AONN CERTIFICATION ACTUAL FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is a Pareto Chart? - ✔✔80% comes from 20% of the problem
✔✔What are SMART Goals? - ✔✔Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Relevant, Time
Based
✔✔What is FLOW - ✔✔Fund, Leadership, Ownership, Wisdom
✔✔When did QI measures become public? - ✔✔2004
✔✔What is Organizational Mgmt? - ✔✔Organize, plan, lead and control resources
✔✔What is Effectiveness? - ✔✔Doing the right thing
✔✔What is Efficiency? - ✔✔Comparison/doing it right (factor of productivity)
✔✔What are Clinical Pathways? - ✔✔Systematic tool to improve care, standardized,
can result in better outcomes
✔✔What is an Oncology Pathway? - ✔✔Most effective, least toxic, least costly
✔✔What are Guidelines? - ✔✔Recommended regimens per diagnosis
✔✔What are Pathways? - ✔✔Based on clinical guidelines to factor in efficacy, toxicity,
cost
✔✔What is Health Utilization Management? - ✔✔Concurrent review, evaluate medical
necessity, appropriateness, efficiency
✔✔What is Health Utilization Review? - ✔✔Previous review
✔✔What is need for Quality Improvement? - ✔✔Structure, Processes, Outcomes
✔✔Who is excluded from paying penalty of not having health insurance (ACA)? -
✔✔Religious, Native Americans, Undocumented Immigrants, Prisoners, Income Below
Certain Level
✔✔What was cost of cancer care in 2010? - ✔✔$125 billion
✔✔What was cost of cancer care in 2004 - ✔✔$72 billion
, ✔✔What is the increase of people developing cancer? - ✔✔45%
✔✔What is a Mission statement? - ✔✔Explains reason for existence (this can change)
✔✔What is a Vision statement? - ✔✔Explains as it would appear in a future state
(inspirational and aspirational)
✔✔What is a Values statement? - ✔✔What organizations believe and how it will behave
(Moral Compass)
✔✔What is goal of Community Outreach and Prevention? - ✔✔Decrease time from
diagnosis to treatment, decrease barriers, facilitate access to quality of care
✔✔According to Healthy People 2020, how many people do not have health insurance?
- ✔✔1 in 5
✔✔According to Healthy People 2020, how many people do not have a PCP? - ✔✔1 in
4
✔✔What are the biggest barriers to quality healthcare? - ✔✔Lack of insurance, low
socio-economic status
✔✔How many people will use all of their savings due to cost of cancer? - ✔✔1 in 5
✔✔True/False: Patients without insurance are less compliant with meds and treatment -
✔✔True
✔✔How many people were uninsured in 2010 - ✔✔50 million
✔✔How many new cancers were diagnosed in 2015 - ✔✔1.6 million
✔✔True/False: More men are diagnosed with cancer than women - ✔✔True
✔✔True/False: More whites are diagnosed with cancer than blacks - ✔✔False
✔✔How many cancer survivors are there? - ✔✔14.5 million
✔✔What does the Quality of Life Model include? - ✔✔Physical, Psychosocial, Social
Wellbeing, Spiritual
✔✔How many cancer patients have depression? - ✔✔13.7% in 2010 (compared with
8.9% without cancer)
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is a Pareto Chart? - ✔✔80% comes from 20% of the problem
✔✔What are SMART Goals? - ✔✔Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Relevant, Time
Based
✔✔What is FLOW - ✔✔Fund, Leadership, Ownership, Wisdom
✔✔When did QI measures become public? - ✔✔2004
✔✔What is Organizational Mgmt? - ✔✔Organize, plan, lead and control resources
✔✔What is Effectiveness? - ✔✔Doing the right thing
✔✔What is Efficiency? - ✔✔Comparison/doing it right (factor of productivity)
✔✔What are Clinical Pathways? - ✔✔Systematic tool to improve care, standardized,
can result in better outcomes
✔✔What is an Oncology Pathway? - ✔✔Most effective, least toxic, least costly
✔✔What are Guidelines? - ✔✔Recommended regimens per diagnosis
✔✔What are Pathways? - ✔✔Based on clinical guidelines to factor in efficacy, toxicity,
cost
✔✔What is Health Utilization Management? - ✔✔Concurrent review, evaluate medical
necessity, appropriateness, efficiency
✔✔What is Health Utilization Review? - ✔✔Previous review
✔✔What is need for Quality Improvement? - ✔✔Structure, Processes, Outcomes
✔✔Who is excluded from paying penalty of not having health insurance (ACA)? -
✔✔Religious, Native Americans, Undocumented Immigrants, Prisoners, Income Below
Certain Level
✔✔What was cost of cancer care in 2010? - ✔✔$125 billion
✔✔What was cost of cancer care in 2004 - ✔✔$72 billion
, ✔✔What is the increase of people developing cancer? - ✔✔45%
✔✔What is a Mission statement? - ✔✔Explains reason for existence (this can change)
✔✔What is a Vision statement? - ✔✔Explains as it would appear in a future state
(inspirational and aspirational)
✔✔What is a Values statement? - ✔✔What organizations believe and how it will behave
(Moral Compass)
✔✔What is goal of Community Outreach and Prevention? - ✔✔Decrease time from
diagnosis to treatment, decrease barriers, facilitate access to quality of care
✔✔According to Healthy People 2020, how many people do not have health insurance?
- ✔✔1 in 5
✔✔According to Healthy People 2020, how many people do not have a PCP? - ✔✔1 in
4
✔✔What are the biggest barriers to quality healthcare? - ✔✔Lack of insurance, low
socio-economic status
✔✔How many people will use all of their savings due to cost of cancer? - ✔✔1 in 5
✔✔True/False: Patients without insurance are less compliant with meds and treatment -
✔✔True
✔✔How many people were uninsured in 2010 - ✔✔50 million
✔✔How many new cancers were diagnosed in 2015 - ✔✔1.6 million
✔✔True/False: More men are diagnosed with cancer than women - ✔✔True
✔✔True/False: More whites are diagnosed with cancer than blacks - ✔✔False
✔✔How many cancer survivors are there? - ✔✔14.5 million
✔✔What does the Quality of Life Model include? - ✔✔Physical, Psychosocial, Social
Wellbeing, Spiritual
✔✔How many cancer patients have depression? - ✔✔13.7% in 2010 (compared with
8.9% without cancer)
