WGU D391 Healthcare Ecosystems
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1. A small rural community is facing a public health crisis during a particularly
virulent flu season. A Health and Human Services (HHS) professional is
assigned to work directly with the community to reinforce the importance
of preventative care and to ensure the members of the community have the
resources and knowledge they need to prevent the spread of flu.
Which HHS role is appropriate to serve this need?
a. public health educator
b. public administrator
c. primary care physician
d. social services administration - Correct Answer: public health
educator
2. Which component of the U.S. healthcare ecosystem is classified as a
provider?
a. medicare
b. an urgent care facility
c. food and drug admin. (FDA)
d. An emergency room patient - Correct Answer: an urgent care
facility
,3. A single mother of two young children who relies on public assistance is
having difficulty seeing due to an outdated eyeglass lens prescription.
However, she has no vision coverage and can't afford to pay out of pocket
for an optometrist appointment and new lenses and frames.
Where should this client go to get an eye exam and new glasses?
a) a woman, infants, & children facility (WIC)
b) a free medical clinic (FMC)
c) a patient-centered medical home (PCMH)
d) a federally. quality health center (FQHC) - Correct Answer: a free
medical clinic (FMC)
4. What is a medical service that a nurse practitioner can provide, but a
registered nurse cannot?
a. working with patients without physician being present
b. prescribe medications
c. administer drugs prescribed by a physician
d. working without licensure by the state - Correct Answer:
prescribe medications
5. What is a primary responsibility of long-term care administrators in a
healthcare organization?
a. oversee assisted living facilities
b. coordinate client services
c. assist physicians with patient care
d. administer treatments and medication - Correct Answer: oversee
assisted living facilities
,6. A client had an accident, was cut deeply, and is bleeding heavily. Which type
of provider should treat this patient?
a. a primary care clinice
b. rehabilitation faciltiy
c. an acute care facility
d. specialty hospital - Correct Answer: an acute care facility
7. Which medical field contains the largest percentage of U.S. physicians by
specialty as of 2019?
a. general practice/ family medicine
b. general surgery
c. general internal medicine
d. general pediatrics - Correct Answer: general practice/ family
medicine.
8. What is a goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPPA) of 1996?
a. to create patient safety organizatins
b. to reduce healthcare costs by lowering hospitals' readmission rates
c. to ensure privacy of patients' health information
d. to establish medicare part C - Correct Answer: to ensure privacy
of patients' health information
9. Which legislation created health insurance exchanges that allowed
consumers to compare and buy health insurance plans?
a. patient safety and quality improvement act of 2005
, b. the medicare prescription drug, improvement, and modernization act
of 2003
c. the affordable care act of 2010
d. the balanced budget. act of 1997 - Correct Answer: affordable
care act of 2010
10.Which population is covered by Medicare?
a. those aged 65 or older, or those on social security
b. adults who live at least 200% under the poverty line
c. employer. groups
d. active military - Correct Answer: those aged 65 or older or those
on social security disability (includes younger people with terminal
disabilities (renal disease).
11.In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Congress approved which
legislation?
a. the affordable care act
b. health maintenance organizations
c. dual eligible programs
d. medicare and medicaid programs - Correct Answer: medicare and
medicaid programs
12.The children's health insurance program was created for whom?
a. medicaid
b. medicare
c. children who did not qualify for medicaid
d. social security disability - Correct Answer: children who did not
qualify for medicaid
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT Comprehensive
Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Includes
Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!!
Current Update!!
1. A small rural community is facing a public health crisis during a particularly
virulent flu season. A Health and Human Services (HHS) professional is
assigned to work directly with the community to reinforce the importance
of preventative care and to ensure the members of the community have the
resources and knowledge they need to prevent the spread of flu.
Which HHS role is appropriate to serve this need?
a. public health educator
b. public administrator
c. primary care physician
d. social services administration - Correct Answer: public health
educator
2. Which component of the U.S. healthcare ecosystem is classified as a
provider?
a. medicare
b. an urgent care facility
c. food and drug admin. (FDA)
d. An emergency room patient - Correct Answer: an urgent care
facility
,3. A single mother of two young children who relies on public assistance is
having difficulty seeing due to an outdated eyeglass lens prescription.
However, she has no vision coverage and can't afford to pay out of pocket
for an optometrist appointment and new lenses and frames.
Where should this client go to get an eye exam and new glasses?
a) a woman, infants, & children facility (WIC)
b) a free medical clinic (FMC)
c) a patient-centered medical home (PCMH)
d) a federally. quality health center (FQHC) - Correct Answer: a free
medical clinic (FMC)
4. What is a medical service that a nurse practitioner can provide, but a
registered nurse cannot?
a. working with patients without physician being present
b. prescribe medications
c. administer drugs prescribed by a physician
d. working without licensure by the state - Correct Answer:
prescribe medications
5. What is a primary responsibility of long-term care administrators in a
healthcare organization?
a. oversee assisted living facilities
b. coordinate client services
c. assist physicians with patient care
d. administer treatments and medication - Correct Answer: oversee
assisted living facilities
,6. A client had an accident, was cut deeply, and is bleeding heavily. Which type
of provider should treat this patient?
a. a primary care clinice
b. rehabilitation faciltiy
c. an acute care facility
d. specialty hospital - Correct Answer: an acute care facility
7. Which medical field contains the largest percentage of U.S. physicians by
specialty as of 2019?
a. general practice/ family medicine
b. general surgery
c. general internal medicine
d. general pediatrics - Correct Answer: general practice/ family
medicine.
8. What is a goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPPA) of 1996?
a. to create patient safety organizatins
b. to reduce healthcare costs by lowering hospitals' readmission rates
c. to ensure privacy of patients' health information
d. to establish medicare part C - Correct Answer: to ensure privacy
of patients' health information
9. Which legislation created health insurance exchanges that allowed
consumers to compare and buy health insurance plans?
a. patient safety and quality improvement act of 2005
, b. the medicare prescription drug, improvement, and modernization act
of 2003
c. the affordable care act of 2010
d. the balanced budget. act of 1997 - Correct Answer: affordable
care act of 2010
10.Which population is covered by Medicare?
a. those aged 65 or older, or those on social security
b. adults who live at least 200% under the poverty line
c. employer. groups
d. active military - Correct Answer: those aged 65 or older or those
on social security disability (includes younger people with terminal
disabilities (renal disease).
11.In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Congress approved which
legislation?
a. the affordable care act
b. health maintenance organizations
c. dual eligible programs
d. medicare and medicaid programs - Correct Answer: medicare and
medicaid programs
12.The children's health insurance program was created for whom?
a. medicaid
b. medicare
c. children who did not qualify for medicaid
d. social security disability - Correct Answer: children who did not
qualify for medicaid
