FSCC: Fundamentals of PCC, 2026 – Study and Review
Material
SBAR - correct answer ✔✔ - S (Situation): What is happening right now? What are you calling
about? State your name, patient's name, problem, how severe it is.
- B (Background): State the data pertinent to this moment's problem: admitting diagnosis, when
admitted, and appropriate immediate assessment data such as vitals, pulse ox, mental status,
allergies, and current meds
- A (Assessment): What do you think is happening in regard to the current problem? Which
body system is involved?
- R (Recommendation): What do you want the physician to do to improve the patient's
situation?
Aphasia - correct answer ✔✔ Sensory (receptive) a person cannot understand written or verbal
speech.
Motor (expressive) a person understands written and verbal speech but cannot write or speak
appropriately when attempting to communicate.
Intrapersonal communication - correct answer ✔✔ Also known as "self-talk." It's a powerful
form of communication that occurs within an individual. People talk to themselves by forming
thoughts internally. These thoughts strongly influence perceptions, feelings, behavior, self-
concept, and performance.
Interpersonal communication - correct answer ✔✔ Interaction that occurs between two people
or within a small group. Effective interpersonal communication includes idea and information
sharing, problem solving, expressing feelings, making decisions, accomplishing goals, team
building, and personal growth.
Public communication - correct answer ✔✔ Interaction of one individual with large groups of
people. Speak with groups of patients or consumers about health-related topics. Make special
,adaptations in eye contact, posture, gestures, voice inflection, and use of media materials to
communicate messages effectively.
Teach back - correct answer ✔✔ Demonstration is best
Analogy - correct answer ✔✔ Add to verbal instruction by providing familiar images that make
complete information more real and understandable. Comparing arterial blood pressure to the
flow of water through a hose.
Cognitive Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Includes what the patient knows and understands. All
intellectual behaviors are in the cognitive domain. Ex: acquisition of knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
Affective Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Includes a patient's feelings, attitudes, opinions, and
values. The affective domain is sometimes hard to identify, but it greatly affects the success of
education, either positively or negatively. Affective learning includes active listening and
responding with a consistent value system.
Psychomotor Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Occurs when patients acquire skills that require the
integration of knowledge and physical skills. Examples include learning to walk with a walker
and giving an insulin injection.
Motivation - correct answer ✔✔ An internal impulse such as an emotion or need that prompts,
guides, and sustains human behavior. A patient's situation, needs, previous knowledge,
attitudes, and sociocultural factors influence the motivation to learn.
If cholesterol is high.. - correct answer ✔✔ Limit saturated fats
Tube feeding - correct answer ✔✔ - lower or slow feeding if there is discomfort
, Presence - correct answer ✔✔ the concept of presence is an interpersonal process that is
characterized by sensitivity, holism, intimacy, vulnerability, and adaptation to unique
circumstances.
-It conveying closeness and a sense of caring. You do this by showing a caring attitude,
demonstrating your willingness to listen and talk, or just being physically present.
Dysphagia - correct answer ✔✔ position should be upright, make sure chin is tucked or tilted
down slightly, place the medication in the stronger side of the mouth, thicker liquids are often
easier to tolerate, crush some medications and place them into pureed foods if necessary, do
not have the patient use a straw.
Culturally incompetent care - correct answer ✔✔ is defined as the ability to collect relevant
cultural data about a patient's presenting health problems and use the collected data to ensure
quality and safe care. Critical to success is your ability to conduct a systematic cultural
assessment, communicate effectively, and have the skills to successfully manage world view
differences with others.
Health disparities - correct answer ✔✔ as "a particular type of health difference that is closely
linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage."
-Disparity is literally an inequality or difference -a gap- between the health status of a
disadvantaged group, such as people with low incomes, and an advantaged group, such as
people in the upper class. Members of the disadvantaged group bear a burden of disease,
injury, and violence that is out of proportion to the size of the group. They also have fewer
opportunities to achieve optimal health by preventing illness and injury
Faith - correct answer ✔✔ Set of beliefs and a way of relation to self, others, and a supreme
being.
Religion - correct answer ✔✔ Is associated with the state of doing or a specific system of
practices associated with a particular denomination, sect, or form of worship.
