CHIMA NCE ACTUAL FINAL PAPER UPDATED STUDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following items are NOT generally shown on a chart of organization?
A. Channels of supervision
B. Departmental relationships
C. Individual tasks
D. Lines of communication - ✔✔Individual tasks
✔✔A hospital's mission statement describes the organizations?
A. Fundamental principles
B. Ideal future
C. Legal and licensing requirements
D. Purpose and the customers it serves - ✔✔Purpose and the customers it serves
✔✔The best example of POC service and documentation is?
A. Doctors using voice recognition systems to dictate radiology reports.
B. Nurses using bedside terminals to record vital signs
C. Patients documenting in their own record
D. Using an automated tracking system to locate a record - ✔✔Nurses using bedside
terminals to record vital signs
✔✔Which of the following services is least likely to be provided by a facility accredited
by commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities?
A. Brain injury management
B. Chronic pain management
C. Palliative care
D. Vocational evaluation - ✔✔Palliative care
✔✔Clinical decision support systems are generally NOT capable of providing?
A. Best practice guideline advice
B. Computer-aided diagnosis and treatment
C. Increased patient interaction
D. Online searching of medical information - ✔✔Increased patient interaction
✔✔A subcommittee of the IT/IM strategic planning committee is scanning health care
literature, learning about competitors, evaluating local health care volume, etc. What
component of the IS strategic planning are they performing?
A. External analysis
B. GAP analysis
C. Internal analysis
D. SWOT analysis - ✔✔External analysis
, ✔✔All of the following are examples of physical safeguards used to protect computer
systems EXCEPT?
A. Access control
B. Destruction process
C. System inventory
D. Terminal lock - ✔✔Access control
✔✔In computing the maternal death rate, the ratio is that of maternal deaths to all?
A. Births
B. Deliveries
C. Live births
D. Obstetrical discharges - ✔✔Obstetrical discharges
✔✔You want to graph the ALOS by gender and service for the month of April. The best
choice is to use a?
A. Bar graph
B. Frequency polygon
C. Histogram
D. Pie chart - ✔✔Bar graph
✔✔A histogram may be used to display discharges by?
A. Age
B. Discharge type
C. Gender
D. Patient service - ✔✔Age
✔✔A department quality improvement team has identified the likely cause of a problem
and decided on a course of action to correct it. At this point, the team decides to use a
QI tool that focuses on one problem and then tests a solution. The team will use?
A. Cause and effect diagram
B. Pareto Chart
C. PDCA method
D. Satisfaction survey - ✔✔PDCA method
✔✔As an HIM coding supervisor, you are asked to compare the current retrospective
coding process with the proposed concurrent coding process. Which visual tool would
be the best to use to identify all the logical steps and sequence of each procedure?
A. Cause and effect diagram
B. Decision matrix
C. Flow chart
D. Run chart - ✔✔Flow chart
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following items are NOT generally shown on a chart of organization?
A. Channels of supervision
B. Departmental relationships
C. Individual tasks
D. Lines of communication - ✔✔Individual tasks
✔✔A hospital's mission statement describes the organizations?
A. Fundamental principles
B. Ideal future
C. Legal and licensing requirements
D. Purpose and the customers it serves - ✔✔Purpose and the customers it serves
✔✔The best example of POC service and documentation is?
A. Doctors using voice recognition systems to dictate radiology reports.
B. Nurses using bedside terminals to record vital signs
C. Patients documenting in their own record
D. Using an automated tracking system to locate a record - ✔✔Nurses using bedside
terminals to record vital signs
✔✔Which of the following services is least likely to be provided by a facility accredited
by commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities?
A. Brain injury management
B. Chronic pain management
C. Palliative care
D. Vocational evaluation - ✔✔Palliative care
✔✔Clinical decision support systems are generally NOT capable of providing?
A. Best practice guideline advice
B. Computer-aided diagnosis and treatment
C. Increased patient interaction
D. Online searching of medical information - ✔✔Increased patient interaction
✔✔A subcommittee of the IT/IM strategic planning committee is scanning health care
literature, learning about competitors, evaluating local health care volume, etc. What
component of the IS strategic planning are they performing?
A. External analysis
B. GAP analysis
C. Internal analysis
D. SWOT analysis - ✔✔External analysis
, ✔✔All of the following are examples of physical safeguards used to protect computer
systems EXCEPT?
A. Access control
B. Destruction process
C. System inventory
D. Terminal lock - ✔✔Access control
✔✔In computing the maternal death rate, the ratio is that of maternal deaths to all?
A. Births
B. Deliveries
C. Live births
D. Obstetrical discharges - ✔✔Obstetrical discharges
✔✔You want to graph the ALOS by gender and service for the month of April. The best
choice is to use a?
A. Bar graph
B. Frequency polygon
C. Histogram
D. Pie chart - ✔✔Bar graph
✔✔A histogram may be used to display discharges by?
A. Age
B. Discharge type
C. Gender
D. Patient service - ✔✔Age
✔✔A department quality improvement team has identified the likely cause of a problem
and decided on a course of action to correct it. At this point, the team decides to use a
QI tool that focuses on one problem and then tests a solution. The team will use?
A. Cause and effect diagram
B. Pareto Chart
C. PDCA method
D. Satisfaction survey - ✔✔PDCA method
✔✔As an HIM coding supervisor, you are asked to compare the current retrospective
coding process with the proposed concurrent coding process. Which visual tool would
be the best to use to identify all the logical steps and sequence of each procedure?
A. Cause and effect diagram
B. Decision matrix
C. Flow chart
D. Run chart - ✔✔Flow chart
