NCCHC Definitions ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Access to Care - Correct answers✔✔Means that, in a timely manner, a pt is seen by a qualified
health care professional, is rendered a clinical judgment and receives care that is ordered.
Activities of daily living - Correct answers✔✔generally refers to ambulation, bathing, dressing,
feeding and toileting
Administrative review - Correct answers✔✔an assessment of correctional and emergency
response actions surrounding an inmates death
advance directives - Correct answers✔✔expressions of the patient's wishes as to how future care
should be delivered or declined, including decisions that must be made when the pt is not
capable of expressing those wishes. Useful for terminally ill pts but can be used by any inmate
regardless of health status
adverse clinical event - Correct answers✔✔an injury or death caused by medical management
rather than by the pts disease or condition
eyeglasses, hearing aids, canes, crutches, sleep apnea machines, wheelchairs - Correct
answers✔✔aids to reduce effects of impairments include
clinical encounters - Correct answers✔✔interactions between patients and health staff that
involve an assessment, examination, treatment, and/or an exchange of protected health
information
clinical mortality review - Correct answers✔✔an assessment of the clinical care provided and
the circumstances leading up to death
, clinical performance enhancement - Correct answers✔✔the process of having a health
professional's clinical work reviewed by another professional of at least equal training in the
same general discipline, such as the review of the facility's physicians by the responsible
physician
clinical seclusion - Correct answers✔✔a therapeutic intervention initiated by medical or mental
health staff to use rooms designed to safely limit a patient's mobility.
clinical seclusion - Correct answers✔✔communicable disease isolation is not considered
seclusion for the purpose of this standard
clinical setting - Correct answers✔✔refers to an examination or treatment room appropriately
supplied and equipped to address the patient's health care needs.
clinically ordered restraint - Correct answers✔✔a therapeutic intervention initiated by medical or
mental health staff to use devices designed to safely limit a patient's mobility
Comprehensive Health Summarie - Correct answers✔✔Documents containing relevant health
information including medical, dental and mental health diagnoses, meds, significant chronic
conditions, allergies, and pending health referrals.
Critiques - Correct answers✔✔__________ of drills or actual event document activityes
including response time, names and titles of health staff, and the roles and responses of all
participants. The __________ contains observations of appropriate and inappropriate staff
response to the drill or event.
Custody-ordered restraints - Correct answers✔✔measures or conditions initiated and applied by
custody staff that keep inmates under control.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Access to Care - Correct answers✔✔Means that, in a timely manner, a pt is seen by a qualified
health care professional, is rendered a clinical judgment and receives care that is ordered.
Activities of daily living - Correct answers✔✔generally refers to ambulation, bathing, dressing,
feeding and toileting
Administrative review - Correct answers✔✔an assessment of correctional and emergency
response actions surrounding an inmates death
advance directives - Correct answers✔✔expressions of the patient's wishes as to how future care
should be delivered or declined, including decisions that must be made when the pt is not
capable of expressing those wishes. Useful for terminally ill pts but can be used by any inmate
regardless of health status
adverse clinical event - Correct answers✔✔an injury or death caused by medical management
rather than by the pts disease or condition
eyeglasses, hearing aids, canes, crutches, sleep apnea machines, wheelchairs - Correct
answers✔✔aids to reduce effects of impairments include
clinical encounters - Correct answers✔✔interactions between patients and health staff that
involve an assessment, examination, treatment, and/or an exchange of protected health
information
clinical mortality review - Correct answers✔✔an assessment of the clinical care provided and
the circumstances leading up to death
, clinical performance enhancement - Correct answers✔✔the process of having a health
professional's clinical work reviewed by another professional of at least equal training in the
same general discipline, such as the review of the facility's physicians by the responsible
physician
clinical seclusion - Correct answers✔✔a therapeutic intervention initiated by medical or mental
health staff to use rooms designed to safely limit a patient's mobility.
clinical seclusion - Correct answers✔✔communicable disease isolation is not considered
seclusion for the purpose of this standard
clinical setting - Correct answers✔✔refers to an examination or treatment room appropriately
supplied and equipped to address the patient's health care needs.
clinically ordered restraint - Correct answers✔✔a therapeutic intervention initiated by medical or
mental health staff to use devices designed to safely limit a patient's mobility
Comprehensive Health Summarie - Correct answers✔✔Documents containing relevant health
information including medical, dental and mental health diagnoses, meds, significant chronic
conditions, allergies, and pending health referrals.
Critiques - Correct answers✔✔__________ of drills or actual event document activityes
including response time, names and titles of health staff, and the roles and responses of all
participants. The __________ contains observations of appropriate and inappropriate staff
response to the drill or event.
Custody-ordered restraints - Correct answers✔✔measures or conditions initiated and applied by
custody staff that keep inmates under control.
