A nurse is employed in home health nursing practice. Which of the following terms best describes the care that is being provided?
a. Intermittent nursing care
b. Custodial care
c. Family caregiving
d. Palliative care
ANS: A
Provision of intermittent skilled visits is a component of home health care nursing. Custodial care refers to the care given in long-term care facilities. Family caregiving may be an important role of keeping the client at home, but it is not a necessary component of home care. Palliative care is an extended continuum of chronic serious illness to acute serious illness during which stabilization and exacerbations may occur.
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