Material
SBAR - correct answer ✔✔ - S (Situation): What is happening right now? What are you calling
about? State your name, patient's name, problem, how severe it is.
- B (Background): State the data pertinent to this moment's problem: admitting diagnosis, when
admitted, and appropriate immediate assessment data such as vitals, pulse ox, mental status,
allergies, and current meds
- A (Assessment): What do you think is happening in regard to the current problem? Which
body system is involved?
- R (Recommendation): What do you want the physician to do to improve the patient's
situation?
Aphasia - correct answer ✔✔ Sensory (receptive) a person cannot understand written or verbal
speech.
Motor (expressive) a person understands written and verbal speech but cannot write or speak
appropriately when attempting to communicate.
Intrapersonal communication - correct answer ✔✔ Also known as "self-talk." It's a powerful
form of communication that occurs within an individual. People talk to themselves by forming
thoughts internally. These thoughts strongly influence perceptions, feelings, behavior, self-
concept, and performance.
Interpersonal communication - correct answer ✔✔ Interaction that occurs between two people
or within a small group. Effective interpersonal communication includes idea and information
sharing, problem solving, expressing feelings, making decisions, accomplishing goals, team
building, and personal growth.
Public communication - correct answer ✔✔ Interaction of one individual with large groups of
people. Speak with groups of patients or consumers about health-related topics. Make special
,adaptations in eye contact, posture, gestures, voice inflection, and use of media materials to
communicate messages effectively.
Teach back - correct answer ✔✔ Demonstration is best
Analogy - correct answer ✔✔ Add to verbal instruction by providing familiar images that make
complete information more real and understandable. Comparing arterial blood pressure to the
flow of water through a hose.
Cognitive Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Includes what the patient knows and understands. All
intellectual behaviors are in the cognitive domain. Ex: acquisition of knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
Affective Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Includes a patient's feelings, attitudes, opinions, and
values. The affective domain is sometimes hard to identify, but it greatly affects the success of
education, either positively or negatively. Affective learning includes active listening and
responding with a consistent value system.
Psychomotor Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Occurs when patients acquire skills that require the
integration of knowledge and physical skills. Examples include learning to walk with a walker
and giving an insulin injection.
Motivation - correct answer ✔✔ An internal impulse such as an emotion or need that prompts,
guides, and sustains human behavior. A patient's situation, needs, previous knowledge,
attitudes, and sociocultural factors influence the motivation to learn.
If cholesterol is high.. - correct answer ✔✔ Limit saturated fats
Tube feeding - correct answer ✔✔ - lower or slow feeding if there is discomfort
, Presence - correct answer ✔✔ the concept of presence is an interpersonal process that is
characterized by sensitivity, holism, intimacy, vulnerability, and adaptation to unique
circumstances.
-It conveying closeness and a sense of caring. You do this by showing a caring attitude,
demonstrating your willingness to listen and talk, or just being physically present.
Dysphagia - correct answer ✔✔ position should be upright, make sure chin is tucked or tilted
down slightly, place the medication in the stronger side of the mouth, thicker liquids are often
easier to tolerate, crush some medications and place them into pureed foods if necessary, do
not have the patient use a straw.
Culturally incompetent care - correct answer ✔✔ is defined as the ability to collect relevant
cultural data about a patient's presenting health problems and use the collected data to ensure
quality and safe care. Critical to success is your ability to conduct a systematic cultural
assessment, communicate effectively, and have the skills to successfully manage world view
differences with others.
Health disparities - correct answer ✔✔ as "a particular type of health difference that is closely
linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage."
-Disparity is literally an inequality or difference -a gap- between the health status of a
disadvantaged group, such as people with low incomes, and an advantaged group, such as
people in the upper class. Members of the disadvantaged group bear a burden of disease,
injury, and violence that is out of proportion to the size of the group. They also have fewer
opportunities to achieve optimal health by preventing illness and injury
Faith - correct answer ✔✔ Set of beliefs and a way of relation to self, others, and a supreme
being.
Religion - correct answer ✔✔ Is associated with the state of doing or a specific system of
practices associated with a particular denomination, sect, or form of worship.
