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Questions

1. The manager knows that a certain project will improve patient care and will probably save the hospital money, but the project does not generate revenue. The manager should...

A. Consider making a business case for the project.

B. Disregard this project since it is not profitable.

C. Ignore the fact that this project does not generate light green dollars.

D. Wait until the project generates dark green dollars.

2. Issues such as cost and quality are addressed using:

A. Automatic reductions in hospital charges.

B. Health care policy and initiatives.

C. Strategies to replace RNs with Physician Assistants.

D. Higher prices for new technologies.

3. Health care parity refers to:

A. The need to limit access so that health care is affordable.

B. Making sure that health care in the U.S. is equal to that of other countries.

C. Equalizing resources allocated to various diseases.

D. When federal health expenditures are equal to defense expenditures.

4. Universality allows for:

A. Relatively equal access to health care.

B. Exploration of time and space.

C. Everyone behaving in a similiar manner.

D. All hospital charging the same price.

5. When considering health policy and future trends in health care, efficiency is closely related to trends in:

A. Aging and end-of-life issues.

B. Experimental procedures.

C. Improving productivity.

D. Setting priorities for access to care.

6. An important future trend affecting U.S. health care is:

A. New styles in the construction of health care facilities.

B. Changing demographics of the populaton.

C. The movement from community-based care to inpatient care.

D. Migration of U.S. nurses to other countries.