Module 5 Sample Questions

1. Which act incentivizes pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs to treat rare diseases?

A) Nyman Model Act

B) Orphan Drug Act

C) Physician Payment Review Commission Act

D) New Chemical Entities Act

2. In what year was the first nurse practitioner program established?

A) 1955

B) 1995

A) 1965

B) 1985

3. What nursing skill did the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative seek to improve?

A) Clinical practice guideline implementation

b) Systems thinking

C) Computer and information literacy

D) Patient counseling and risk reduction

4. You are a new nurse practitioner opening your own solo practice. You understand that you are expected to be competent in your role of treating and diagnosing patients. As a nurse practitioner, you are expected to be competent in all of the following core competency areas except:

A) Scientific foundations

b) Leadership

C) Credentialing

d) Quality

5. What 1960 legal precedent approved a test of competence that determines if a criminal defendant is competent to stand trial?

A) Dusky vs. United States

b) Rennie vs. Klein

C) Durham vs. United States

D) O'Connor vs. Donaldson

6. Which national organization wrote the groundbreaking 2010 report titled The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health?

A) Institute of Medicine

b) American Nurses Association

C) American Nurse Practitioner Association

D) National Institutes of Health

7. Managed care organizations attempt to control costs by doing all of the following except:

A) Bargain with medical practices for reduced rates on visits

B) Decrease the number of emergency room visits

C) Decrease the number of hospital stays

D) Enroll employees by offering premiums that cost more than those of traditional insurers

8. What term describes the amount charged for insurance coverage?

A) Deductible

B) Loading charge

C) Premium

D) Copayment

9. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine published Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. This report identified six goals for quality improvement in health care: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Which goal can be described as avoiding the waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy?

A) Timely

B) Equitable

C) Efficient

d) Effective

10. You are a new nurse practitioner opening your own solo practice. You understand that you are expected to be competent in your role of treating and diagnosing patients. As a nurse practitioner, you are expected to be competent in all of the following core competency areas except:

A) Technology and information literacy

B) Practice inquiry

C) ICD-9 and ICD-10 code memorization

d) Policy

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