HCB Shipboard/147 Questions With
Complete Solutions/ Graded A+.
When would a patient need in patient care? - -When the disease or injury is severe
enough to require twenty-four hour care and monitoring
-Discharge planning - -to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to
hospital, and to improve the co-ordination of service following discharge from hospital
-Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - -A private,
voluntary, not-for-profit group that provides accreditation to U.S. hospitals and other
health care facilities
-Ambulate - -To move from place to place
-Gait - -Manner of walking
-Shift report - -Exchanging essential patient care info with other nursing staff at change
of shift
-Only non-active duty inpatient records are retired ______ years after the last
inpatient discharge - -two
-What are the three major categories of primary medical records? - -Health, outpatient,
and inpatient records
-How are health record folders selected? - -Based upon the last two digits of the
patient's Social Security Number
-What is an inpatient record? - -A medical file which documents care provided to a
patient assigned to an inpatient bed at a Medical Treatment Facility
-A clinical summary is required for all inpatient hospitalizations lasting more than ___
hours - -48
-What is a NAVMED 6550/8? - -Medical Administration Record (MAR)
A form used to document medications administered during a seven-day period
-What is a NAVMED 6550/12? - -Patient Profile
Provides pertinent patient info such as diagnosis, orders for medications, treatments,
activity, diet, vitals, bath, and intake and output
-What is a SF 508? - -Doctor's Orders
-SF 509 - -Progress notes
, -SF 510 - -Nursing Notes
Used to document inpatient care
-True or False: Info on the SF 510 are written and filed in chronological order - -True
-True or False: All nursing note entries are made using a red pen - -False; All nursing
note entries are made using a BLACK pen
-Who is each nursing note entry signed by? - -The person who wrote it
-What are the two formats for writing nursing notes? - -Black format and charting by
exception
-SF 558 - -Emergency Care and Treatment:
The alternate form from the SF 600 used to document all care given to patients in the
ER
-DD Form 792 - -Twenty-Four Hour Intake and Output Worksheet:
Used to document an accurate account of the patient's fluid intake and output over a 24
hour period
-What 3 elements are required for the transmission of infectious agents within a
healthcare setting? - -A source (reservoir) of infectious agents, a susceptible host with a
portal of entry receptive to the agent, and a mode of transportation for the agent
-Airborne - -Infectious agents that remain infectious over long distances when
suspended in the air
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - -A federal agency of the U.S.
Government that provides facilities and services for the investigation, identification,
prevention, and control of disease
-Cohorting - -Practice of grouping patients infected or colonized with the same
infectious agents together to confine their care to one area and prevent contact with
susceptible patients (cohorting patients)
-Droplet - -A small drop. May transmit infections while airborne to others
-Host - -A person or other living organism that can be infected by an infectious agent
under natural conditions
-Incubation period - -The time interval b/w initial contact with the infectious organism
and the first appearance of symptoms associated with the infection
-Reservoir - -Any person, animal, plant, soil or substance in which an infectious agent
normally lives and multiplies
Complete Solutions/ Graded A+.
When would a patient need in patient care? - -When the disease or injury is severe
enough to require twenty-four hour care and monitoring
-Discharge planning - -to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to
hospital, and to improve the co-ordination of service following discharge from hospital
-Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - -A private,
voluntary, not-for-profit group that provides accreditation to U.S. hospitals and other
health care facilities
-Ambulate - -To move from place to place
-Gait - -Manner of walking
-Shift report - -Exchanging essential patient care info with other nursing staff at change
of shift
-Only non-active duty inpatient records are retired ______ years after the last
inpatient discharge - -two
-What are the three major categories of primary medical records? - -Health, outpatient,
and inpatient records
-How are health record folders selected? - -Based upon the last two digits of the
patient's Social Security Number
-What is an inpatient record? - -A medical file which documents care provided to a
patient assigned to an inpatient bed at a Medical Treatment Facility
-A clinical summary is required for all inpatient hospitalizations lasting more than ___
hours - -48
-What is a NAVMED 6550/8? - -Medical Administration Record (MAR)
A form used to document medications administered during a seven-day period
-What is a NAVMED 6550/12? - -Patient Profile
Provides pertinent patient info such as diagnosis, orders for medications, treatments,
activity, diet, vitals, bath, and intake and output
-What is a SF 508? - -Doctor's Orders
-SF 509 - -Progress notes
, -SF 510 - -Nursing Notes
Used to document inpatient care
-True or False: Info on the SF 510 are written and filed in chronological order - -True
-True or False: All nursing note entries are made using a red pen - -False; All nursing
note entries are made using a BLACK pen
-Who is each nursing note entry signed by? - -The person who wrote it
-What are the two formats for writing nursing notes? - -Black format and charting by
exception
-SF 558 - -Emergency Care and Treatment:
The alternate form from the SF 600 used to document all care given to patients in the
ER
-DD Form 792 - -Twenty-Four Hour Intake and Output Worksheet:
Used to document an accurate account of the patient's fluid intake and output over a 24
hour period
-What 3 elements are required for the transmission of infectious agents within a
healthcare setting? - -A source (reservoir) of infectious agents, a susceptible host with a
portal of entry receptive to the agent, and a mode of transportation for the agent
-Airborne - -Infectious agents that remain infectious over long distances when
suspended in the air
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - -A federal agency of the U.S.
Government that provides facilities and services for the investigation, identification,
prevention, and control of disease
-Cohorting - -Practice of grouping patients infected or colonized with the same
infectious agents together to confine their care to one area and prevent contact with
susceptible patients (cohorting patients)
-Droplet - -A small drop. May transmit infections while airborne to others
-Host - -A person or other living organism that can be infected by an infectious agent
under natural conditions
-Incubation period - -The time interval b/w initial contact with the infectious organism
and the first appearance of symptoms associated with the infection
-Reservoir - -Any person, animal, plant, soil or substance in which an infectious agent
normally lives and multiplies
