A nurse works in a home care agency that uses a center of excellence (COE) concept and functions to assist local home care nurses. Which of the following services would be provided by these nurses? Select all that apply

Question

A) Cooking meals for clients
B) Light housekeeping
C) Wound care
D) Psychiatric management
E) Continence care
F) Daily medications

Answer 1

C, D, E
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With a COE, a team of nurses with specific expertise is in place to assist local home care nurses. The expertise of a COE team may include wound care, continence care and bowel/bladder retraining, IV and other high-technology care, psychiatric management and crisis intervention, maternal–child healthcare or maternity consultation, and pediatric high-technology, including care of ventilator-dependent children. The COE nurses may make the actual home visits or may serve as consultants to a staff nurse from the local home care agency. Housekeeping and cooking may be provided by home care aides, and daily medications would be provided by visiting home care nurses.