D220 WGU Study Questions With 100% All CORRECT ANSWERS Updated 2024

A charge nurse uses the department's smartphone to send a text message containing the patient's last name, room number, and most recent vital signs to the attending physician. Which federal act does this violate? - ANSWER-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) A clinic employee left a message at home for a patient that included details of both a medical condition and treatment plan. The patient requested any contact regarding medical conditions be done through the patient's work phone number. What should the clinic's next steps be? - ANSWERTrain employees to provide only the minimum necessary information in messages. A facility has noted a decrease in revenue related to inaccuracies in coding. A nurse recommends computer-assisted coding (CAC) as a solution. What is the financial benefit of CAC? - ANSWER-CAC improves coding accuracy. A facility recently implemented a new EHR. End nurses are now suggesting changes to improve the HR and workflow processes. Which phase in the SDLC does this describe? - ANSWER-Maintenance A healthcare organization has determined which outcomes it wants to improve over the next year and what changes will be implemented to help the organization achieve its goals. The organization builds an interactive reminder tool in the electronic health record (EHR) for staff. Data can be collected from this tool to determine if the changes are implemented. Which type of data collection is this? - ANSWER-Checklist A heparin medication error and a subsequent failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) results in the purchase of smart pumps. How do smart pumps reduce the potential for medication errors? - ANSWER-Dosing limits and alerts are provided. A high number of data-entry fields in the EHR can be overwhelming for staff and make it difficult to find where information should be documented. Which informatics solution could solve this problem? - ANSWER-Cascading documentation A hospital has a surgical department that uses a different EHR from the main EHR (integrated). When a physician inputs an order in the surgical department, how would you ensure that it is in the main EHR? - ANSWER-Chart in one and it will go into the EHR.