CHIMA NCE PRACTICE QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
A health care organizations emergency department (ED) continues to report their
system is 'down' 25% of the time. operations staff have logged computer and
application downtime every day for a month and found the system downtime was less
than 1%. Local IS staff visited the ED periodically throughout the day and found users
successfully using the system on every visit. which of the following should the CIO do to
resolve the issue?
A. Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints firsthand.
B. Officially report the month-long downtime tracking results and spend no more time on
the issue.
C. Put a problem log on the unit asking ED staff to log details of each downtime
experience.
D. Put an IS specialist in the department every day for a week to monitor the system
use - Correct Answers -Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints
firsthand
Which of the following is one of the major approaches to psychology?
A. New age movement
B. Psychiatry
C. Psychoanalysis
D. Structuralism - Correct Answers –Psychoanalysis
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 - Correct Answers -Flow chart
The performance measure "percent of X-ray exams completed within 4 hours of the
doctor's order" is used by the radiology department to measure what dimension of
quality?
A. Appropriateness
B. Continuity of care
C. Patient satisfaction
D. Timeliness - Correct Answers -Timeliness
, Adherence to living will requirements, pain control, and other documentation that
describes end results of care or a measurable change in the patient's health are
examples of?
A. Incidents
B. Outcome measures
C. Sentinel events
D. Threshold events - Correct Answers -Outcome measures
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 - Correct Answers -Obstetrical discharges
The inpatient census at midnight is 67. Two patients were admitted in the morning; 1
died two hours later and the second patient was transferred to another facility that same
afternoon. The IPSD for that day will be?
A. 65
B. 67
C. 68
D. 69 - Correct Answers -69
A health record that uses both manual and electronic processes is described as a/an
_________ health record?
A. Computerized
B. Electronic
C. Hybrid
D. Traditional - Correct Answers -Hybrid
All of the following are components of an information system, EXCEPT?
A. Data warehouse
B. Hardware
C. People
D. Software - Correct Answers -Data warehouse
A complete health record includes?
A. Assessment and identification of health issue only
B. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, and financial estimation
C. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation, and
evaluation.
D. Identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation and evaluation only. -
Correct Answers -Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care,
implementation, and evaluation.
Information retrieval is the field of information science concerned with the _________ in
document collections?
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
A health care organizations emergency department (ED) continues to report their
system is 'down' 25% of the time. operations staff have logged computer and
application downtime every day for a month and found the system downtime was less
than 1%. Local IS staff visited the ED periodically throughout the day and found users
successfully using the system on every visit. which of the following should the CIO do to
resolve the issue?
A. Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints firsthand.
B. Officially report the month-long downtime tracking results and spend no more time on
the issue.
C. Put a problem log on the unit asking ED staff to log details of each downtime
experience.
D. Put an IS specialist in the department every day for a week to monitor the system
use - Correct Answers -Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints
firsthand
Which of the following is one of the major approaches to psychology?
A. New age movement
B. Psychiatry
C. Psychoanalysis
D. Structuralism - Correct Answers –Psychoanalysis
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 - Correct Answers -Flow chart
The performance measure "percent of X-ray exams completed within 4 hours of the
doctor's order" is used by the radiology department to measure what dimension of
quality?
A. Appropriateness
B. Continuity of care
C. Patient satisfaction
D. Timeliness - Correct Answers -Timeliness
, Adherence to living will requirements, pain control, and other documentation that
describes end results of care or a measurable change in the patient's health are
examples of?
A. Incidents
B. Outcome measures
C. Sentinel events
D. Threshold events - Correct Answers -Outcome measures
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 - Correct Answers -Obstetrical discharges
The inpatient census at midnight is 67. Two patients were admitted in the morning; 1
died two hours later and the second patient was transferred to another facility that same
afternoon. The IPSD for that day will be?
A. 65
B. 67
C. 68
D. 69 - Correct Answers -69
A health record that uses both manual and electronic processes is described as a/an
_________ health record?
A. Computerized
B. Electronic
C. Hybrid
D. Traditional - Correct Answers -Hybrid
All of the following are components of an information system, EXCEPT?
A. Data warehouse
B. Hardware
C. People
D. Software - Correct Answers -Data warehouse
A complete health record includes?
A. Assessment and identification of health issue only
B. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, and financial estimation
C. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation, and
evaluation.
D. Identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation and evaluation only. -
Correct Answers -Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care,
implementation, and evaluation.
Information retrieval is the field of information science concerned with the _________ in
document collections?
