UPDATE 2026
Under free market conditions, the relationship between the quantity of medical
services demanded and the price of medical services is:
A) unknown.
B) equal.
C) direct.
D) inverse. - Answers D
Reimbursement is associated with which of the quad functions?
A) Financing
B) Insurance
C) Delivery
D) Payment - Answers D
In a free market, who would pay for the delivery of health care services?
A) Employers
B) Patients
C) Government
D) Multiple payers - Answers B
When providers deliver unnecessary services with the objective of protecting
themselves against lawsuits, this practice is called:
A) defensive medicine.
B) supplier-induced demand.
C) primary protection.
D) legal risk. - Answers A
Legislation is to laws as regulations are to:
A) bills.
B) laws.
C) rules.
D) practice. - Answers C
How does healthcare regulation protect the public?
A) Nurses are regulated in their practice and therefore cannot do harm.
B) Physicians are regulated in their practice and therefore cannot do harm.
C) Laypersons are great at judging the care they will receive and do not need
regulations.
D) There is always a potential risk of harm in health care, and regulations help
mitigate risk by providing structure to a complex environment. - Answers D
What led to the creation of the first formalized nurse practitioner programs in the
United States?
A) A nursing shortage prediction
B) A physician shortage prediction
C) Legislation put forth by RNs who wanted advanced degrees
D) Nursing and physician shortage predictions - Answers B
When voting, board of nursing members (regardless of what state they are in) take
into account public welfare and safety, legal defensibility of the vote, and:
A) potential national impact of the vote.
B) potential state impact of the vote.
C) potential institutional impact of the vote.
D) potential individual nursing impact of the vote. - Answers B