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509 TRAINING STUDY SHEET 2026
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉Quality Health Care. Answer: The degree to which health services
for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired
health outcomes and are consistent with current professional
knowledge
◉Pay for performance programs. Answer: Designed to promote
quality, effective, and safe patient care by physicians and health care
organizations
Quality improvement strategies that reward excellence through
financial incentives to motivate change to achieve measurable
improvements
◉Six Sigma. Answer: A data-driven approach for improving quality
by removing defects and variations in processes
◉Patient-Centered Care. Answer: Recognize the patient or designee
as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate
and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences,
values, and needs
,◉Magnet Recognition Program. Answer: Recognition by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center that an organization provides
quality nursing care
◉Nursing-sensitive outcomes. Answer: Patient outcomes and
nursing workforce characteristics that are directly related to nursing
care such as changes in patients' symptom experiences, functional
status, safety, psychological distress, registered nurse job
satisfaction, total nursing hours per patient day, and costs
◉Nursing Quality Indicators. Answer: Outcomes of nursing care,
identified by the American Nurses Association, that address patient
safety and quality of care
◉Nursing informatics. Answer: Uses information and technology to
communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support
decision making
◉Telemedicine. Answer: Involves the use of video, audio, and
computer systems to provide medical and/or health care services
◉Vulnerable populations. Answer: Collection of individuals who are
more likely to develop health problems as a result of excess risks,
, limits in access to health care services, or being dependent on others
for care
◉CHAPTER 6. Answer: Health and Wellness
◉Healthy People 2020. Answer: A set of disease prevention and
health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the
second decade of the new millennium
◉Health. Answer: A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
◉Health beliefs. Answer: A person's ideas, convictions, and attitudes
about health and illness
◉Positive health behaviors. Answer: Activities related to
maintaining, attaining, or regaining good health and preventing
illness
◉Negative health behaviors. Answer: Inculde practices actually or
potentially harmful to health such as smoking, drug or alcohol
abuse, poor diet and refusal to take necessary medications
509 TRAINING STUDY SHEET 2026
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉Quality Health Care. Answer: The degree to which health services
for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired
health outcomes and are consistent with current professional
knowledge
◉Pay for performance programs. Answer: Designed to promote
quality, effective, and safe patient care by physicians and health care
organizations
Quality improvement strategies that reward excellence through
financial incentives to motivate change to achieve measurable
improvements
◉Six Sigma. Answer: A data-driven approach for improving quality
by removing defects and variations in processes
◉Patient-Centered Care. Answer: Recognize the patient or designee
as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate
and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences,
values, and needs
,◉Magnet Recognition Program. Answer: Recognition by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center that an organization provides
quality nursing care
◉Nursing-sensitive outcomes. Answer: Patient outcomes and
nursing workforce characteristics that are directly related to nursing
care such as changes in patients' symptom experiences, functional
status, safety, psychological distress, registered nurse job
satisfaction, total nursing hours per patient day, and costs
◉Nursing Quality Indicators. Answer: Outcomes of nursing care,
identified by the American Nurses Association, that address patient
safety and quality of care
◉Nursing informatics. Answer: Uses information and technology to
communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support
decision making
◉Telemedicine. Answer: Involves the use of video, audio, and
computer systems to provide medical and/or health care services
◉Vulnerable populations. Answer: Collection of individuals who are
more likely to develop health problems as a result of excess risks,
, limits in access to health care services, or being dependent on others
for care
◉CHAPTER 6. Answer: Health and Wellness
◉Healthy People 2020. Answer: A set of disease prevention and
health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the
second decade of the new millennium
◉Health. Answer: A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
◉Health beliefs. Answer: A person's ideas, convictions, and attitudes
about health and illness
◉Positive health behaviors. Answer: Activities related to
maintaining, attaining, or regaining good health and preventing
illness
◉Negative health behaviors. Answer: Inculde practices actually or
potentially harmful to health such as smoking, drug or alcohol
abuse, poor diet and refusal to take necessary medications
