Benefits of electronic health records? Disadvantages? Correct
Answers B: efficiency and legibility
D: losing power, loss of data
Define AMA and what are you responsible for doing? Correct
Answers Leaving against medical advice
Educate patient, have them sign a paper stating they understand
the risks of leaving
Define chain of infection with examples Correct Answers
Agent- HIV
Reservoir- 40yo male
Portal of exit- cut on skin
Mode of transmission- handshake between 40yo male and 40yo
female
Portal of entry- cut on 40yo female's skin
Host- 40yo female
Define ethics Correct Answers Values influencing a personal
decisions of what's right from wrong
Define HAI and who is at higher risk? Correct Answers
Hospital acquired infection
Very old, very sick
Define HIPPA Correct Answers Intended to protect patient
privacy by defining individually identifiable information and
how this information may be used, by whom and what
circumstances.
, Laws that protect patient privacy
Define malnutrition, who's at risk? Correct Answers Lack of
proper nutrition caused by not having enough to eat/not eating
the right things
EVERYONE is at risk!
Define professionalism Correct Answers Mix of knowledge and
skills delivered in respect and with dignity.
Define SBAR Correct Answers S- situation
B- background
A- assessment
R- recommendation
used to facilitate, promote and use appropriate communication
Define SOAPIER, what is it used for? Correct Answers S-
subjective
O- objective
A- assessment
P- plan
I- intervention
E- evaluation
R- revision
Used for an acute situation, helps use clinical reasoning to
assess, diagnose and treat a patient based on provided
information
dysphagia Correct Answers difficulty swallowing or eating
Dysphasia Correct Answers difficulty speaking