Author Question: A new employee asks about reducing health care costs to the hospital. What would help to reduce ... (Read 361 times)

abc · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

A new employee asks about reducing health care costs to the hospital. What would help to reduce health care costs in the clinical setting? Select all that apply.

a. Frequent handwashing
b. Delegating taking of vital signs of a new admission to the UAP
c. Turning at-risk patients frequently
d. Discharging patients before their lab results are back
e. Instituting early ambulation of patients after surgery

Question 2

There is a going-away party for one of the nurses, who has been promoted to a managerial position in another hospital that is part of the same health care organization.

Photographs have been taken of nurses around the unit as a way for the nurse to remember fellow colleagues. If patients are inadvertently photographed and no consent for this is obtained, this is an example of: a. assault. c. invasion of privacy.
b. battery. d. defamation.

ryrychapman11 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A, C, E

Feedback
Correct Frequent handwashing has been shown to reduce the risk of infections in the hospital.
Turning patients frequently will reduce the risk of pressure sores and a delay in discharge.
Early ambulation of patients after surgery can reduce complications.
Incorrect This would not help to reduce health care costs in the clinical setting.
This would not help to reduce health care costs in the clinical setting.

Answer to Question 2

C
Consent must always be obtained for any photographs or use of statements made by patients or to
disclose confidential information about a patient. Assault deals with the threat to touch another person
against their will, and battery is the actual act of touching or treating another person against their will.
Defamation (including libel and slander) is concerned with intentionally giving false information that
may cause the loss of a person's reputation.