Quality Control Exam |Questions and
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When are the NPSGs updated? - ✔ ✔ Annually
National Committee for Quality Assurance - ✔ ✔ Accredits managed
care organizations
Is accreditation from the national committee for quality assurance mandatory
or voluntary? - ✔ ✔ Voluntary
Leapfrog Group - ✔ ✔ Growing Conglamuration on non healthcare Fortune
500 company leaders who are committed to modernizing the current
healthcare system
What has Leapfrog Group identified as the four evidence-based standards they
believe will provide the greatest impact on reducing medical errors? - ✔ ✔ -
computerized physician-provider order entry
-evidence-based hospital referral
-Intensive care physician unit staffing
-Leapfrog Safe Practice Scores
, Quality Control - ✔ ✔ Activities that evaluate, monitor, or regulate
services rendered to the consumer
If nursing is to strive for excellence, criteria should be pushed to optimal levels
rather than minimally acceptable levels
Healthcare Quality - ✔ ✔ Degree to which health services for individuals and
populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are
consistent with current professional knowledge.
What is the process of quality control? - ✔ ✔ -Criterion or standard is determined
-Information is collected to determine if the standard has been met
-Educational or corrective action is taken if the criterion has not been met
Root Cause analysis - ✔ ✔ to determine why standards weren't met
Benchmarking - ✔ ✔ Process of measuring products, practices and services
against best-performing organizations
Used for standard development and performance improvement
What are the steps (8) in auditing quality control? - ✔ ✔ -Establish control
criteria -Identify the information relevant to the criteria
-Determine ways to collect the information
-Collect and analyze the information
-Compare collected information with the established criteria
-Make a judgment about quality
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