Which best describes how complementary and alternative therapies differ from traditional health care?

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Alternative or complementary therapies are expanding because of consumer demand although reimbursement for these services is lagging. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is currently researching their effects on health and disease. Training and licensure requirements vary widely. Many nurses have incorporated alternative therapies into their practice and seek more continuing education on such care.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Health care facilities often have a 'patients' bill of rights.' Typically, a patients' bill of rights is a list of guarantees or promises for those receiving care at that facility or by providers. Generally included are guarantees of confidentiality, promises of access to information, fair treatment, informed consent, and autonomy over decisions, among other rights. Other patients' rights issues that are vitally important that continue to be discussed and debated are information disclosure, physician and provider choice, direct access to specialists, reimbursement for emergency care, and reimbursement denial.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Accreditation is one means to assess the quality of services and care of the organization. Specific minimum standards must be met by an organization to obtain accreditation. Indeed, accreditation serves the purpose of instilling public confidence in a program, institution, or organization (IOM, 2016). Accrediting organizations require outcomes data, which they use to assess overall performance, but these data are collected by the agency, not the accrediting organization.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Title V of the Social Security Act mandates states to provide services for children with special health care needs (crippled children's services), making (C) correct. WIC provides nutrition support, not comprehensive health care (A is incorrect). Not all children at or below poverty level automatically qualify for Medicaid (B is incorrect). MCH funding faced cuts under Reagan (D is incorrect).

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Immunization has the greatest potential for disease prevention in the U.S. due to its proven effectiveness in controlling infectious diseases like measles and polio, impacting large populations efficiently.