To best help manage health care costs in older adults, the nurse entrepreneur would do which of the following?
a. Create a telehealth system where nurses could check on patients daily.
b. Provide local transportation services for older people to keep appointments.
c. Create educational videos in multiple languages seen in the community.
d. Build a nurse-run clinic to serve the homeless and underinsured population.
A
The majority of health care expenditure is spent on chronic illness. Patients with chronic illnesses have multiple hospitalizations for exacerbations of their conditions. Keeping chronic conditions under control would make a difference in health care cost. A telehealth service in which nurses could assess and counsel patients daily could help accomplish that goal. The other ideas are good too, but tight control of chronic conditions is a priority.
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