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If a patient is asked where they would prefer to die the most common
answer given is at home with hospice. - ANSWERS-True
What is the definition of Operations Management? - ANSWERS-An
area of management concerned with designing and controlling the
process of production and redesigning business operations in the
production of goods and services.
What is at the heart of Operations Management in healthcare? -
ANSWERS-Identification of barriers to care.
What is the best way for NN to determine the current patient flow
process across the continuum? - ANSWERS-Follow several patients
through observation from one phase of care to the next.
Without effective operations management, a patient may get overtreated,
undertreated, and/or not receive quality of care. - ANSWERS-True
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Barriers may occur at various points in the cancer continuum, from
prevention to end of life, and may overlap and repeat. - ANSWERS-
True
Components of NN role include assessment, shared decision-making and
identifying resources. - ANSWERS-True
Documented racial and ethnic inequalities also exist in women's cancer
care across disease trajectories. - ANSWERS-True
in 2015, how much higher was cervical cancer incidence in Hispanic
women compared to white? - ANSWERS-50%
Death rate for cervical cancer in black women was twice that of white,
non-Hispanic women. - ANSWERS-True
Patient navigation significantly shortened the time to diagnostic
resolution compared with women who did not receive patient
navigation. - ANSWERS-True
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What did Dr. Krok-Schoen report about patient navigation? -
ANSWERS-"Navigation eliminates barriers to care."
What is a High Quality Cancer Care Delivery System? - ANSWERS-
Evidence Based Practice, Workforce, Patient/Clinician Interaction
For continuous improvement, nurse navigators need vision and to be
empowered to make changes. - ANSWERS-True
How many colon cancers are caught by identifying Lynch Syndrome? -
ANSWERS-3 of 100
Distress is parallel to whatever phase of disease/treatment. -
ANSWERS-True
What is the major goal of intervention for those patients in distress? -
ANSWERS-Promote adaptation to illness
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