CHIMA NCE PRACTICE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)
A health care organizations emergency department (ED) continues to report their
system is 'down' 25% of the time. operations staff have logged computer and
application downtime every day for a month and found the system downtime was
less than 1%. Local IS staff visited the ED periodically throughout the day and found
users successfully using the system on every visit. which of the following should the
CIO do to resolve the issue?
A. Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints firsthand.
B. Officially report the month-long downtime tracking results and spend no more time
on the issue.
C. Put a problem log on the unit asking ED staff to log details of each downtime
experience.
D. Put an IS specialist in the department every day for a week to monitor the system
use - ANSWER-Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints firsthand
Which of the following is one of the major approaches to psychology?
A. New age movement
B. Psychiatry
C. Psychoanalysis
D. Structuralism - ANSWER-Psychoanalysis
In computing the maternal death rate, the ratio is that of maternal deaths to all:
A. Births
B. Deliveries
C. Live births
D. Obstetrical discharges - ANSWER-Obstetrical discharges
The inpatient census at midnight is 67. Two patients were admitted in the morning; 1
died two hours later and the second patient was transferred to another facility that
same afternoon. The IPSD for that day will be?
A. 65
B. 67
C. 68
D. 69 - ANSWER-69
A health record that uses both manual and electronic processes is described as a/an
_________ health record?
A. Computerized
B. Electronic
C. Hybrid
D. Traditional - ANSWER-Hybrid
Information retrieval is the field of information science concerned with the _________
in document collections?
A. Organization
, B. Organization and retrieval
C. Organization, retrieval and presentation of information
D. Organization, retrieval, presentation of information, and storage - ANSWER-
Organization, retrieval and presentation of information
Discharge days are used in computing the?
A. Average length of stay
B. Gross autopsy rate
C. Inpatient census
D. Percentage of occupancy - ANSWER-Average length of stay
When coding fractures, when there is no indication if the fracture is open or closed,
code the condition as?
A. Closed
B. Open
C. Other specified
D. Unspecified - ANSWER-Closed
All of the following are components of an information system, EXCEPT?
A. Data warehouse
B. Hardware
C. People
D. Software - ANSWER-Data warehouse
A complete health record includes?
A. Assessment and identification of health issue only
B. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, and financial estimation
C. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation, and
evaluation.
D. Identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation and evaluation only. -
ANSWER-Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation,
and evaluation.
A prostate cancer patient is admitted to the hospital for anemia and is complaining of
lethargy and nausea due to chemotherapy. He is given a blood transfusion for the
anemia and discharged home. The MRDX would be?
A. Anemia
B. Lethargy
C. Nausea
D. Prostate cancer - ANSWER-Anemia
You are coding and notice that the health record documents an error in dosage.
What should you code this as?
A. Accidental ingestion
B. Adverse effect
C. Overdose
D. Poisoning - ANSWER-Poisoning
A physician who is an active member in one hospital and applies to admit an
occasional patient to another is applying for what kind of medical staff membership?
AND ANSWERS (GRADED A+)
A health care organizations emergency department (ED) continues to report their
system is 'down' 25% of the time. operations staff have logged computer and
application downtime every day for a month and found the system downtime was
less than 1%. Local IS staff visited the ED periodically throughout the day and found
users successfully using the system on every visit. which of the following should the
CIO do to resolve the issue?
A. Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints firsthand.
B. Officially report the month-long downtime tracking results and spend no more time
on the issue.
C. Put a problem log on the unit asking ED staff to log details of each downtime
experience.
D. Put an IS specialist in the department every day for a week to monitor the system
use - ANSWER-Meet with key users in the ED to hear specific complaints firsthand
Which of the following is one of the major approaches to psychology?
A. New age movement
B. Psychiatry
C. Psychoanalysis
D. Structuralism - ANSWER-Psychoanalysis
In computing the maternal death rate, the ratio is that of maternal deaths to all:
A. Births
B. Deliveries
C. Live births
D. Obstetrical discharges - ANSWER-Obstetrical discharges
The inpatient census at midnight is 67. Two patients were admitted in the morning; 1
died two hours later and the second patient was transferred to another facility that
same afternoon. The IPSD for that day will be?
A. 65
B. 67
C. 68
D. 69 - ANSWER-69
A health record that uses both manual and electronic processes is described as a/an
_________ health record?
A. Computerized
B. Electronic
C. Hybrid
D. Traditional - ANSWER-Hybrid
Information retrieval is the field of information science concerned with the _________
in document collections?
A. Organization
, B. Organization and retrieval
C. Organization, retrieval and presentation of information
D. Organization, retrieval, presentation of information, and storage - ANSWER-
Organization, retrieval and presentation of information
Discharge days are used in computing the?
A. Average length of stay
B. Gross autopsy rate
C. Inpatient census
D. Percentage of occupancy - ANSWER-Average length of stay
When coding fractures, when there is no indication if the fracture is open or closed,
code the condition as?
A. Closed
B. Open
C. Other specified
D. Unspecified - ANSWER-Closed
All of the following are components of an information system, EXCEPT?
A. Data warehouse
B. Hardware
C. People
D. Software - ANSWER-Data warehouse
A complete health record includes?
A. Assessment and identification of health issue only
B. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, and financial estimation
C. Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation, and
evaluation.
D. Identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation and evaluation only. -
ANSWER-Assessment, identification of health issue, plan of care, implementation,
and evaluation.
A prostate cancer patient is admitted to the hospital for anemia and is complaining of
lethargy and nausea due to chemotherapy. He is given a blood transfusion for the
anemia and discharged home. The MRDX would be?
A. Anemia
B. Lethargy
C. Nausea
D. Prostate cancer - ANSWER-Anemia
You are coding and notice that the health record documents an error in dosage.
What should you code this as?
A. Accidental ingestion
B. Adverse effect
C. Overdose
D. Poisoning - ANSWER-Poisoning
A physician who is an active member in one hospital and applies to admit an
occasional patient to another is applying for what kind of medical staff membership?
