PCF Mid Part 1

Which of the following statements best describes the care team?

• The care team is a group of people who specialize in psychiatric care

• The care team is a team of caregivers who are not licensed

• The care team is a group of medical professionals who provide care for each other

• The care team is a group of people with different kinds of educational backgroupnds who give resident care

Which of the following is true of Joint Comission?

• It is a for-profit organization

• It is a state inspection agency

• Membership is mandatory for all skilled nursing facilities

• It's goal is to improve the quality and safety of care given in healthcare facilities

_____means that a person can be held legally responsible for harming someone else.

• liability

• lability

• litigious

• misdemeanor

When a physician issues a DNR order, it means that:

• A resident should not be resuscitated

• The resident's family must be asked if they want the resident to be resuscitated

• A doctor must be called before the resuscitation is performed

• The resident's attorney must be contacted before it is done

Passive neglect is:

• Conspiring with others to commit malpractice

• Separating a resident from family members

• Using verbal language to insult a resident

• Unintentionally failing to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a patient

Which of the following is a violation of a patient's right to privacy?

• A caregiver shares something from the patient's chart

• A cargiver documents in a chart when no one is nearby

• A cargiver uses the privacy curtain

• A caregiver refuses to share medical informaiton

Misappropriation means:

• Handling a resident's belongings roughly

• Harming a resident on purpose

• Unlawful restraint

• Taking something that belongs to a resident and selling it

PHI includes:

• TThe number of vistors a resident has

• A resident's financial information

• Resident's roomate preferences

• A resident's meal preferences

A durable power of attorney for health care is

• A legal document that describes how a patient's possessions are distributed after death

• A legal document sent to probate after death

• A legal document that appoints someone to make medical decisions for a person who is unable to

• A legal document regarding financial decisions

A group of residents that meet on a regular basis is a:

• resident's council

• activity group

• ombudsman committee

• society advisory group