A nurse is teaching the staff about the Prospective Payment ...

[ENagel]

A nurse is teaching the staff about the Prospective Payment System (PPS). Which information should the nurse include in the teaching session?
 
  a. PPS establishes cost-based reimbursement for health care.
  b. PPS provides reimbursement for every service the patient receives.
  c. PPS establishes reimbursement rates based upon diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
  d. PPS provides money to the patient for health promotion use.

Question 2

While a nurse is assessing a patient's chest pain, the patient states, The pain hurts in the middle of my chest.
 
   The nurse asks, Can you tell me where the pain is exactly and describe what it feels like? Which attitude for critical thinking is the nurse using? a. Integrity
  b. Discipline
  c. Planning
  d. Nursing diagnosis

[janeli]

Answer to Question 1

C
PPS established diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Established by Congress in 1983, the PPS eliminated cost-based reimbursement, which is reimbursement for every service the patient receives. Hospitals serving patients using Medicare were no longer paid for all costs incurred in delivering care to a patient. Instead, inpatient hospital services for patients using Medicare were combined into 468 DRGs. PPS provides a preset amount of money to hospitals and health care providers for DRGs, not for health promotion. Managed care focuses on health promotion.

Answer to Question 2

B
The nurse is being thorough, which is using the critical thinking attitude of discipline. A discip-lined thinker misses few details and follows an orderly or systematic approach when collecting information, making decisions, or taking action. A person of integrity is honest and willing to admit to any mistakes or inconsistencies in his or her own behavior, ideas, and beliefs. Planning and nursing diagnosis are steps in the nursing process, not attitudes for critical thinking.

[ENagel]

Great answer, keep it coming

[kthug]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it