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Clinical Readiness Exam Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
What are guidelines under a general rule, that nursing students MAY NOT do?
Select all that apply.
A. Administer Chemotherapy
B. Administer Blood or Blood Products
C. Take verbal or telephone orders from another healthcare provider (HCP). The
student should explain that the HCP should document the order in the patient's
chart
D. Transcribe orders to the medication administration record (MAR)
E. Initiate/implement restraints. Nursing students may perform and document
observations and other delegated activities
F. Serve as witnesses for informed consent or advance directives
Ans: All of the above
How do nurses correctly identify a patient?
A. patient's address and last name
B. patient's legal guardians and phone number
C. patient's name and date of birth
D. patient's allergies and first name
Ans: C. Patient's name and date of birth
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What do nurses need to have before disclosure of any healthcare information is
provided?
A. written authorization or patient's verbal consent
B. patient's verbal consent or legal guardian's verbal consent
C. patient's date of birth and full name
D. written date of birth or job authorization
Ans: A. written authorization or patient's verbal consent
What does HIPAA stand for?
A. Health Incorporate Portability and Accountability Act
B. Health Instant Portability and Accountability Act
C. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D. Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
Ans: C. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What are ways of safeguarding Protected Health Information (PHI)?
A. PHI should not be stored on a local or C drive of a computer. Important data
could be lost if the drive failed, or PHI could be accidentally disclosed if the
computer was stolen.
B. Files and charts should be secured when they are left unattended or reasonable
effort should be taken to help prevent wandering eyes from viewing PHI
C. Always protect passwords and never use anyone else's user ID or password
D. All of the above
Ans: D. All of the Above
What is an example of Patient's Bill of Rights?
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A. The accommodation of special needs such as equipment or language interpreters,
accommodation to physical limitations, or to meet cultural or religious needs
B. To have a representative participate in consideration of ethical issues. The
hospital ethics committee can be accessed by calling hospital administration staff
C. To appropriate assessment and management of pain
D. Be free of restraints of any form that are not medically necessary or are used as a
means of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff
E. Receive information about advance directives and have them followed
F. All of the above
Ans: F. All of the above
Healthcare organizations function under an organization called what?
A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
B. Patient's Bill of Rights
C. National Nurse's Association
D. Nursing Scope of Practices
Ans: A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
True or False: Can Nursing Students or other students serve as a witness for
Informed Consent?
Ans: False
Who can be a patient's Advanced Directive?
A. patient's dog
B. patient's 2-year-old child
C. patient's 40-year-old daughter
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Clinical Readiness Exam Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
What are guidelines under a general rule, that nursing students MAY NOT do?
Select all that apply.
A. Administer Chemotherapy
B. Administer Blood or Blood Products
C. Take verbal or telephone orders from another healthcare provider (HCP). The
student should explain that the HCP should document the order in the patient's
chart
D. Transcribe orders to the medication administration record (MAR)
E. Initiate/implement restraints. Nursing students may perform and document
observations and other delegated activities
F. Serve as witnesses for informed consent or advance directives
Ans: All of the above
How do nurses correctly identify a patient?
A. patient's address and last name
B. patient's legal guardians and phone number
C. patient's name and date of birth
D. patient's allergies and first name
Ans: C. Patient's name and date of birth
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What do nurses need to have before disclosure of any healthcare information is
provided?
A. written authorization or patient's verbal consent
B. patient's verbal consent or legal guardian's verbal consent
C. patient's date of birth and full name
D. written date of birth or job authorization
Ans: A. written authorization or patient's verbal consent
What does HIPAA stand for?
A. Health Incorporate Portability and Accountability Act
B. Health Instant Portability and Accountability Act
C. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D. Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
Ans: C. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What are ways of safeguarding Protected Health Information (PHI)?
A. PHI should not be stored on a local or C drive of a computer. Important data
could be lost if the drive failed, or PHI could be accidentally disclosed if the
computer was stolen.
B. Files and charts should be secured when they are left unattended or reasonable
effort should be taken to help prevent wandering eyes from viewing PHI
C. Always protect passwords and never use anyone else's user ID or password
D. All of the above
Ans: D. All of the Above
What is an example of Patient's Bill of Rights?
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A. The accommodation of special needs such as equipment or language interpreters,
accommodation to physical limitations, or to meet cultural or religious needs
B. To have a representative participate in consideration of ethical issues. The
hospital ethics committee can be accessed by calling hospital administration staff
C. To appropriate assessment and management of pain
D. Be free of restraints of any form that are not medically necessary or are used as a
means of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff
E. Receive information about advance directives and have them followed
F. All of the above
Ans: F. All of the above
Healthcare organizations function under an organization called what?
A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
B. Patient's Bill of Rights
C. National Nurse's Association
D. Nursing Scope of Practices
Ans: A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
True or False: Can Nursing Students or other students serve as a witness for
Informed Consent?
Ans: False
Who can be a patient's Advanced Directive?
A. patient's dog
B. patient's 2-year-old child
C. patient's 40-year-old daughter
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