Meditech Pcs Initial Patient Encounter
Competency quiz
- 1.From the Status Board, what button from the right side menu do you click on to start documenting the cares you provided to your patients?
- A.
Interventions
- B.
Outcomes
- C.
Process Plan
- D.
Notes
- 2.How do you exit PCS?
- A.
By clicking on the black X in the upper right hand corner
- B.
By clicking on the Exit PCS button
- C.
By restarting the computer
- D.
Both A and B
- 3.When you get a new admission, what is the first thing you must do in order to be able to document in PCS?
- A.
Add a Standard of Care (SOC) to the patient
- B.
Add a Care Plan to the patient
- C.
Remove the patient from your status board
- D.
None of the above
- 4.Which button will allow you to enter a Standard of Care or add more interventions for you to document on for your patient?
- A.
Document
- B.
Edit Status
- C.
Select Status
- D.
Add Intervention
- 5.The color purple in Meditech typically means:
- A.
You have duplicate items on your intervention worklist
- B.
You need to save your documentation
- C.
Nothing, this in the normal background color
- D.
That you need to add a care plan for the patient
- 6.When you completely finished documenting on an intervention and will never need to use the intervention again, what should you do?
- A.
Nothing
- B.
Change the status of the intervention to complete
- C.
Add a new Standard of Care to the patient
- D.
Remove the patient from your status board
- 7.What is the Associated Data column used for?
- A.
Showing protocols that you need to document an intervention
- B.
Editing your documentation
- C.
Pulling data from the EMR/Open Chart so you can see what was last documented on the patient
- D.
Tells you the next scheduled time an intervention is due to be documented on
- 8.What are the two sets of documents that need to be completed within 24-hours of the patient admission?
- A.
The Past Medical History and the Admission Database
- B.
The Personal Hygiene Assessment and the Admission Database
- C.
The General Education Record and the Past Medical History
- D.
None of the above
- 9.When you are documenting a group assessment (ex: Past Medical History or System Flowsheet), which button do you use to navigate to the next piece of the assessment while you are documenting?
- A.
The Document button
- B.
The Select Status button
- C.
The File button
- D.
The Go To button
- 10.What is something called that can be documented in more than one location (ex: pulse, BP, wounds)?
- A.
An episode
- B.
An occurrence
- C.
A problem
- D.
An issue
- 11.When you are finished documenting an Intervention, what button do you click to save your documentation?
- A.
Edit
- B.
Return
- C.
Document
- D.
Save
- 12.What kinds of medications are documented as part of the Home Medications in the past Medical History?
- A.
Herbal
- B.
Over the counter medications
- C.
Prescription drugs
- D.
All of the above
- 13.What information must you record with your Home Medication Documentation?
- A.
Name of drug, dosage, frequency, reason, and last taken date/time
- B.
Name of drug, dosage, and frequency
- C.
Name of drug, how long patient has been taking drug, side effects of medication
- D.
Patient name, name of drug, reason for taking drug
- 14.What are you required to do based on hospital policy if your patient has smoked in the past 12-months?
- A.
Offer them a cigarette break Q4
- B.
Inform the charge nurse
- C.
Confiscate their cigarettes
- D.
Provide smoking cessation information to the patient and document it approprioately; ask if they are interested in nicotine replacement therapy while they are in the hospital
- 15.On your intervention worklist, any column with a _____________ background can be changed or updated directly by clicking on the screen.
- A.
Pink
- B.
Green
- C.
Gray
- D.
Blue
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