NAHQ NAHQ-CPHQ Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

NAHQ NAHQ-CPHQ Online Questions & Answers

• Question 481:

  Medical staff monitoring Indicators are best developed through a collaborative effort between the hospital's quality management professionals and the

  A. Chief Medical Officer.
  B. director of utilization management.
  C. Quality Council.
  D. hospital's administrative leadership.
  C. Quality Council.

• Question 482:

  Multi-voting Is frequently used in which of the following steps of the quality Improvement process?

  A. identifying root causes
  B. speculating on problem causes
  C. prioritizing Improvement opportunities
  D. Implementing solutions and controls
  C. prioritizing Improvement opportunities

• Question 483:

  Medication reconciliation Is described as

  A. documenting a complete list of medications into the medical record including name, dose, route and frequency.
  B. the process of Identifying an accurate list of medications and comparing to another list.
  C. providing a complete list of medications to the patient andpower of attorney at discharge.
  D. contacting the primary care provider and validating the medication list.
  B. the process of Identifying an accurate list of medications and comparing to another list.

• Question 484:

  An emergency department's quality Improvement report for the first quarter showed the following data:

  

  What was the approximate overall problem rate for March?

  A. 1%
  B. 2%
  C. 15%
  D. 18%
  B. 2%

• Question 485:

  Over the past 2 months, a trend has been detected in medication errors. The preferred method of presenting data to the nursing Quality Council will identify the nurse by

  A. a coding system with the key attached to the report.
  B. initials.
  C. name.
  A. a coding system with the key attached to the report.

• Question 486:

  A hospital's leadership team has asked the quality professional to review alternative accreditation options for the organization. The quality professional recommends the:

  A. American Hospital Association
  B. DNV GL Healthcare
  C. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
  D. National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
  B. DNV GL Healthcare

• Question 487:

  Which of the following presents a set of high-level measures grouped into learning and growth, customer, internal business, and financial?

  A. balanced scorecard
  B. histogram
  C. matrix diagram
  D. Gantt chart
  A. balanced scorecard

• Question 488:

  A home healthcare organization is looking to identify third-party endorsed outcome measures for the following areas:

  1.improvement in medication management

  2.improvement in ambulation

  3.improvement inpain

  Which organization can best provide this information?

  A. Leapfrog Group
  B. The Joint Commission (TJC)
  C. URAC
  D. National Quality Forum (NQF)
  D. National Quality Forum (NQF)

• Question 489:

  A recent journal article has identified three new patient safety initiatives. When reviewing these initiatives, the first action of a healthcare quality professional is to:

  A. Determine the applicability of the initiatives to an organization.
  B. Incorporate the initiatives into the organization's patient safety plan.
  C. Collect data on the three initiatives.
  D. Assign owners to the identified initiatives.
  A. Determine the applicability of the initiatives to an organization.

• Question 490:

  Which of the following is best solved by a quality improvement team?

  A. Financial variance
  B. Systems issue
  C. Customer complaint
  D. Discipline problem
  B. Systems issue