This assessment validates applied knowledge in healthcare practice and standards, including safe practice, professional standards, and evidence-based decision-making. It is intended for candidates entering or advancing in healthcare-related roles.
In preparing your facility for initial accreditation by Joint Commission, you are trying to improve the process of ongoing record review. All health record reviews are presently performed by a team of Him department personnel. The committee meets quarterly and reports to a Quality Management Committee. In reviewing Joint
Commission standards your first recommended change is to
As the privacy officer of your facility, you have been charged with developing policies and procedures for protecting the confidentiality and security of the clinical data collected in your computerized system. One of the first steps you will take is to judge the value of information processed by your system and classify it.
Another step you will need to take is to
A qualitative review of a health record reveals that the history and physical for a patient admitted on June 26 was performed on June 30 and transcribed on July 1.
Which of the following statement regarding the history and physical is ture in this situation? Completion and charting of the H&P indicates.
As your acute care facility moves toward the adoption of an HER, your planning committee is trying to prioritize systems that will contribnute to patient safety. Your physicians have indicated readiness to enter data directly into the HER, and they acknowledge the need for decision support regarding drug dosages and contraindications. You think they are ready for a
You have been asked by a peer review committee to print a list of the medical record numbers of all patients who had CABGs performed in the past year at your acute care hospital. Which secondary data source could be used to quickly gather this information?