Deck 9: Home Health and Related Community-Based Systems

Question 1

Which payer is the largest for home health services?

A) Private insurance
B) Patients and families in the form of self-pay
C) Medicare
D) Medicaid

Answer 1

Medicare

Question 2

What are the two important purposes of the OASIS dataset?

A) Determine payment and measure quality and outcomes
B) Determine payment and standardize data
C) Determine the time of visits and measure quality and outcomes
D) Determine efficiency and measure quality and outcomes

Answer 2

Determine payment and measure quality and outcomes

Question 3

When did formalized home health and community-based systems originate in the United States?

A) 1776
B) 1800s
C) 1965
D) 2001

Answer 3

1800s

Question 4

What technology has been described as the next frontier for home health and related community-based systems?

A) EHR
B) CDS
C) EMR
D) BCMA

Question 5

Which of the following tools will the standardized hospice dataset probably contain? (Select all that apply.)

A) National Data Set for Hospice
B) Family Evaluations of Care
C) Survey of Team Attitudes and Relationships
D) Survey of Missed Nursing Care

Question 6

What are the key tenants of the Triple Aim for Health Care? (Select all that apply.)

A) Better care for individuals
B) Better health for populations
C) Better working conditions for nurses
D) Reduction of per capita costs

Question 7

What are the primary goals for using EHRs in home health and related community-based systems? (Select all that apply.)

A) To provide an effective and efficient method for tracking cost and related billing
B) To capture clinicians' documentation that supported interaction with patients at the point-of-care
C) To support clinical decision making and quality of care by presenting best practices and evidence-based practice options
D) To improve communication
E) To teach patients how to use technology

Question 8

The Omaha System consists of components that capture: (Select all that apply.)

A) evaluation data.
B) cost data.
C) assessment data.
D) service delivery/activity data.

Question 9

What are the core values of nurses who work in home health and community-based systems? (Select all that apply.)

A) Embrace interprofessional collaboration
B) Involve patients and families in care and decision making
C) Schedule home visits and travel to begin and end each work day on time
D) Provide patient-centered care

Question 10

Why is it important for software used by nurses who work for home health and related community-based systems to be based on a standardized terminology? (Select all that apply.)

A) To support evidence-based practice
B) To generate reports needed to monitor care, improve the quality of services, and track costs
C) To improve patient understanding of their medical records
D) To improve communication among care providers at multiple locations
E) To describe and quantify practice for clinicians, managers, administrators, and third-party reviewers