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What system has greatly increased the number and types of health care settings? -
AnswerHealth care system
What health care workers help individuals and aggregates (groups) to improve health of the
entire community? - AnswerCommunity health nurses
What is the main difference between home health care nursing and public health care nursing? -
AnswerDirect care to patients
What major health care involves teaching patients and families to care for themselves so as to
promote independent functioning? - AnswerHome health care
What is a major source of home health care funding? - AnswerMedicare
For what do these 4 conditions have to be met for?
1. the physician has determined the need for home care and has made or authorized a plan for
home care
2. the patient needs intermitted skilled nursing care or physical or speech-language therapy or
continued occupational therapy
3. the patient is homebound
4. the agency providing the care is Medicare certified - AnswerMedicare
What are high-technology interventions (the provisions of intravennous therapy and ventilator),
hospice services, pediatric care, and mental health care for? - AnswerSpecialty home care
services
What is the process of restoring an individual to the best possible health and functioning
following a physical or mental impairment and the prevention of further disablity? -
AnswerRehabilitation
Caring for what type of patient requires the coordinated services of a large number of health
care professionals to help patients stay healthy and prevent complications or injuries? -
AnswerDisabled
As an effective member of a multidiscipliary rehabilitation team, the ____ is a care planner,
teacher, caregiver, counselor, coordinator and advocate. - AnswerNurse
_____ _____ workers must consider the way a disabled individual funciton within the family and
, the patient and family should be involved from the outset in determining the plan of care -
AnswerHealth care
______ in activites of daily living is the best indicator of who will need nursing home placement. -
AnswerDependence
What residential care exists in these four levels:
1. domicilary care
2. sheltered housing
3. intermediate care
4. skilled care - AnswerModern long-term
Care delivered in ____-____ _____ residential facility is based on three principles:1. promontion
of independence
2. maintenance of function
3. maintenance of autonomy (freedom from external authority to make decisions about one's
health and health care) - AnswerLong-term care
What is is the cornerstone of the healing process. To support and maintain life or fight disease,
the body must be supplied with the proper nutrients? - AnswerNutrition
What process involves enzymes help break down food particles to their simplest form so that the
nutrients can be absorbed by the body? - AnswerDigestive
What body system regulates neural control and the secrection of hormones? -
AnswerGastrointestinal
Parasympathetic nerves simulate what? - AnswerDigestive activity
What major organ is is normally emptied in 1 to 4 hours, dependign on the amount and kinds of
foods eaten? - AnswerStomach
The primary organ of absorbtion is the ____ _____. - AnswerSmall intestine
Fluids, vitamins, and minerals are absorbed through the intestinal _____. - AnswerMucosa
The body makes use the energy received through the food that is eaten, and the _____ portion
of _____ expenditure occurs during rest to carry out the mechanical activities needed to sustain
life processes. - AnswerLargest/energy
Although ______ are the body's main source of food energy, ____ are the most concentrated
source. - AnswerCarbohydrates/fats
Most of the energy needed to move, perform activites, and live is consumed in the form of
_____, which are converted primarily to glucose for immediate use by the body's cells. -