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Examination Study Tool for Certified Correctional Health Professional (CCHP)
Standards for Health Services in Jails (2008)
Answer Guide:
J-A-01: Access to Care (Essential)
Questions 1-5
1. Access to care, medical, dental, mental health
2. Responsible Health Authority (RHA)
3. Access to Care means that, in a timely manner, a patient can be seen by a
clinician, be given a professional clinical judgment, and receive care that is
ordered.
4. Estelle vs. Gamble
5. Punishing inmates for seeking care, assessing excessive co-payments,
deterring inmates from seeking care, such as holding sick call at 2am.
J-A-02: Responsible Health Authority (Essential)
Questions 6-16
6. Health care services
7. True
8. False
9. Weekly
10. Physician, health administrator, or agency
11. A single, designated, licensed, responsible physician
12. Designated mental health clinician
13. False
14. The RHA.
15. Responsible physician
16. A Qualified Health Care Professional (QHCP)
J-A-03: Medical Autonomy (Essential)
Questions 17-26
17. QHCPs
18. Clinical Decisions, implementation
19. Administrative decisions, utilization review
20. Custody staf
21. Health staf
22. False
23. Line security, correctional administration
24. True
25. Joint efort, custody staf, health staf
26. CQI
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,J-A-04: Administrative Meetings and Reports (Essential)
Questions 27-36
27. False
28. Facility administrator, RHA
29. Quarterly
30. True
31. Monthly, yes
32. Monthly, to the facility administrator
33. Number of inmates receiving health services by category of care, referrals to
specialists, deaths, infectious disease monitoring, emergency services provided
to patients, and dental procedures performed.
34. Health care services, such as quality improvement findings, infection
control eforts, inmate grievances, and environmental inspection reports.
35. Monitor trends in the delivery of health care.
36. True
J-A-05: Policies and Procedures (Essential)
Questions 37-48
37. Policies, Procedures, Standards for Health Services in Jails
38. Site specific
39. Annually
40. As necessary, the RHA
41. The RHA a responsible physician, the date of the most recent review or revision.
42. True
43. Accessible
44. A policy is a facility’s official position on a particular issue related to an
organization’s operations. A procedure describes in detail, sometimes in
sequence, how a policy is to be carried out.
45. True
46. True
47. Need not
48. False
J-A-06: Continuous Quality Improvement Program (Essential)
Questions 49-64
49. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
50. Problems, corrective action, efectiveness
51. Thresholds, interpreting data, solving problems
52. Basic
53. Yearly
54. Basic and Comprehensive
55. One process study and one outcome study
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, 56. A facility problem is identified, a study is completed, a plan is developed
and implemented, results are monitored and tracked, and improvement is
demonstrated or the problem is restudied
57. Comprehensive
58. Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Committee
59. Quarterly
60. Designs quality improvement monitoring activities, discusses the results,
and implements corrective action
61. Two process studies and two outcome studies
62. A process study examines the efectiveness of the health care delivery process. An
outcome study examines whether expected outcomes of patient care were
achieved.
63. High-risk, high-volume, problem-prone, not every aspect of every service
64. Inclusive
J-A-07: Emergency Response Plan (Essential)
Questions 65-73
65. Emergency response plan
66. Responsibilities of health staf, procedures for triage, predetermination of the site
for care, Phone numbers and procedures for calling health staf and the community
emergency response system, procedures for evacuating patients, alternate
backups for each of the plan’s elements.
67. One
68. Man-down
69. True
70. False
71. Tornado, flood, earthquake.
72. Discussions about health staf’s projected response to emergencies.
73. No.
J-A-08: Communication on Patient’s Health Needs (Essential)
Questions 74-76
74. True
75. False
76. Yes
J-A-09: Privacy of Care (Important)
Questions 77-82
77. Private, encourage the patient’s subsequent use of health services
78. Observed or overheard
79. Security personnel, poses a probable risk to the safety of the health
care professional or others.
