Case Study Ms.Lopez Is a Widowed 68-Year-Old Nicaraguan Woman, an Immigrant Who

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Multiple Choice

Case Study
Ms.Lopez is a widowed 68-year-old Nicaraguan woman, an immigrant who has lived in the United States for ten years.She lives in a second-floor walk-up apartment with her daughter and son-in-law and their four children.Ms.Lopez is admitted to the hospital and is diagnosed with a stroke and has weakness in her left side.She complains of coughing when she drinks and feels that food sometimes gets caught in her throat.She has diabetes and high blood pressure and is on several oral medications.She does not check her sugar because she does not feel comfortable pricking her finger.Her body mass index (BMI) is 33.Ms.Lopez is undocumented and uninsured.
-Assessing whether Ms Lopez has any difficulty swallowing is the job of which member of the healthcare team?

• A)occupational therapist
• B)nurse
• C)social worker
• D)speech-language pathologist

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Definitions:

Activity-Based Costing

An accounting method that assigns costs to products or services based on the activities and resources that contribute to their creation or delivery.

Direct Labour-Hours

The total hours worked directly on the manufacturing of goods or provision of services, often used as a basis for allocating overhead.

Overapplied Overhead

When the allocated manufacturing overhead cost exceeds the actual overhead incurred, resulting in a surplus in the cost coverage.

Activity Cost Pools

Aggregations of all the costs associated with particular activities, used in activity-based costing.