Deck 3: Documentation

Question 1

What is the process used to appraise the practice of an individual nurse known as?

A) Quality assurance
B) Incident reporting
C) OBRA
D) Peer review

Answer 1

Peer review

Question 2

Who is the legal owner of the patient's medical record?

A) Patient
B) Health care provider
C) Institution
D) State

Answer 2

Institution

Question 3

What is the documentation format that uses the acronym SOAPE?

A) Problem-oriented
B) Focused
C) Traditional
D) Crisis

Answer 3

Problem-oriented

Question 4

What is the purpose of QA (quality assurance)?

A) To screen employment applications
B) To evaluate care results against accepted standards
C) To conduct in-services for "quality documentation"
D) To report deviation from standards to the state health department

Question 5

What is the system that classifies patients by age,diagnosis,and surgical procedure,and produces 300 different categories used for predicting the use of hospital resources?

A) Quality assurance
B) Resource assessment
C) Quality improvement
D) Diagnosis-related groups

Question 6

A nurse is using the data,action,response,education (DARE)system of charting,and is completing the data portion.What data are the nurse's focus?

A) Planning
B) Assessment
C) Implementation
D) Patient teaching

Question 7

What should the nurse be sure to do when documenting in a patient's chart?

A) Include speculation.
B) Chart consecutively.
C) Leave blank spaces.
D) Include retaliatory comments.

Question 8

What does documentation of type of care,time of care,and signature of the person prove?

A) The person who signed the documentation did all the work noted.
B) No litigation can be brought against the person who signed.
C) Interventions were implemented to meet the patient's needs.
D) The patient's response to the intervention was positive.

Question 9

The staff from all disciplines is developing integrated care plans for a projected length of stay for patients of a specific case type.This is known as a:

A) nursing order.
B) Kardex.
C) nursing care plan.
D) critical pathway.

Question 10

What is the nurse required to do to adhere to the concept of confidentiality for the patient's medical record?

A) Provide information only to another nurse.
B) Provide information only to an attorney.
C) Share information only with the family.
D) Have a clinical reason for reading the record.

Question 11

The nurse charts only additional treatments done,changes in patient condition,and new concerns.What is this system of documentation?

A) SOAP
B) Block
C) CBE
D) Focus

Question 12

What regulates standards for long-term care documentation?

A) OBRA
B) Title XXII
C) Patient problems
D) The care plan

Question 13

When using electronic (or computerized)documentation,which process should the nurse use to ensure that no one alters the information the nurse has entered?

A) Charting in code
B) Logging off
C) Charting in privacy
D) Signing on with a password

Question 14

Documentation is necessary for the evaluation of patient care.Of which phase of the nursing process is this an integral part?

A) Assessment
B) Planning
C) Implementation
D) Evaluation

Question 15

What form explains the lapse when events are not consistent with facility or national standards of expected care?

A) Subjective data
B) Focus chart
C) Incident report
D) Nursing assessment

Question 16

What will the nurse implement when an error is made when documenting in a patient's chart?

A) Scratch out the error.
B) Apply correction fluid.
C) Erase the error completely.
D) Draw a single line through the error.

Question 17

A new patient is being admitted to a long-term care facility.Who has primary responsibility for each patient's initial admission nursing history,physical assessment,and development of the care plan based on the patient problem identified?

A) Health care provider
B) Registered nurse
C) Unlicensed assistive personnel
D) Licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse

Question 18

Why is documentation especially significant in managed care?

A) The hospital needs to show that employees care for patients.
B) Institutions are reimbursed only for patient care that is documented.
C) Patients might bring lawsuits if care was not given.
D) Documents may become part of a lawsuit.

Question 19

What does the nurse use as a basis for documentation in focus charting?

A) Problem list
B) Nursing orders
C) Patient problems
D) Evaluation

Question 20

What makes home health care documentation unique?

A) Some charting is retained at the hospital.
B) The health care provider's office needs separate charting.
C) Different health care providers need access.
D) The health care provider is the pivotal person in the charting.

Question 21

The best defense against malpractice claims associated with nursing care is accurate _____________.

Question 22

A nurse is receiving a telephone order from a health care provider.The nurse uses a safety measure of preventing errors that is recognized by The Joint Commission as one method of meeting National Patient Safety Goals.What is the second step of this method?

A) Read back
B) Background
C) Recommendation
D) Situation
E) Assessment

Question 23

A health care audit that evaluates services provided and the results achieved compared with accepted standards is known as ____________ ________________.

Question 24

Documentation using the DARE format (Data,Action,Response,Education)includes elements of the __________ charting system.

Question 25

What are categories of inadequate documentation that may lead to a malpractice claim? (Select all that apply. )

A) Incorrectly recording the time of an event
B) Failing to record verbal orders
C) Charting events in advance
D) Documenting an incorrect date
E) Marking out and initialing charting errors

Question 26

When documenting an incident in the nurse's notes,what should the nurse include? (Select all that apply. )

A) Description of injury,including diagrams of injury placement
B) Date,time,and location of incident
C) Name of health care provider and family members notified
D) Chronologic order of events of the incident
E) Confirmation that an incident report was initiated

Question 27

What are some problems associated with electronic (or computerized)charting? (Select all that apply. )

A) Security
B) Expense of training staff
C) Legibility
D) Easy retrieval
E) New terminology

Question 28

Twenty-four-hour charting is designed to establish __________ levels to help determine staffing needs.