Study Guide- Patient Care Test #1/#2

1. What does HIPAA stand for and when was it established?

2. What is the purpose of HIPPA?
3. What does the privacy rule provide?
4. What types of entities are covered under HIPPA?
5. What does protected patient information include?
6. What is the reason of the privacy rule purpose?
7. What is required to implement patient privacy rules?
8. What are exceptions to the rules of patient privacy?
9. Who enforces the violations if any are made?
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What are the rules with research and HIPPA?
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How do you as a technologist ensure patient privacy?
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What is HITECH and when was it established?
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What is HITECH goals?
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What are the Medicare/ Medicade incentives to follow
HITECH?
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What is the impact on healthcare?
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What does ethics mean?
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Define law and moral rules?
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What does Res Ipsa Loquitur mean?
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What does respondent superior mean?
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What does negligence mean?
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What are elements that prove medical malpractice?
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What are the different Ethical Theories?
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What are Torts?
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What are the 5 types?
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What is an Electronic health record? And what are the joint
commission standards?
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What is a Radiology health record? And what must it have
on it?
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What are the 2 types of consent?
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What are advanced directives regarding patient care?
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What does Durable power of attorney mean?
Infection Control
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What
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is Pathogenicity?
is Virulence?
is Infection?
is Colonization?
is Flora?
are the types of pathogens?

7. Do bacteria need a host? What are examples of bacterial diseases?

8. What is an endospore?
9. What is a Protozon? What are some examples?
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What is Fungi? What are the 2 types? What are the methods of
reproduction?
11. What are viruses? Can they survive without a host? What are
some examples?
12. What is the Cycle of infection?
13. What are normal defense mechanisms?
14. What are the stages of inflammatory response?
15. What are Specific immune defenses?
16. What is the difference between acquired and passive immunity?
17. What are the stages of infectious process
18. What are nosocomial infections? What is a new concern?
19. What are the risk factors for infection?
20. What is the most frequent infection?
21. What are the roles of antibiotics?
22. What is medical and surgical asepsis?
23. What is sterilization?
24. What are the methods of sterilization?
25. What is the difference between a droplet and an airborne?
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What is HIV? How is it spread?

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What is the HIV and AIDS connection?

How can HIV be transmitted?
What are the 4 stages?
What are the standard precautions?
What is HBV? What are the symptoms?
What are the long term affects?
How is it transmitted?
Who is at risk?
How do you prevent HBV?
What is the treatment?
How do you protect yourself?
What are the signs and symptoms of HEP A?
How is it transmitted?
What are the long term effects?

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Who is at risk?

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How do you prevent HAV?

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What kind of trend does it have?

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What are the signs and symptoms of hep c?

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How is it transmitted?

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What are the long term effects?

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What is done for all blood donations?

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How do you prevent HEP C?

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What is the treatment for hep c?

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What kind of trend does hep c follow?

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What is MRSA? Where is it found?

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How did MRSA evolve?

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What is Antibiotic Resistance?

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Where can SA survive?

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How can SA infect patients?

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What is the treatment for SA?

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What is VRSA?

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How do you prevent the spread of MRSA?

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What does VRE stand for?

60. Where are enterococci found? What is the most common

infection?
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What is the history of VRE?

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How do you prevent VRE?

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What are precautions to take?

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What is TB?

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What are the symptoms?

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How is TB transmitted?

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What is a Latent Infection?

68. Can someone be infected if theyre exposed to LTBI? What

happens when someone is exposed to active TB?
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Who is most likely to get TB?

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What kind of testing is done to find out if the patient has TB?

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What does a positive test state?

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What is the vaccine for TB?

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What is the difference between latent TB and active TB?

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How do you evaluate a patients susceptibility to contracting TB?

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What test is used for TB?

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How does the test work?

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What are advantages to the QFT?

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What are the disadvantages?

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When do you use QFT? When do you not use the QFT test?

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What must the blood be drawn with? What does this do?

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What do low risk patients need to exhibit?

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What is the treatment of LTBI?

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Who are the candidates?

84. What are patients that should be considered for treatment have
to have?
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How long does treatment last?

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How is the treatment monitored?

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What is BCG?

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Where is BCG used?

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Who is recommended?

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When should the BCG not be used?

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What may BCG cause?

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What must the patient have to determine if they have TBD?

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What does the effective program require?

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What is the Hierarchy of control measures?

95. When should a patient with suspected or confirmed TB be

considered?
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When are patients no longer considered infectious?

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When should respirators be used?

98. How must Respirators meet following standard performance

criteria?
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How do you prevent the spread of TB?

100. What does OSHA do?

101. What must the respiratory protect have?
102. What does Cdiff mean?
103. What is it?
104. How is it transmitted?
105. What are risk factors?

106. What are symptoms of CDIFF?

107. What are the severe symptoms?
108. What does the infection do?
109. How do you diagnosis CDIFF?
110. What are some treatments for CDIFF?
111. How to protect yourself?
112. What is rubella? What is it caused by?
113. Who is rubella a serious threat to?
114. Where does replication occur?
115. What are the Clinical Features?
116. What are some complications with rubella?
117. What does CRS stand for?
118. How is it acquired?
119. What does the severity of the effects depend on?
120. What are some complications that go along with CRS?
121. What are the vaccines for rubella? When is the first vaccination?
What do you do for a post or pre pregnant patient?
Communication
122. What are examples of blocks to good communication?
123. What are the 3 Modes of communication?
124. What is the goal of a Patient interview? What are the different
structures of
questions?
125. What is the difference between a sign and a symptom?
126. What is the goal of Patient education? What are the 4 types of
learning?
127. What are the different challenges in communication? How do you
react towards them?
128. How do you effectively communicate with a child?

129. How do infants react? How would you work with a toddler? What
would you do for a patient who is 5-10 years old? What about an
adolescent? Middle aged? Eldery?
130. How are mental disabilities identified by? When was the
Americans with disability act enacted? What are the values of this
act?
131. What is Dementia? What is a result of it? What are the other 2
forms of dementia? Do all people with dementia have Alzheimers?
132. What are the Is of a Geriatric patient
133. What are psychological stresses of the geriatric community?
134. Special needs patients
135. What are changes with aging to the integumentary system?
Pulmonary system? Cardiovascular system? Gastrointestinal?
Hepatic? Genitourinary? Musculoskeletal? Neurological?
136. What is Diversity? What are characteristics of it?
137. What does Ethnicity mean? What is ethnocentrism? Racism?
138. What does assimilation mean? What is biculturalism mean?
139. What is Gender/sexual orientation?
140. What are the 5 elements of Cultural competency?