Exam 2: Admitting, transfer, and Discharge

The plan for patient discharge from a health care facility begins:

The nurse is admitting the patient to the medical unit.The patient indicates that he has had several surgeries in the past and has been a diabetic for the last 15 years.He also states that he has allergies to sulfa and eggs.He claims that he had severe back pain earlier that morning,but the pain has finally gone since he received a "pain shot" in the Emergency Department.The nurse realizes that she must:

The phase of the discharge process where medical attention dominates discharge planning efforts is known as:

________________________is a federal law intended to protect patients from being transferred against their wishes to another hospital.

A document that gives a patient instructions about future medical care or that designates another person(s)to make medical decisions if the individual loses decision-making capacity is known as an ________________.

The patient is scheduled to go home after having coronary angioplasty.The most effective way to provide discharge teaching to this patient would be to:

Separation anxiety is most common in:

While preparing for the patient's discharge,the nurse uses a discharge planning checklist and notes that the patient is concerned about going home because she lives alone.The nurse realizes that successful recovery at home is often based on:

When a patient's discharge is completed,an activity that may be delegated to assistive personnel is the:

The Joint Commission (2007)has stated that matching an individual's ongoing needs with the appropriate level and type of medical,psychological,health,or social care or services within an organization or across multiple organizations is known as ________________.