HITT 1345 Healthcare delivery systems Chapters 5-8 Questions and Correct Solutions

What certification can any health professional working in corrections receive, and through which organization is the program administered? - The CCHP certification from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care Correctional facilities are generally prohibited by state law from allowing compassionate release or medical furlough when an inmate is known to be terminally ill. - False The application of technology where a video camera, a high-speed line, and monitoring and imaging equipment are installed at a correctional facility and a medical facility, allowing videoconferencing and digital images to be transmitted and received by either site, is called ______________________. - telemedicine Advocates of the juvenile justice system consider counseling and mental health services critical for juvenile offenders. - True Initial health screenings of inmates. - should be completed within 24 hours of admission. Under HIPAA, correctional institutions must provide current inmates with a "notice of privacy practices." - False Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding health care in jails? - Jails may screen and continuously monitor intoxicated persons throughout the detoxification period. In correctional facilities, custody and security are the primary concerns, and health care is provided in a manner that does not compromise those primary concerns. - True Estelle v. Gamble is a U.S. Supreme Court case that ________________________. - established a right to health care for inmates The placement of a prison health services program under a state Department of Corrections rather than under individual prison wardens may be an indication of the perceived importance of health services. - True State governments operate jails and local governments operate prisons. - False Which of the following organizations provides the most comprehensive, measurable health care standards that take into account the size and complexity of the institution and that are specific to correctional facilities? - The National Commission on Correctional Health Care Jails are operated by _____________________. - local governments The American Correctional Association's standards and accreditation processes apply only to health care services. - False The term for a person held in custody awaiting trial, not yet convicted is _____________. - detainee Correctional facilities should pay special attention to the housing, work assignment, and dietary needs of pregnant inmates. - True Only clinicians, such as physicians and nurses, may become Certified Correctional Health Professionals (CCHPs); administrative health care workers, such as HIM professionals, are not eligible - False The large prison population in the United States provides a rich source of research subjects for health care and other researchers. - False A person who has not been sentenced but is incarcerated while awaiting trial is classified as a prisoner. - False The practice of requiring inmates to pay a (small) fee for predetermined, nonemergency medical treatments is called inmate - copayment __________________ is the term for a form of disordered thinking in which a person holds unrealistic beliefs. - Delusion In the context of mental health, "duty to warn" means that __________________. - therapists must warn persons against whom clients make threatening statements, regardless of the fact that such threats are made within a privileged context Which of the following terms can be equally applied either to mental illness and intellectual disability in the same person or to mental illness and chemical dependency in the same person? - Dual diagnosis Financial support for persons with mental illness who have not been able to establish a work history is available through ______________________. - Supplemental Security Income (SSI) CQI is a management concept that is at odds with the consumer empowerment movement because of its focus on provider control in planning services and its lack of feedback mechanisms. - False Involuntary commitment is a legal process by which individuals who are deemed to be a danger to themselves or to others may be admitted to a facility even though they refuse or cannot consent to the treatment. - True A hallucination is a false sensory perception, such as seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling things that are not real. - True The principal sources of funding for CMHCs are client fees, Medicaid, Medicare, and block grant funding for special projects. - True Children's home-based mental health services are individual-centered rather than family- centered. - False