HIPAA — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Family member asks for information regarding patient's prognosis.

Answer: Avoid discussing patient information with relatives without permission of the patient.

Flashcard 2: Patients typically get exposed to _____ radiation via nuclear reactor accidents or radiotherapy

Answer: Ionizing

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Flashcard 3: In the hospital, patients with multi-drug resistant organisms, enteric organisms, and scabies require _____ precautions

Answer: contact

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Flashcard 4: What positioning may lower the risk of ventilator-acquired pneumonia? _____

Answer: Semirecumbent

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Flashcard 5: What position should patients with suspected arterial air embolism be placed? _____

Answer: Supine

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Flashcard 6: What is the most likely complication to occur in a patient receiving total parenteral nutrition for one week? _____

Answer: Bloodstream infection (bacterial or fungal)

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Flashcard 7: What is the typical cause of zero urinary output after surgery? _____

Answer: Usually mechanical problem - look for plugged or kinked catheter

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