Q 1: An employer may defend against discrimination charges by demonstrating that it engaged in nondiscriminatory practices or that its actions were justified. General defenses include all of the following, except:

Group of answer choices

1. A bona fide occupational qualification.
2. A bona fide seniority or merit system.
3. A labor agreement that specifies that only persons with certain characteristics may be hired.
4. A professionally developed test that is job-related and consistent with business necessity.

Q 2: All of the following are true about the Americans with Disabilities Act, except:

Group of answer choices

1. Employers cannot request a medical examination of a prospective employee before extending an offer of employment.
2. Employers may be required to create a new job for an applicant with a disability.
3. An employer may exclude an applicant or an employee from the workplace due to a disability if the individual is a direct threat to health or safety.
4. Employers may be asked to make reasonable accommodation for an individual with a disability.

Q 3: Which of the following statements is not true under the Family and Medical Leave Act?

Group of answer choices

1. Employees may take leave intermittently or in blocks of time up to 12 work weeks in a 12 month period.
2. Employees must be paid for FMLA time off.
3. Employers must maintain eligible employees pre-existing group health insurance coverage during the leave and restore eligible employees to the same or equivalent position at the conclusion of the FMLA leave.
4. Employees may take leave to care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition or when the employee him or herself is unable to work because of his or her own serious condition.

Q4: Initially under US labor law, physicians and staff in medical professions were excluded from membership and representation by unions; today many doctors and nurses and other healthcare professionals are actively seeking eligibility to be included in labor organizations.

Group of answer choices

True

False

Q5: Because healthcare work places are so tightly regulated and licensed by various agencies, the Occupational Safety and Health Acts health and safety standards and its general duty clause do not apply.

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True

False

Q6: The American Organization of Nurse Executives has stated that which of the following are core competencies required of nurse executives:

Group of answer choices

1. All of these are core competencies for a nurse executive.
2. Knowledge of the health care environment
3. Leadership skills
4. Communication and relationship building.

Q7: Case managers are usually responsible for which of the following duties;

Group of answer choices

1. Plan for nursing services on a strategic level.
2. Plan for services anticipated at discharge.
3. a and c, but not b
4. Anticipate patient discharge needs.

Q8: The personal responsible to make sure that care is provided as planned for the patient population on the unit is the:

Group of answer choices

1. Charge nurse.
2. Case manager.
3. Nurse executive.
4. Frontline manager.

Q9: Traditionally, the nursing department in a healthcare organization has been organized with a single-leader hierarchy and pyramid type organizational structure.

Group of answer choices

True

False

Q10: Because the IPPS rule effective October 1, 2008 eliminates payment for certain conditions unless they are present on admission, conditions that develop during outpatient services such as in the ED or during outpatient surgery would not be considered as present on admission.

Group of answer choices

True

False

Q11: The aim of marketing is to create, communicate, and deliver ______.

Group of answer choices

1. Product
2. Service
3. Value
4. Profit

Q12: Which of the following is NOT true about the merger of two or more healthcare organizations?

Group of answer choices

1. The most common result of hospital mergers has been to eliminate one of the hospitals as an acute care hospital
2. Larger merged entities tend to function more effectively and are more marketable
3. Smaller merged entities may not offer marketing advantages
4. Mergers are often a process not so much of merging with the competition as much as it is a process of eliminating the competition.

Q13: The development of a good marketing strategy requires an analysis of the organizations competitive position. All of the following are approaches to do such an analysis except

Group of answer choices

1. Competitor-oriented analysis
2. Customer-oriented analysis
3. Costs and benefits analysis