CORRECT ANSWERS
Which groups of these tiers of people requires care coordination? ✅✅ANSW-Children with
special healthcare needs, people at the end of life.
At a hospital and making arrangements to transport critical patient to larger hospital. Providing
traditional care to the patient. What would you do? ✅✅ANSW-Give report to the EMS that will
be accompanying the patient by ambulance
84 year old who broke their hip. Alert and oriented answering all the questions app. What questions
are important to implement? ✅✅ANSW-Contact social services, Suggest the patient wear an
emergency notification device, Discuss safety issues with the patient and help the patient plan for
those issues.
Examples of cost effective care ✅✅ANSW-looking to reduce the cost and pass the value of
savings to the patient. Reducing cost reduces waste. Checking orders and IV labels before pulling
them and opening them
Adverse event ✅✅ANSW-Unintended harm. Something harmful happened, but not extreme. (ex:
giving wrong med to patient with no serious outcome) Accidentally administer 4 mg hydro when
only 1 mg prescribed
Near miss event ✅✅ANSW-someone came in for surgery and reveals she did not stop taking
warfarin. Surgery was rescheduled. No harm happened, no mistakes happened. Patient with last
name of Smith and in reviewing MAR, and realized there are 2 Mrs. Smith's. Realizing that this order
was a mistake before it happened.
Sentinel event ✅✅ANSW-unexpected harm happened, and patient experienced extreme harm
and or died. Administering meds and you gave several anti-hypertensive drugs to wrong patient.
Patient goes into shock. You attempt to restore blood flow and are unsuccessful. The client
therefore passes away.
Pt. dx with terminal cancer sharing a room with another patient. Both are from different diverse
backgrounds and express pain levels in different ways. Why is that? ✅✅ANSW-People respond to
the sensation of the pain in culturally diverse ways