80. False
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Examination Study Tool for Certified Correctional Health Professional (CCHP)
Standards for Health Services in Jails (2008)
Answer Guide:
J-A-01: Access to Care (Essential)
Questions 1-5
1. Access to care, medical, dental, mental health
2. Responsible Health Authority (RHA)
3. Access to Care means that, in a timely manner, a patient can be seen by a
clinician, be given a professional clinical judgment, and receive care that is
ordered.
4. Estelle vs. Gamble
5. Punishing inmates for seeking care, assessing excessive co-payments,
deterring inmates from seeking care, such as holding sick call at 2am.
J-A-02: Responsible Health Authority (Essential)
Questions 6-16
6. Health care services
7. True
8. False
9. Weekly
10. Physician, health administrator, or agency
11. A single, designated, licensed, responsible physician
12. Designated mental health clinician
13. False
14. The RHA.
15. Responsible physician
16. A Qualified Health Care Professional (QHCP)
J-A-03: Medical Autonomy (Essential)
Questions 17-26
17. QHCPs
18. Clinical Decisions, implementation
19. Administrative decisions, utilization review
20. Custody staf
21. Health staf
22. False
23. Line security, correctional administration
24. True
25. Joint efort, custody staf, health staf
26. CQI
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,J-A-04: Administrative Meetings and Reports (Essential)
Questions 27-36
27. False
28. Facility administrator, RHA
29. Quarterly
30. True
31. Monthly, yes
32. Monthly, to the facility administrator
33. Number of inmates receiving health services by category of care, referrals to
specialists, deaths, infectious disease monitoring, emergency services provided
to patients, and dental procedures performed.
34. Health care services, such as quality improvement findings, infection
control eforts, inmate grievances, and environmental inspection reports.
35. Monitor trends in the delivery of health care.
36. True
J-A-05: Policies and Procedures (Essential)
Questions 37-48
37. Policies, Procedures, Standards for Health Services in Jails
38. Site specific
39. Annually
40. As necessary, the RHA
41. The RHA a responsible physician, the date of the most recent review or revision.
42. True
43. Accessible
44. A policy is a facility’s official position on a particular issue related to an
organization’s operations. A procedure describes in detail, sometimes in
sequence, how a policy is to be carried out.
45. True
46. True
47. Need not
48. False
J-A-06: Continuous Quality Improvement Program (Essential)
Questions 49-64
49. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
50. Problems, corrective action, efectiveness
51. Thresholds, interpreting data, solving problems
52. Basic
53. Yearly
54. Basic and Comprehensive
55. One process study and one outcome study
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, 56. A facility problem is identified, a study is completed, a plan is developed
and implemented, results are monitored and tracked, and improvement is
demonstrated or the problem is restudied
57. Comprehensive
58. Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Committee
59. Quarterly
60. Designs quality improvement monitoring activities, discusses the results,
and implements corrective action
61. Two process studies and two outcome studies
62. A process study examines the efectiveness of the health care delivery process. An
outcome study examines whether expected outcomes of patient care were
achieved.
63. High-risk, high-volume, problem-prone, not every aspect of every service
64. Inclusive
J-A-07: Emergency Response Plan (Essential)
Questions 65-73
65. Emergency response plan
66. Responsibilities of health staf, procedures for triage, predetermination of the site
for care, Phone numbers and procedures for calling health staf and the community
emergency response system, procedures for evacuating patients, alternate
backups for each of the plan’s elements.
67. One
68. Man-down
69. True
70. False
71. Tornado, flood, earthquake.
72. Discussions about health staf’s projected response to emergencies.
73. No.
J-A-08: Communication on Patient’s Health Needs (Essential)
Questions 74-76
74. True
75. False
76. Yes
J-A-09: Privacy of Care (Important)
Questions 77-82
77. Private, encourage the patient’s subsequent use of health services
78. Observed or overheard
79. Security personnel, poses a probable risk to the safety of the health
care professional or others.
80. False
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