HOSA clinical nursing competition Questions
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What system has greatly increased the number and types of health care settings?
Health care system
What health care workers help individuals and aggregates (groups) to improve health of the entire
community?
Community health nurses
What is the main difference between home health care nursing and public health care nursing?
Direct care to patients
What major health care involves teaching patients and families to care for themselves so as to
promote independent functioning?
Home health care
What is a major source of home health care funding?
Medicare
For what do these 4 conditions have to be met for?
1. the physician has determined the need 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
Medicare
What are the high-technology interventions (the provisions of intravenous therapy and ventilator),
hospice services, pediatric care, and mental health care for?
Specialty 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 disability?
Rehabilitation
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?
Disabled
As an effective member of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, the __________ is a care planner,
teacher, caregiver, counselor, coordinator, and advocate
Nurse
________ ________ workers must consider the way a disabled individual functions within the family
and the patient and family should be involved from the outset in determining the plan of care
Health care
, ___________ in activities of daily living is the best indicator of who will need nursing home placement
Dependence
What residential care exists in these 4 levels:
1. domiciliary care
2. sheltered housing
3. intermediate care
4. skilled care
Modern long-term
Care delivered in _____________ residential facility is based on 3 principles:
1. promotion of independence
2. maintenance of function
3. maintenance of autonomy (freedom from external authority to make decisions about one's health
and health care)
Long-term care
What is the cornerstone of the healing process?
Nutrition
To support and maintain life for fight disease, the body must be supplied with the proper __________
Nutrients
What process involves enzymes helping break down food particles to their simplest form so that the
nutrients can be absorbed by the body?
Digestive
What body system regulates neural control and the secretion of hormones?
Gastrointestinal
Parasympathetic nerves stimulate what?
Digestive activity
What major organ is normally emptied in 1-4 hours, depending on the amount and kinds of food
eaten?
Stomach
The primary organ of absorption is the _______ _________
Small intestine
Fluids, vitamins, and minerals are absorbed through the intestinal ___________
Mucosa
and answers latest update
What system has greatly increased the number and types of health care settings?
Health care system
What health care workers help individuals and aggregates (groups) to improve health of the entire
community?
Community health nurses
What is the main difference between home health care nursing and public health care nursing?
Direct care to patients
What major health care involves teaching patients and families to care for themselves so as to
promote independent functioning?
Home health care
What is a major source of home health care funding?
Medicare
For what do these 4 conditions have to be met for?
1. the physician has determined the need 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
Medicare
What are the high-technology interventions (the provisions of intravenous therapy and ventilator),
hospice services, pediatric care, and mental health care for?
Specialty 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 disability?
Rehabilitation
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?
Disabled
As an effective member of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, the __________ is a care planner,
teacher, caregiver, counselor, coordinator, and advocate
Nurse
________ ________ workers must consider the way a disabled individual functions within the family
and the patient and family should be involved from the outset in determining the plan of care
Health care
, ___________ in activities of daily living is the best indicator of who will need nursing home placement
Dependence
What residential care exists in these 4 levels:
1. domiciliary care
2. sheltered housing
3. intermediate care
4. skilled care
Modern long-term
Care delivered in _____________ residential facility is based on 3 principles:
1. promotion of independence
2. maintenance of function
3. maintenance of autonomy (freedom from external authority to make decisions about one's health
and health care)
Long-term care
What is the cornerstone of the healing process?
Nutrition
To support and maintain life for fight disease, the body must be supplied with the proper __________
Nutrients
What process involves enzymes helping break down food particles to their simplest form so that the
nutrients can be absorbed by the body?
Digestive
What body system regulates neural control and the secretion of hormones?
Gastrointestinal
Parasympathetic nerves stimulate what?
Digestive activity
What major organ is normally emptied in 1-4 hours, depending on the amount and kinds of food
eaten?
Stomach
The primary organ of absorption is the _______ _________
Small intestine
Fluids, vitamins, and minerals are absorbed through the intestinal ___________
Mucosa
