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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA) ensures a care recipient's right to:
1. select and change their personal physician
2. request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of personal
health information
3. select treatment options based on religious preference
4. designate who can make decisions on their behalf - ANSWER -2.
request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of personal
health information
Larry is a care recipient at a healthcare organization. He has told
several care recipients he has cancer. Another care recipient comes
to the office to learn more about Larry's situation. Regarding Larry's
personal information, staff:
1. must tell Larry not to discuss his condition with anyone but
the physician
2. may not discuss Larry's situation without his permission 3.
must explain to Larry about keeping his medical information
confidential
4. can talk about Larry's situation to other care recipients - ANSWER
2. may not discuss Larry's situation without his permission
Which of the following statements about care recipient needs is most
accurate?
1. Most care recipients need to adjust to placement in a healthcare
organization and to adapt to the routines and patterns of the
healthcare organization
,2. The care recipient's needs are identified through a review of the
care recipient's physical, mental, and emotional history
3. The healthcare organization must seek to collaborate
information provided by the care recipient, since people tend to
overlook their own shortcomings
4. Factors to be considered in identifying care recipient needs
include former occupation, leisure activities, and cultural factors -
ANSWER 2. The care recipient's needs are identified through a review
of the care recipient's physical, mental, and emotional history
Hospice care is usually provided to those care recipients determined
to be terminally ill and who have approximately how long to live?
1. 1 month '
2. 3 months
3. 6 months
4. 12 months - ANSWER -3. 6 months
An individual that a person can designate to make complex healthcare
decisions on their behalf is known as a:
1. personal representative
2. proxy decision maker
3. surrogate decision maker
4. legal representative - ANSWER -4. legal representative
Alternatives to an advance directive include a:
1. living will, Healthcare Power of Attorney, and Do Not Resuscitate
,(DNR) order
2. Durable Power of Attorney, last will and testament, and living trust
3. right of survivorship, Do Not resuscitate (DNR) order, and
appointment of executor
4. living trust, living will, and medical order for life-sustaining
treatment - ANSWER -1. living will, Healthcare Power of Attorney, and
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order
A symptom of dehydration is:
1. difficulty walking
2. diarrhea
3. vomiting
4. poor skin turgor - ANSWER -4. poor skin turgor
One goal of effective dementia care is to:
1. protect care recipients from all safety hazards regardless of
abilities and needs
2. treat all care recipients the same to avoid favoritism and prevent
staff from getting too close to care recipients
3. provide personalized care based on knowledge of care
recipients abilities and needs
4. ensure that all decisions are made by a care recipient's family
members - ANSWER -3. provide personalized care based on
knowledge of care recipients abilities and needs
An administrator decides to have care recipients participate in menu
planning and grocery shopping. This policy would:
, 1. free staff members for other duties
2. violate sanitation regulations
3. reduce dietary costs
4. help care recipients to maintain a sense of involvement and of
being needed - ANSWER -4. help care recipients to maintain a
sense of involvement and of being needed
ROM is an abbreviation for:
1. range of motion
2. rehabilitative outcome measurement
3. rehabilitative outcome management
4. range of measurement - ANSWER -1. range of motion
What word is defined as an acquired, persistent impairment of
intellectual function with compromise in at least three spheres of
mental activity? 1. Alzheimer's
2. Delirium
3. Dementia
4. Encephalopathy - ANSWER -3. Dementia
Person-centered care is a transformation from an institutional model
of care to a:
1. customer full-assist model
2. healthcare model