The Joint Commission Requires Health Care Facilities to Twice Yearly

question 39

Multiple Choice

The Joint Commission requires health care facilities to twice yearly practice their:

• A) National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• B) Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
• C) Point of Distribution (POD)
• D) Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START)

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, showing how much each value differs from the mean.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve which describes the spread of a characteristic throughout a population, where most occurrences take place around the central peak and probabilities for values taper off equally towards both tails.

Symmetry

Symmetry in statistics refers to a situation where the two halves of a distribution mirror each other across a central point.

Modality

Refers to the manner or mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed.