The primary caregiver for a patient with Alzheimer disease receiving care in the home wants to attend a granddaughter's high school graduation in a city 50 miles from the patient's home. What should the home care nurse suggest so that the caregiver can attend this event?
A. Transport the patient with the caregiver to the graduation.
B. Admit the patient to hospice.
C. Schedule respite care for the caregiver.
D. Admit the patient to an inpatient facility.
Answer: C
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A newly licensed nurse is preparing to provide postmortem care to a client. The nurse approaches the preceptor and states that she has never done this before and she is nervous. What is the best response by the preceptor?
A) "It's just a dead body, it can't hurt you." B) "It is an important part of care; we need to show the family that the person was valued and respected. I can understand that you are nervous." C) "The families typically don't care about the body once the person is dead." D) "You can delegate this to the nursing assistant. Tell her to clean the body up when she is finished with her other work."
The nursing staff at a local hospital are unable to get to work because of deteriorating weather conditions. The administration realizes the lack of staff to provide care will impact which quality standard?
1. Improvement 2. Structure 3. Outcome 4. Process
Which statement about the four types of data collection is true?
a. A complete database is more focused than problem centered b. Follow up data involves rapid collection c. Complete database is only objective data d. Complete database is used to formulate nursing diagnosis and nursing process
In explaining alternative therapies to a client, the nurse may correctly say that these therapies:
1. Are not widely used in hospitals or reimbursed by insurance 2. Are often quackery and of little real value to those who use them 3. Have been widely researched and can take their place with allopathic medicine 4. Are more effective if used as preventive measures than if used for cure