COPE HEALTH SCHOLARS MC EXAM (ACTUAL 2025/2026)
LATEST QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A
What does HIPAA stand for?
health insurance portability and accountability act
What does PHI stand for?
protected health information
What are the 5 patient identifiers?
patient's nurse, main nurses' station whiteboard, open-ended
question, patient's wristband, patient's chart
Newborns and infants are at high risk for:
aspiration, suffocation, falls
Toddlers are at high risk for:
choking, injury, infection
Preschool and school age kids are at high risk for:
,injury related to falls, trauma due to abuse, asthma,
fluid/electrolyte imbalance
Adolescents are at high risk for:
substance abuse, depression/suicide, sexually transmitted
diseases
Young adults are at high risk for:
substance abuse, increased stress, quarter-life crisis, midlife
crisis
Middle adults are at high risk for:
hearing and eyesight decline, bone and join pain, late midlife
crisis
Older adults are at high risk for:
decreased skin integrity, aspiration, sleep pattern
disturbances, falls, sensory and perceptual alterations
What does DNR stand for?
, a legal order to not resuscitate the patient if they go into
cardiac arrest
What is an advance directive?
for those who lose ability to communicate, gives staff the
ability to make decisions for them
What is POLST?
Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, an approach
to end-of-life planning based on conversations with patients,
loved ones, and health care providers
What is the Joint Commission? What do you do if surveyed and
you don't know the answer?
a US, not for profit organization that accredits and certifies
health care organizations and performs on site surveys every
3 years, hospitals need accreditation to receive funding from
Medicare and Medicaid; apologize, say you will go find out, ask
some, get the answer, come back and tell them
What is Code Gray?
combative or disruptive person, go to location, which will make
person less combative
LATEST QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A
What does HIPAA stand for?
health insurance portability and accountability act
What does PHI stand for?
protected health information
What are the 5 patient identifiers?
patient's nurse, main nurses' station whiteboard, open-ended
question, patient's wristband, patient's chart
Newborns and infants are at high risk for:
aspiration, suffocation, falls
Toddlers are at high risk for:
choking, injury, infection
Preschool and school age kids are at high risk for:
,injury related to falls, trauma due to abuse, asthma,
fluid/electrolyte imbalance
Adolescents are at high risk for:
substance abuse, depression/suicide, sexually transmitted
diseases
Young adults are at high risk for:
substance abuse, increased stress, quarter-life crisis, midlife
crisis
Middle adults are at high risk for:
hearing and eyesight decline, bone and join pain, late midlife
crisis
Older adults are at high risk for:
decreased skin integrity, aspiration, sleep pattern
disturbances, falls, sensory and perceptual alterations
What does DNR stand for?
, a legal order to not resuscitate the patient if they go into
cardiac arrest
What is an advance directive?
for those who lose ability to communicate, gives staff the
ability to make decisions for them
What is POLST?
Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, an approach
to end-of-life planning based on conversations with patients,
loved ones, and health care providers
What is the Joint Commission? What do you do if surveyed and
you don't know the answer?
a US, not for profit organization that accredits and certifies
health care organizations and performs on site surveys every
3 years, hospitals need accreditation to receive funding from
Medicare and Medicaid; apologize, say you will go find out, ask
some, get the answer, come back and tell them
What is Code Gray?
combative or disruptive person, go to location, which will make
person less combative
