Various levels of care are available for an older adult. Select the statement that best identifies the level of care described. Long-term care facilities (nursing homes)
a. provide a comfortable place for a person to spend their dying days
b. provide care for persons who are too crippled or confused to remain at home
c. provide a residence for persons who cannot continue to live independently; they need not have any severe mental or physical disabilities
d. provide a residence for persons who cannot continue to live independently; they must have some noticeable mental or physical disability
c. provide a residence for persons who cannot continue to live independently; they need not have any severe mental or physical disabilities
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What are duties of a team leader? (Select all that apply.)
a. Receiving reports on assigned patients b. Making patient assignments for team members c. Assessing all assigned patients d. Assisting with medication administration e. Conferring with team members
The nurse attempting to develop a plan of care that addresses a client's spirituality should incorporate measures to address
a. broad concepts related to values, meaning, and purpose. b. only those individual aspects of the self that the client has shared with the nurse. c. the client's religion and the specific degree of participation in the church. d. the personal relationship between God and the client.
A female patient tells the nurse that she has been taking special vitamins to "increase the production of eggs" so that she can get pregnant. The nurse realizes that this patient is:
1. being proactive in her attempts to become pregnant. 2. a healthy female and should not worry. 3. anxious about nothing. 4. misinformed.
Autonomic dysreflexia affects persons:
a. In persistent vegetative states b. With hemiplegia c. With spinal cord injuries above the mid-thoracic level d. With ALS