A patient who experienced a stroke 4 days ago has been discharged from the hospital and will be undergoing outpatient rehabilitation. How should the nurse prepare the patient for this level of care?
a. The patient will be admitted to the rehabi-litative unit of the hospital.
b. The patient will have scheduled appoint-ment times for therapy.
c. The patient will have home visits from all members of the multidisciplinary team.
d. The patient will be at home for all of the treatments ordered by the primary health care provider.
B
When patients receive rehabilitation services in outpatient settings, patients get treatment at spe-cified times during the week but remain at home the rest of the time. Inpatient rehabilitation ser-vices would require admission to an inpatient facility. Some rehabilitation is offered in the home but usually only certain members of the health care team visit. Home rehabilitation services would have the treatments performed in the home, but not for outpatient rehabilitation.
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