Exam 2: Patient Care Settings

The nurse is making a list of the members of the rehabilitation team so that the different types of services available to patients may be taught to a group of families.Which of the following lists should be used?

A frail patient in a long-term care facility asks the nurse if a bath is to be given this morning.The best reply by the nurse that would encourage independence and give the patient the most flexibility would be:

While the home health nurse is making the entry to a service assessment on a home-bound patient,the wife of the patient asks whether Medicare will cover the patient's ventilator therapy and his insulin injections.The nurse responds:

The nurse explains that in 1990,when the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)was passed,it extended many services for the disabled persons such as:

The nurse describes community health nursing by using the example of:

The nurse explains the level of disability to a patient who was injured in a construction accident that resulted in the loss of both his right arm and right leg.Because this loss has affected his quality of life and his ability to return to his previous employment,he would be classified as being disabled at level: