MEDS 580 Midterm Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Paradigm shift in history - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-moving away from the idea that
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outcomes are the result of individual efforts
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Why has the acceptance of team-based healthcare been slow? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔--In training, clinicians are given the idea that they are individually
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responsible for what happens | | |
-Each member of the healthcare system is educated in isolation
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-Interprofessional training is uncommon | | |
What is a work team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A work group with specific
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characteristics that make it a team | | | | |
Characteristics of a work team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Shared team goal
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- Shared responsibility for achieving said goal
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- Defined membership
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- Authority for taking action to achieve the goal
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- Interdependency of team members
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- Absence of larger sub-groups
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- Accountability to a larger organization
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,Benefits of Teams - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Perform tasks faster than individuals
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working alone |
- Enable individuals and organizations to learn
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- Enable organization to retain lessons learned despite turnover of individuals
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(Practices are codified within the operation of the organization)
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- Enable innovation (with time, efficiency and accuracy is built and the team
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becomes better equipped to function)
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Risks of Teams - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Social loafing (i.e. free loading or free
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riding)
- Degrading of decision making by hierarchy or personality
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- Diminished creativity if the team is not managed well
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What is a true team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- To provide clinical care over
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extended periods of time or for repeated, time-limited episodes
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- Technical term and refers to teams that have all of the 7 defining characteristics
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PLUS stability of membership over time
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- Have clear leaders
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- Provide clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time limited
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episodes
What are template teams - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- To provide clinical care for
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time-limited episodes |
- Have the 7 characteristics and a clear leader.
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- They DO NOT have stable membership
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- Typically provide time limited episodes of healthcare like code teams, OB teams
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,- Changing membership defines template teams
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- Every time the team provides clinical care, the roles and procedural routines
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remain stable/the same
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What is a knotwork team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- to provide clinical care for a
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particular patient's specific need | | |
- Teams that come together temporarily in order to care for a patient; these
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teams have no clear leader or stable membership
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- Provide care for a specific need
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- Think of physicians working together temporarily together like in a knot
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What is a network team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- to provide information and
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support to network clinicians in providing care to patients
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- "complexes of links between individuals and organizations, driven largely by the
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interests of the parties and their recognition of the value of working together"
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-Provide information to other physicians to aid patient care
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- A looser grouping than those of knotworks
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- Have no characteristics of work teams (the 7 characteristics)
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- They show cooperation and shared interests
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- No defined leaders, membership, or responsibility
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- Meet together to further individual goals, which will ultimately help patient care
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Background about Smallpox and poxvirus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•Poxvirus
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-Largest type of virus, almost visible with light microscopy
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-Includes variola (smallpox), molluscum contagiosum, cowpox, monkey pox
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, •Many poxviruses are only present in animals
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-These share common antigenic components with small pox which allow for the
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production of a vaccine | | |
•Smallpox virus is only found in humans
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Information about smallpox infection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•Once inhaled, it
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reproduces in the respiratory tract | | | |
-Less efficiently spread through contact with dried virus on clothes and scabs
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•Disseminates through blood (viremia) and lymphatic system | | | | | |
•After this initial infection, a more intense viremia occurs
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-Spread to internal organs and skin, causing the characteristic "pocks" to erupt
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Strategies used for smallpox eradication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Direct
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vaccination of vulnerable populations utilizing national healthcare networks
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-Actively seeking out cases and containing outbreaks
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-Quarantine
-Increased efficiency of delivery (development of bifurcated needle)
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•Cheap, provided more effective vaccines with less material, easy to use
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-Use of jeeps and specialized vehicles to reach off road areas
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Definition of Eradication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-permanently reducing the
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number of worldwide new infections to zero, with interventions no longer
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needed
Correct Answers
Paradigm shift in history - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-moving away from the idea that
| | | | | | | | | | |
outcomes are the result of individual efforts
| | | | | | |
Why has the acceptance of team-based healthcare been slow? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔--In training, clinicians are given the idea that they are individually
| | | | | | | | | | |
responsible for what happens | | |
-Each member of the healthcare system is educated in isolation
| | | | | | | | |
-Interprofessional training is uncommon | | |
What is a work team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A work group with specific
| | | | | | | | | | | |
characteristics that make it a team | | | | |
Characteristics of a work team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Shared team goal
| | | | | | | | | |
- Shared responsibility for achieving said goal
| | | | | |
- Defined membership
| |
- Authority for taking action to achieve the goal
| | | | | | | |
- Interdependency of team members
| | | |
- Absence of larger sub-groups
| | | |
- Accountability to a larger organization
| | | | |
,Benefits of Teams - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Perform tasks faster than individuals
| | | | | | | | | | |
working alone |
- Enable individuals and organizations to learn
| | | | | |
- Enable organization to retain lessons learned despite turnover of individuals
| | | | | | | | | | |
(Practices are codified within the operation of the organization)
| | | | | | | |
- Enable innovation (with time, efficiency and accuracy is built and the team
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
becomes better equipped to function)
| | | |
Risks of Teams - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Social loafing (i.e. free loading or free
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
riding)
- Degrading of decision making by hierarchy or personality
| | | | | | | |
- Diminished creativity if the team is not managed well
| | | | | | | | |
What is a true team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- To provide clinical care over
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
extended periods of time or for repeated, time-limited episodes
| | | | | | | |
- Technical term and refers to teams that have all of the 7 defining characteristics
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
PLUS stability of membership over time
| | | | |
- Have clear leaders
| | |
- Provide clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time limited
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
episodes
What are template teams - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- To provide clinical care for
| | | | | | | | | | | |
time-limited episodes |
- Have the 7 characteristics and a clear leader.
| | | | | | | |
- They DO NOT have stable membership
| | | | | |
- Typically provide time limited episodes of healthcare like code teams, OB teams
| | | | | | | | | | | |
,- Changing membership defines template teams
| | | | |
- Every time the team provides clinical care, the roles and procedural routines
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
remain stable/the same
| |
What is a knotwork team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- to provide clinical care for a
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
particular patient's specific need | | |
- Teams that come together temporarily in order to care for a patient; these
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
teams have no clear leader or stable membership
| | | | | | |
- Provide care for a specific need
| | | | | |
- Think of physicians working together temporarily together like in a knot
| | | | | | | | | | |
What is a network team - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- to provide information and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
support to network clinicians in providing care to patients
| | | | | | | |
- "complexes of links between individuals and organizations, driven largely by the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
interests of the parties and their recognition of the value of working together"
| | | | | | | | | | | |
-Provide information to other physicians to aid patient care
| | | | | | | |
- A looser grouping than those of knotworks
| | | | | | |
- Have no characteristics of work teams (the 7 characteristics)
| | | | | | | | |
- They show cooperation and shared interests
| | | | | |
- No defined leaders, membership, or responsibility
| | | | | |
- Meet together to further individual goals, which will ultimately help patient care
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Background about Smallpox and poxvirus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•Poxvirus
| | | | | | |
-Largest type of virus, almost visible with light microscopy
| | | | | | | |
-Includes variola (smallpox), molluscum contagiosum, cowpox, monkey pox
| | | | | | |
, •Many poxviruses are only present in animals
| | | | | |
-These share common antigenic components with small pox which allow for the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
production of a vaccine | | |
•Smallpox virus is only found in humans
| | | | | |
Information about smallpox infection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•Once inhaled, it
| | | | | | | | |
reproduces in the respiratory tract | | | |
-Less efficiently spread through contact with dried virus on clothes and scabs
| | | | | | | | | | |
•Disseminates through blood (viremia) and lymphatic system | | | | | |
•After this initial infection, a more intense viremia occurs
| | | | | | | |
-Spread to internal organs and skin, causing the characteristic "pocks" to erupt
| | | | | | | | | | |
Strategies used for smallpox eradication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Direct
| | | | | | | |
vaccination of vulnerable populations utilizing national healthcare networks
| | | | | | |
-Actively seeking out cases and containing outbreaks
| | | | | |
-Quarantine
-Increased efficiency of delivery (development of bifurcated needle)
| | | | | | |
•Cheap, provided more effective vaccines with less material, easy to use
| | | | | | | | | |
-Use of jeeps and specialized vehicles to reach off road areas
| | | | | | | | | |
Definition of Eradication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-permanently reducing the
| | | | | | | |
number of worldwide new infections to zero, with interventions no longer
| | | | | | | | | | |
needed
