ANCC IQ domain 5 Question bank CORRECT ANSWERS latest updated summer 2023/2024

ANCC IQ domain 5 Question bank CORRECT ANSWERS latest updated summer 2023/2024 1. You see a patient for a routine medication visit. At the end of the session, the patient asks questions and the session ends up 50 minutes in length. You normally charge for the 30-minute appointment, but instead you charge for the 1-hour appointment. The 1- hour appointment includes a full body assessment that you did not perform. This violation is known as: - Over-coding - Super-coding - Down-coding - Up-coding - Up-coding Rationale: Up-coding is a fraudulent practice in which the provider services are billed at higher procedure codes than were actually performed, resulting in a higher payment by Medicare or other third-party payers. 1. During a session, your patient asks to be able to contact you via your Facebook page on the internet. You reply: - I cannot do that because I have a concealed Facebook identity; and I cannot reveal that to my patients - I would be happy to communicate with you. It makes it easier for me to reach you this way. - I would be happy to use Facebook but you will have to use a private message so that you can be anonymous - I cannot do that because Facebook does not protect your Private Health Information - I cannot do that because Facebook does not protect your Private Health Information Rationale: Using Facebook breaks patient-provider confidentiality, in addition to blurring ethical boundaries of the therapeutic relationship. Facebook does not protect private health information. Information on the site is available for anyone to see or hack into even if private messaged. 1. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) insures which of the following? - Small employers who insure 50 or fewer covered lives are exempt from the provisions of this MHPAEA law. - Annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health and substance use disorder benefits are no lower than any such dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered by a group health plan. - Mental health and substance use disorder benefits must be available through both innetwork providers and out-of-network providers by a group health plan. - Group health plans may obtain an exemption if they can demonstrate expected cost increase resulting from implementation of the parity provisions greater than a 5% increase in the cost under existing plan. - Annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health and substance use disorder benefits are no lower than any such dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered by a group health plan. Rationale: The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) provides federal legislation that requires any annual or lifetime limits on medical and surgical benefits be the same for mental health and substance use disorder benefits. Small employers who insure 2 to 50 employees can apply for an “opt-out” waiver, but they are not automatically exempt from the MHPAEA requirements. The group health plan will be required to provide in-network and out-of-network mental health and substance use disorder benefits only if it provides both in-network and out-of-network medical and surgical benefits. The group health plan my obtain an exemption or waiver if the first year of implementation results in 2% increase in group health plan costs over prior year that covers the following year, and if implementation results in 1% increase in group health plan costs in subsequent years. A section on actuarial determination of these increased costs is included in the law. 1. A 68-year-old, retired African-American widower who served for 30 years as an Army officer was recently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He made plans to die at home with hospice care. He was hospitalized for a broken hip and succumbed to complications in the hospital. Despite his request to be addressed as "Mr. Baxter" the hospital staff persisted in calling him by his first name, "John." Which principle of culturally competent care does this violate? - Autonomy - Advocacy - Collaboration - Respect - Respect Rationale: Respect of cultural values and beliefs is violated in this scenario. 1. PMHNPs seeking admitting privileges at a community hospital with inpatient psychiatric services need to influence policymakers at which of the following levels? - State board of nursing - State legislature - County board of health - Local hospital - Local hospital Rationale: Local PMHNPs who want admitting privileges will want to persuade the appropriate hospital decision maker, through facts, figures, and a presentation of projected benefits to the hospital, of the need to change policy and allow PMHNPs to admit patients. 1. To demonstrate her support for social justice, within her role as a PMHNP caring for the person who is homeless with mental illness, the PMHNP: - Volunteers to serve food at the local Home for Girls. - Teaches Sunday School. - Volunteers to walk at the March of Dimes walk each year. - Volunteers her clinical services at the psychiatric clinic, run by a local mission project. - Volunteers her clinical services at the psychiatric clinic, run by a local mission project. Rationale: Social justice is bringing things to those who have the least means of getting them but need them the most. In this case, the homeless mentally ill need the PMHNP’s skills more. 1. You have students from local psychiatric nurse practitioner programs follow you in your clinical practice to show them what you do as a PMHNP. This is called being a: - Preceptor - Mentor - Teacher - Professor - Preceptor Rationale: The preceptor is a 1;1 relationship sustained over a short time where each person brings something to the relationship. It is a contracted, defined role with goals. The preceptor is in a teaching role. Teaching is completed through the observed performance, examples, and