HCQM Final questions and verified answers
(detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TESTS!!
Which state was the first to pass legislation that required nurses to be registered?
Ans: North Carolina
Quiz What organization developed a set of National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG's) that all institutions
participating in accreditation must promote and train their staffs providing care to adhere to?
Ans: Joint Commission
Quiz Organizations that pay close attention to weak signals of trouble to catch problems or errors in the
earliest stage are applying the principles of?
Ans: HRO
Quiz What quality improvement methodology uses statistics for measuring variation in a process with
the intent of producing error-free results?
Ans: Six Sigma
Quiz What act stimulated investment in the information systems infrastructure of professional practices,
clinics, and hospital?
,Ans: HITECH
Quiz The regular and frequent assessment of healthcare processes and their outcomes and related costs
is considered?
Ans: continuous monitoring
Quiz What act established a quality reporting program for skilled nursing care in the US?
Ans: IMPACT
Quiz Who was instrumental in bringing attention to the formal training needs of nurses?
Ans: Dr. Samuel Gross
Quiz Performance improvement data collection results that fall outside the established _____________
often trigger further study or more focused data collection on a performance measure?
Ans: benchmark
Quiz What is a system in which purchasers hold providers of healthcare accountable for both the costs
of healthcare and its quality?
Ans: value-based purchasing
, Quiz Quality and performance monitoring are ________________ processes?
Ans: data-driven
Quiz What is the standard of performance or best practice for a particular process or outcome?
Ans: benchmark
Quiz The Joint Commission requires healthcare organizations to appoint a ____________ group to
oversee organization-wide PI activities?
Ans: Leadership
Quiz Root-cause analysis is the key technique used in which quality improvement methodology?
Ans: Lean
Quiz What tool provides an indication of an organizations performance in relation to a specified process
or outcome?
Ans: Performance measure
Quiz What hospital became the model for the development of hospitals in the 1700-1800's?
Ans: Pennsylvania Hospital
(detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TESTS!!
Which state was the first to pass legislation that required nurses to be registered?
Ans: North Carolina
Quiz What organization developed a set of National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG's) that all institutions
participating in accreditation must promote and train their staffs providing care to adhere to?
Ans: Joint Commission
Quiz Organizations that pay close attention to weak signals of trouble to catch problems or errors in the
earliest stage are applying the principles of?
Ans: HRO
Quiz What quality improvement methodology uses statistics for measuring variation in a process with
the intent of producing error-free results?
Ans: Six Sigma
Quiz What act stimulated investment in the information systems infrastructure of professional practices,
clinics, and hospital?
,Ans: HITECH
Quiz The regular and frequent assessment of healthcare processes and their outcomes and related costs
is considered?
Ans: continuous monitoring
Quiz What act established a quality reporting program for skilled nursing care in the US?
Ans: IMPACT
Quiz Who was instrumental in bringing attention to the formal training needs of nurses?
Ans: Dr. Samuel Gross
Quiz Performance improvement data collection results that fall outside the established _____________
often trigger further study or more focused data collection on a performance measure?
Ans: benchmark
Quiz What is a system in which purchasers hold providers of healthcare accountable for both the costs
of healthcare and its quality?
Ans: value-based purchasing
, Quiz Quality and performance monitoring are ________________ processes?
Ans: data-driven
Quiz What is the standard of performance or best practice for a particular process or outcome?
Ans: benchmark
Quiz The Joint Commission requires healthcare organizations to appoint a ____________ group to
oversee organization-wide PI activities?
Ans: Leadership
Quiz Root-cause analysis is the key technique used in which quality improvement methodology?
Ans: Lean
Quiz What tool provides an indication of an organizations performance in relation to a specified process
or outcome?
Ans: Performance measure
Quiz What hospital became the model for the development of hospitals in the 1700-1800's?
Ans: Pennsylvania Hospital
