Exam 9: Chronic Illness and Rehabilitation

The nurse is seeking to motivate a frustrated patient who is learning to walk again after a stroke.Which intervention would be most effective?

The nurse working in a long-term care facility is aware that in order to comply with Medicare guidelines,documentation of assessment findings that measure physical,psychological,and psychosocial functioning are necessary using the _____________________.

Long-term health care facilities are the center of treatment for which type of patients?

The nurse is educating a 70-year-old patient who just had a cast removed from a broken arm.The nurse should teach the patient about which potential effect of immobility related to casting?

The patient who has been in traction for bilateral femur fractures complains of constipation.Which action(s)should the nurse take?

A resident with advanced Parkinson disease stays in his wheelchair all day.He reports that he is too tired to walk and is fearful of falling.Which intervention to increase the patient's mobility should the nurse add to the patient's care plan?

The LPN/LVN making care assignments to nursing assistants would not assign a patient who has which problem?

The rehabilitation nurse makes the point that a dysfunction of a specific body part is termed __________.

When the confused resident pours his cereal in a cup and "drinks" it,how should the nurse best respond?

The long-term care facility nurse is discussing fall prevention measures with the charge nurse.Which replacement should the nurse suggest?