Deck 18: Healthcare Reform and Global Issues

Question 1

In the United States,unskilled,blue-collar,and white-collar workers have lost jobs and their benefits because the companies did which of the following? Select all that apply.

A) Declared bankruptcy or downsized
B) Contracted for work out of the country
C) Converted their insurance coverages to health
D) exchanges Developing new systems to retrieve and submit payments

Answer 1

Declared bankruptcy or downsized
Contracted for work out of the country

Question 2

Reasons for the current nursing shortage are:

A) Increased pressure from the business community
B) Increased recruitment throughout the United States
C) Unimproved retention and recruitment efforts
D) All of the above

Answer 2

Unimproved retention and recruitment efforts

Question 3

Legislation to mandate staffing ratios to ensure that a sufficient number of nurses are available to care for patient has been introduced by:

A) Congress and several states
B) The American Nurses Association
C) The American Association of Colleges of Nursing
D) American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Answer 3

Congress and several states

Question 4

Which of the following has NOT influenced the increased trend toward hospitals merging or forming systems?

A) Access to capital for expansion
B) Acquisition of new services
C) Rise of alternative care
D) All of the above

Question 5

Uninsured or undersinsured Americans have:

A) Limited access to healthcare
B) Opportunities for medical coverage
C) Unlimited access to patient care
D) None of the above

Question 6

A problem cited by critics of the healthcare public/private model is that

A) Costs are too high
B) It fails to achieve outcomes
C) It focuses on economic gain over patient care
D) All of the above

Question 7

Competence in health policy is within the reach of each nurse and student of nursing.

Question 8

The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)is:

A) Designed by legislation
B) Helps uninsured adults with dependent children
C) A federal health insurance program
D) None of the above

Question 9

Which of the following factors has NOT influenced the rise of surgi- and urgi-centers?

A) Growth of shopping malls and other commercial venues
B) Changes in the reimbursement system
C) Pressure to limit hospital admissions
D) None of the above

Question 10

Which of the following is not part of the increasing influence by business on healthcare?

A) Adoption of the language and ethics of business
B) Emphasis on for-profit ethics and language
C) Importance placed healthcare economies over patient outcomes
D) None of the above

Question 11

In terms of the private and public healthcare sector,the model in the United States is:

A) Combative
B) Collaborative
C) Differentiated
D) None of the above

Question 12

American-style healthcare is expensive because it emphasizes:

A) Nonprofit models over business systems
B) Patient care over business acumen
C) Acute care over preventative models
D) All of the above

Question 13

Hospitals and groups of doctors have opened neighborhood clinics and surgi- or urgi-centers in:

A) Shopping malls
B) Pharmacies
C) Supermarkets
D) All of the above

Question 14

Medicare:

A) Serves those under 65
B) Covers four indigent groups
C) Is a federal health insurance program
D) All of the above

Question 15

Medicaid provides coverage for:

A) Pregnant women
B) Adults in families with dependent children
C) Poor elderly
D) All of the above