how a healthcare coordinator improves the quality of care delivered in the community?
Serves as a bridge between patients, families, and other health
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A care coordinator collaborates with health care providers to ensure that a patient with a chronic health problem receives appropriate care, avoids hospitalization, and attends follow-up visits as scheduled.
For which reason should the healthcare coordinator use health information technology (HIT) to improve a patient's care?
It improves communication between clinicians and inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings.
A care coordinator is scheduled to meet with adolescents and adult patients in a community clinic.
Which action could a healthcare coordinator take to demonstrates how care coordination improves in disease management?
Meet with the school nurse to review the action plans for students with asthma.
Which action should a healthcare coordinator complete when establishing a plan of care for the patient?
Identify the needs, access to resources, and support services.
Which action should the healthcare coordinator perform when coordinating a patient's care plan?
Facilitates services to provide ongoing supportive care.
Which action will the healthcare coordinator take when coordinating care in a clinical setting?
Identifies strengths, barriers, and plans care.
In which way should a healthcare coordinator collaborate with a patient's interdisciplinary team?
Share patient responses to care and treatment during the meeting.
A healthcare coordinator is using motivational interviewing to counsel an adolescent with obesity.
In which way should they facilitate behavior change?
Encourages goals to change lifestyle and eating habits.
A healthcare coordinator is preparing to assess a patient from a non-English speaking culture.
In which way will they provide culturally appropriate care to this patient?
Honors the patient's choices and beliefs
Which step in evidence-based practice (EBP) determines if a revised protocol is a success?
Evaluate.
A healthcare coordinator assesses an adolescent patient in the behavior health clinic.
Which action should they take when prioritizing problems and goals that reduce anxiety and encourage compliance?
Plan the details for each task.
A healthcare coordinator is reviewing the treatment plans created by multiple providers to manage a patient's chronic illness. Which action should the healthcare coordinator take to ensure healthcare was appropriately delivered between the providers?
Review the plans for intervention alignment.
Which phase of intervention occurs following identification of potential services?
Planning
A healthcare services professional is coordinating services for a Muslim female patient that who does not want a male caregiver to complete an assessment.
Which intervention is appropriate at this stage based on individualization?
The male caregiver should leave the room and ask if a female caregiver is available.
A patient with a history of liver cirrhosis has documentation that indicates 6 months of abstinence from alcohol.
Which stage of change is the patient demonstrating?
Maintenance
Which type of therapy helps a patient understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behavior?
Cognitive behavioral
Which techniques are used for motivational interviewing?
Open questions, affirmation, reflective listening, and summary reflections
Which statement shows a correct usage of cognitive reframing?
"Your husband is in Heaven now and is no longer in pain."
During treatment for opioid overdose, a provider assesses the patient's level and then asks about substance use and associated behaviors.
Which step of substance abuse screening is the provider completing?
Brief intervention
What would be a SMART goal for a patient who is one day post total knee replacement surgery?
Patient will walk one lap around the unit with minimal pain by postoperative day four.
Which question should a patient with a history of alcohol abuse be asked when using motivational interviewing?
"What role does alcohol play in your life?"
After a patient has heart surgery, a surgeon changes the patient's medications and asks to have the patient's blood pressure and heart rate monitored weekly.
Which strategic partner should take on this task?
Home health nurse
What is the distinguishing characteristic of the brokerage case management model?
It links the client with available community resources and contacts.
A patient with a smoking history is newly diagnosed with lung disease and is being discharged to home in the care of her spouse.
Which action demonstrates support for patient autonomy?
Asking the patient about her preferences
What does the M stand for in the SMART model of goal setting?
Measurable
The healthcare coordinator of a substance abuse center is responsible for obtaining intake information.
What is an effective interview technique?
Beginning with less personal questions to establish trust
Which step in the case management process is defined as executing activities or interventions that lead to the patient accomplishing the goals of the plan?
Implementation
Which SBIRT intervention is in use when a care team associate teaches a low-risk patient about moderate drinking limits?
Brief intervention
What is the first step in determining which safeguards should be put in place to protect electronic medical records?
Conduct a risk assessment for the organization
In an effort to comply with the health information portability accountability act (HIPPA), the implementation of which strategy can help mitigate the risk of EMR data breaches?
Assigning different levels of access based upon employee role.
Which action should be taken to ensure patient assessments are documented timely and accurately into the electronic medical record (EMR)?
Document the assessment as it is being completed.
A continuing education program is being designed that focuses on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Which is an example of inappropriate use of personal health information (PHI)?
Advertising a service related to a patient's illness.
A family member calls a medical-surgical care area and asks for the results of a patient's tests.
Which action should be taken?
Check to see if the patient has set up a password for the medical record.
While riding in the elevator with a colleague, the care coordinator is asked about a specific patient.
What should the care coordinator do?
Refuse to discuss the patient if the colleague is not involved in the patient's care.
A group of physicians, hospitals, and ancillary healthcare providers are collaborating to provide care to patients enrolled in Medicare. Which term best describes this structure of care providers?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
The care coordinator is researching the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) for a patient. Which should be identified as a practice of this legislation?
Prohibits health insurance to be cancelled for a new illness
A patient's insurance company is evaluating the appropriateness of required emergency surgery before paying the insurance claim. Which process is the insurance company using for this review?
Retrospective review
Which mechanism is a useful tool when formally documenting the benefits of case management efforts?
Cost avoidance reporting
What is an advantage of using computerized provider order entry (CPOE)?
It reduces the number of prescription errors.
A care coordinator is working with a woman who has an intellectual disability. The woman's son is interested in reading his mother's medical records and asks the care coordinator for help.
Which action must be taken to prevent a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violation?
Have the son obtain a medical power of attorney
The care coordinator is discussing care options with a patient diagnosed with end-stage renal disease. What should the care coordinator explain about palliative and hospice care?
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