MA Quiz #8

You are assisting an elderly patient to get out of his wheelchair. He slips and falls on the floor as he is stepping out of his chair. After you call the doctor for immediate medical assistance, what is the next thing you should do?

• Fill out an incident report.

• Send an alert to the appropriate agency.

• Create a HIPAA report.

• Fill out an OSHA report.

If a contracted agency brings in cleaning products and leaves them on the premises,

• the practice is not responsible for maintaining MSDS for those products.

• the practice is responsible for maintaining MSDS for those products but not kept in the HAZCOM book

• MSDS must be kept in the HAZCOM book and made available at all times.

• the contracted agency must be contacted immediately to remove the cleaning products.

What is a housekeeping procedure from OSHA?

• Wear personal protective equipment in areas five feet outside of the laboratory area.

• Perform hand hygiene before but not after using gloves.

• Immediately remove infectious material from a damaged bag.

• Immediately clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces after exposure to infectious materials.

A principle of quality medical care is to provide adequate documentation in the patient's medical record

• without unnecessary delay, termination, interruption, or prolongation.

• without regard to his or her preference to treatment.

• with sensitivity to the stress caused by the illness.

• to facilitate peer evaluation and continuity of care.

As you work to organize your medical office, what is one thing you should do to ensure that the staff is prepared for incidents that might put patients and others in danger? The best strategy is to (

• create a disaster plan yourself and send it via e-mail to other staff in your office.

• have training sessions for patients when they come in for their office visits.

• hand out emergency pamphlets to all patients and guests of the office.

• meet to discuss potential incidents that could happen, create a written disaster plan, and practice what to do in an emergency situation.

Which of the following has prepared housekeeping procedures?

• Department of Health and Human Safety

• the CDC

• OSHA

• the state

What is the name of the group that issues universal precautions

• Department of Health and Human Safety

• the CDC

• OSHA

• the state

Bodily fluids

• should not be dealt with.

• should be treated as infectious.

• should be handled by physicians only

• should be the health department’s responsibility to clean up.

Describe the primary components of the process of quality assurance.

• Quality assurance is a format to assess patient care safety and standards.

• Quality assurance is a team of patients who give feedback on their care.

• Quality assurance is a team of staff from the finance department, who enforce co-pays are paid

• Quality assurance is a practice that staff need to follow to assure they get paid on time.

Standards established for facilities with Medicare patients are known as

• a quality assurance program.

• HEDIS

• CLIA.

• all of the above