Unit 3 Quiz

A modern healthcare professional discussing treatment options with a patient in a warm, inviting clinic setting with shared decision-making materials visible.

Unit 3 Decision-Making Quiz

Test your understanding of decision-making frameworks in healthcare with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz covers various scenarios where shared decision-making is essential, as well as the importance of communication and health literacy in patient care.

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Shared Decision-Making
Patient-Centered Care
Health Literacy
Care Coordination

11 Questions3 MinutesCreated by GuidingCare101

When should you use share decision-making within the workplace?

During a financial review meeting

When a complex project has many individuals working toward a common goal

When there is an event to plan

When a leader needs help making a decision

A family meeting is called between the healthcare team and secondary services to discuss decisions that need to be made moving forward, for the patient. Which clinical framework does this illustrate?

Healthcare professional perspective

Nursing perspective

Patient and family perspective

System representative perspective

A healthcare coordinator is preparing to discuss treatment options with a patient diagnosed with critical illness. Which action demonstrates that the healthcare coordinator is using shared-decision making with the patient?

The healthcare coordinator offers a limited number of treatment options to reduce the patient’s stress level.

The healthcare coordinator discusses all treatment options and asks the patient to choose.

The healthcare coordinator explains to the patient a personal preference for treatment.

The healthcare coordinator schedules the treatment with the best outcomes.

Which phase of the decision-making process focuses on the feasibility, impact, and cost of an idea versus the benefit?

Identifying the problem

Selecting an alternative

Weighing the alternatives

Searching for alternatives

A care coordination team is reviewing the outcome of a meeting with a patient. What should be done once the team identifies a list of tasks to complete before the next meeting?

Prioritize the tasks

Assign the tasks

Perform the tasks

Review the tasks

A care coordinator is instructing a patient and family on lifestyle changes to help decrease the patients blood pressure. Which type of model for motivating patients does this illustrate?

Collective action model

Behavioral change model

Self-empowerment model

Nursing health model

When communicating to an individual a complex plan of care that involves written materials, what is an important aspect that should be considered?

Reading level and educational level

Patient’s vehicle

Previous patient experience

Income

What is the importance of health literacy?

It contributes to effective healthcare practices.

It helps healthcare providers openly communicate with one another.

It ensures a level of education among patients.

Reading the signs in the hospital.

A patient with high cholesterol is not following the recommended treatment plan. What should the care coordinator do to help the patient take a more active role in the management of the disease?

Spend extra time with the patient to answer questions.

Tell the patient the websites she needs to read, and provide analyses of, before her next appointment. 

Give the patient the phone number of the to a diabetes support group she is assigned to attend for the next 6 weeks.

Tell the patient which goals she needs to accomplish before the next appointment.

The care coordinator determines that a patient with chronic health problems would benefit from self-directed care. What information about this care approach should be explained to the patient?

Patients receive government funds to hire providers of their choice.

It is a type of managed care program.

The case coordinator refers the patient to home care.

It is a type of fee-for-service program.

Which term defines the branch of philosophy that focuses on the nature of knowledge, how people learn, and what people know?

Empiricism

Epistemology

Rationalism

Metaphysics

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