -primary health care: common health problems
-secondary: ER, inpatient
-tertiary: rare diseases, big medical centers
◉ primary health care
Answer: Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound
and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally
accessible to individuals and families in the community through
their full participation and at a cost that the community and country
can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the
spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.
◉ secondary health care
ASSESSMENT SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS
ANSWERS UPDATED REVIEW SET
◉ institute of medicine's 6 outcomes for the 21st century health care
system
Answer: -safe
-effective
-efficient
-patient centered
-timely
-equitable
◉ issues related to health care
Answer: -access to health care
-quality and safety
-affordability
◉ characteristics of a continuously learning health care system
Answer: -science and informatics
,-patient clinician partnership
-incentives
-continuous learning culture
◉ Institute of Medicine's 4 tierd strategy to prevent medical errors
Answer: -establishing a national focus
-identifying and learning from errors
-raising performance standards and expectations
-implementing safety systems in health care organizations
◉ preventable medical errors are...
Answer: the number 3 killer in the U.S., third to only heart disease
and cancer- claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year
◉ strategies to promote quality of care
Answer: -pay for performance (not running every single test, only
necessary ones)
-penalties for excess readmissions (medicare will not reimburse
hospitals if they send patients home unprepared)
◉ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Answer: -expand coverage, control health care costs and improve
health care delivery system
,-provide medicaid or subsidized coverage to qualifying people
-provide a new way to get health insurance: the health insurance
marketplace
--> designed to help people more easily find health insurance that
fits their budget
◉ Health Care Delivery Systems and Care Coordination
Answer: -physicians and hospitals
-multispecialty group practices
-community health centers
-prepaid group practice: health maintenance organizations (does not
offer a lot of choice), preferred provider organizations (more
choice); prepaid to provide care for the patient
-accountable care organizations: designation not insurance
-medical homes to medical neighborhoods
◉ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Answer: The AHRQ mission is to produce evidence to make health
care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable,
and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is
understood and used
◉ AHRQ Definition of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
, Answer: -comprehensive care
-patient centered/coordinated care
-accessible services
-quality and safety
-not a facility, a designation that a practice can get
◉ _____% of physicians are primary health care providers
Answer: less than 33%
◉ Levels of healthcare
Answer: -primary health care: common health problems
-secondary: ER, inpatient
-tertiary: rare diseases, big medical centers
◉ primary health care
Answer: Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound
and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally
accessible to individuals and families in the community through
their full participation and at a cost that the community and country
can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the
spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.
◉ secondary health care
