The Best Way to Ensure You Have the Right Patient

question 32

Multiple Choice

The best way to ensure you have the right patient, in the medical office setting, is to:

• A) call the patient by name
• B) check the ID bracelet
• C) check the picture in the patient chart
• D) ask another staff member who the patient is

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Definitions:

Social Roles

The expectations, behaviors, and duties that society attributes to individuals based on their identity or position within a group.

Stereotypes

Widely held but fixed and oversimplified images or ideas of a particular type of person or thing, often based on limited information.

Appearances

Appearances refer to the outward or visual aspects of someone or something, how entities are perceived visually by others.

Stereotypic Judgments

Stereotypic judgments are assessments made about individuals or groups based on generalized beliefs or stereotypes rather than on their individual characteristics.