Exam 36: Home Health Nursing

Speech therapy goals include minimizing speech disorders and maximizing rehabilitation of speech abilities.To be reimbursed by Medicare,who must provide these services?

The LPN/LVN may provide many services to the patient in the home.Several of these are high-level skills.Under whose supervision should these high-level skills be directed and performed?

What should be the focus when the family and the patient work with the nurse to plan interventions?

When implementing quality assurance-specific criteria,measurements are developed for three criteria: structural,process,and outcome.How is this method of assessment different from previous methods?

The nurse describes a new technological service to the patient that will monitor several assessments remotely.This new intervention is known as ___________ home visits.

When should discharge planning begin for a patient receiving home care services?

After the patient is admitted to the home health services system,a treatment plan is drafted cooperatively with the physician and is signed.A separate,detailed care plan is always required for which disciplines?

The licensed nurse can delegate which task(s)to the home health assistive personnel?

The nurse should provide the patient and family with accurate health information concerning diagnoses and progress.What will accurate information help the family to become?

The evaluation and admission process for entry to the home health care system includes physical and psychosocial examination,explanation of the patient's rights,and evaluation of family,home,and nursing interventions.What is the normal minimum time for the admission visit?

By offering enteral,parenteral,intravenous,and blood transfusion therapies,what can home care services prevent?

How often must the homecare treatment plan be recertified in order for the patient to continue to receive services?

For physical therapy services to be reimbursed by Medicare,what must be the goal of the therapy?

During a time of acute illness,the family may become extremely distressed and neglect the needs of other family members.On what does the family seem to focus?

What has been influenced by the increase in home health providers supporting healthy living and illness prevention,and a movement toward deinstitutionalization of technology-dependent children and adults?

The patient,family,social service agency,hospital,physician,or another agency all can provide the entry point to the home health care system.What is the entry point for the home health care system called?

Complete documentation is essential and must include an accurate picture of the type and quality of care given,as well as the effectiveness of the plan of care.Which model should be followed to best provide adequate documentation?

The home health nurse plans interventions to meet which general service goals? (Select all that apply.)

What became effective in 1966 by an act of legislation that revolutionized home care?

Medicaid pays for home care services for people who have low incomes.Who administers the Medicaid program?