The Joint Commission's national Speak Up® campaign encourages patients to become active and informed participants on the healthcare team. The goal is to:
a. Prevent healthcare errors
b. Help control the cost of healthcare
c. Reduce the number of automobile accidents
d. Provide a forum for people without health insurance
A
The Joint Commission, with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, urges patients to take a role in preventing healthcare errors by becoming active, involved, and informed participants on the healthcare team. A reduction in healthcare errors could indirectly reduce healthcare costs, but this is not the intent of the campaign. The campaign has nothing to do with automobile accidents, as might be deduced from the fact that The Joint Commission and the CMS regulate healthcare agencies. The campaign has little relationship to insurance, other than to encourage clients to speak up, ask questions, and know their rights.
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During the nurse?s annual appraisal the ICU manager informs the nurse that his performance in not adequate to provide nursing care to this population. The manager informs the nurse they he be transferred back to the medical-surgical unit. Over the past few weeks the manager has pulled this nurse to work in the ICU unit. This type of management style causes: 1. Increased stress. 2. Role ambiguity. 3. Mistrust. 4. Disharmony.
The client has made a difficult decision to refuse treatment for a potentially curable malignancy. The nurse asks the client, "How are you going to tell your spouse about this decision?" What is the nurse attempting to assess?
1. Whether the client has considered all of the treatment options available. 2. Whether the client was able to choose freely among treatment options. 3. Whether the client is prepared to act on the decision. 4. Whether the client feels good about the decision made.
Community nurses help:
a. individuals. b. families. c. communities. d. all of the above.
A 52-year-old client is admitted to the hospital for surgery to treat lung cancer. The client says to the nurse, "I was an alcoholic for 15 years, and now that I'm 25 years sober, I'm being punished." Which statement by the nurse would be therapeutic?
A. "You started drinking at 12 years of age — is that why you feel that the cancer is retribution?" B. "Because you seem to be blaming yourself unnecessarily, perhaps we can talk about your illness and what you can expect after surgery." C. "Sounds like you feel that you're being punished for your drinking, yet you've been sober, so perhaps you're being rewarded by having a cancer that's curable." D. "You feel that you're being punished even though you've been sober for 25 years. Your doctor must have told you that the cancer is unrelated to alcohol."