NURS 3110-EXAM 1 WITH ACTUAL CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED DETAILED
ANSWERS| CURRENTLY TESTING VERSION |
ALREADY GRADED A+|EXPERT VERIFIED
FOR GUARANTEED PASS
home care
- provision of medically related professional and paraprofessional services and
equipment to patients and families in their home for health maintenance, education,
illness prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, palliation, and rehabilitation
- coordinates the access to and delivery of home health equipment
rehabilitation
- aimed to enabling people with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal
physical, sensory, intellectual, physiological, and social functional levels
- provides people with the tools they need to attain independence and self-
determination
- required after physical or mental illness, injury, or chemical addiction
- help patients and families adjust to necessary changes in lifestyle and learn to
function with the limitations of their disease
- include institutions within acute care centers, free-standing outpatient settings, and
the home
extended care facilities
- provides intermediate medical, nursing, or custodial care for patients recovering from
acute illness or those with chronic illnesses or disabilities
skilled nursing facility
- offered skilled care from a licensed nursing staff
- patients receive extensive supportive care until they are able to move back into the
community or into residential care
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,continuing care
- services are for people who are disabled, who were never functionally independent, or
who suffer from a terminal disease
- available within institutional settings, communities, or the home
nursing centers
- provides 24 hour intermediate and custodial care
- offers skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and long-term care
- residents receive a planned, systematic, and inter-professional approach to care to
help them reach and maintain their highest level of function
resident assessment instrument
- care plan format in nursing centers
- includes the minimum data set, the care area assessment process, and utilization
guidelines
minimum data set
- core set of screening, clinical, and functional status elements that forms the
foundation of the comprehensive assessment of all residents in long-term care facilities
certified to participate in Medicare or Medicaid
- initial overview of the resident's health care needs
- preliminary assessment to identify the resident's potential problems, strengths, and
preferences
- includes resident's background, cognitive sight and hearing patterns, physical
functioning, urinary continence, health conditions, mood patterns, activity patterns,
nutritional status, skin condition, medication use, and treatments
care area assessment process
- designed to assist the assessor to systematically interpret the information recorded on
the MDS
- trigger care areas that form a link to decisions about care planning
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,- enable facilities to identify and use tools that are grounded in current clinical
standards of practice
assisted living
- offers an attractive long-term care setting with an environment more like home and
greater resident autonomy
- provides independence, security, and privacy at the same time and promotes physical
and psychosocial health
respite care
- service that offers short-term relief by providing a new environment or time to relax for
family caregivers who support the ill, disabled, or frail older adult
adult day care centers
- provide a variety of health and social services to specific patient populations who live
alone or with family in the community
- services offered during the day allow families to maintain their lifestyles
- patients are typically physically frail, cognitively impaired, or require some supervision
but not continuous care
palliative care
- holistic, patient- and family-centered care approach with the goal of improving the
quality of life of patients and families who are experiencing problems related to life-
threatening illness
- delivered through the continuum of illness
- focuses on early identification and treatment; physical, psychosocial, and spiritual
problems; relief of pain and suffering; continuity of care; and helping patients and
families make informed decisions
hospice
- system of family-centered care that allows patients to live with comfort,
independence, and dignity while easing the pain of terminal illness
- patients are in the terminal phase of illness, and the patient, family caregiver, and
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, health care provider agree that no further treatment will reverse the disease process
- focus is supportive care
inpatient prospective payment system
- system of payment for the operating costs of acute-care hospital inpatient stays under
Medicare Part A based on prospectively expressed in the Social Security Act
diagnosis related group
- classification system used to determine payments from Medicare by assigning a
standard flat rate to major diagnostic categories
- flat rate is paid to hospitals regardless of the full cost of the services provided
hospital value based purchasing
- program that links a portion of hospital's medicare payments for inpatient acute care
to their performance in important quality measures
Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
- program that reduces medicare payments to hospitals with excess patient
readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge designed to encourage patient safety
and care quality
bundled payments for care improvement
- focuses on improving care for specific conditions by bundling payments for services
- encourages doctors and hospitals to better coordinate care during hospitalization and
after discharge
hospital acquired condition reduction
- program that intends to encourage hospitals to improve health care quality and patient
safety
- higher incidences of HACs receive reduced funding
patient-centered care
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QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED DETAILED
ANSWERS| CURRENTLY TESTING VERSION |
ALREADY GRADED A+|EXPERT VERIFIED
FOR GUARANTEED PASS
home care
- provision of medically related professional and paraprofessional services and
equipment to patients and families in their home for health maintenance, education,
illness prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, palliation, and rehabilitation
- coordinates the access to and delivery of home health equipment
rehabilitation
- aimed to enabling people with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal
physical, sensory, intellectual, physiological, and social functional levels
- provides people with the tools they need to attain independence and self-
determination
- required after physical or mental illness, injury, or chemical addiction
- help patients and families adjust to necessary changes in lifestyle and learn to
function with the limitations of their disease
- include institutions within acute care centers, free-standing outpatient settings, and
the home
extended care facilities
- provides intermediate medical, nursing, or custodial care for patients recovering from
acute illness or those with chronic illnesses or disabilities
skilled nursing facility
- offered skilled care from a licensed nursing staff
- patients receive extensive supportive care until they are able to move back into the
community or into residential care
1|Page
,continuing care
- services are for people who are disabled, who were never functionally independent, or
who suffer from a terminal disease
- available within institutional settings, communities, or the home
nursing centers
- provides 24 hour intermediate and custodial care
- offers skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and long-term care
- residents receive a planned, systematic, and inter-professional approach to care to
help them reach and maintain their highest level of function
resident assessment instrument
- care plan format in nursing centers
- includes the minimum data set, the care area assessment process, and utilization
guidelines
minimum data set
- core set of screening, clinical, and functional status elements that forms the
foundation of the comprehensive assessment of all residents in long-term care facilities
certified to participate in Medicare or Medicaid
- initial overview of the resident's health care needs
- preliminary assessment to identify the resident's potential problems, strengths, and
preferences
- includes resident's background, cognitive sight and hearing patterns, physical
functioning, urinary continence, health conditions, mood patterns, activity patterns,
nutritional status, skin condition, medication use, and treatments
care area assessment process
- designed to assist the assessor to systematically interpret the information recorded on
the MDS
- trigger care areas that form a link to decisions about care planning
2|Page
,- enable facilities to identify and use tools that are grounded in current clinical
standards of practice
assisted living
- offers an attractive long-term care setting with an environment more like home and
greater resident autonomy
- provides independence, security, and privacy at the same time and promotes physical
and psychosocial health
respite care
- service that offers short-term relief by providing a new environment or time to relax for
family caregivers who support the ill, disabled, or frail older adult
adult day care centers
- provide a variety of health and social services to specific patient populations who live
alone or with family in the community
- services offered during the day allow families to maintain their lifestyles
- patients are typically physically frail, cognitively impaired, or require some supervision
but not continuous care
palliative care
- holistic, patient- and family-centered care approach with the goal of improving the
quality of life of patients and families who are experiencing problems related to life-
threatening illness
- delivered through the continuum of illness
- focuses on early identification and treatment; physical, psychosocial, and spiritual
problems; relief of pain and suffering; continuity of care; and helping patients and
families make informed decisions
hospice
- system of family-centered care that allows patients to live with comfort,
independence, and dignity while easing the pain of terminal illness
- patients are in the terminal phase of illness, and the patient, family caregiver, and
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, health care provider agree that no further treatment will reverse the disease process
- focus is supportive care
inpatient prospective payment system
- system of payment for the operating costs of acute-care hospital inpatient stays under
Medicare Part A based on prospectively expressed in the Social Security Act
diagnosis related group
- classification system used to determine payments from Medicare by assigning a
standard flat rate to major diagnostic categories
- flat rate is paid to hospitals regardless of the full cost of the services provided
hospital value based purchasing
- program that links a portion of hospital's medicare payments for inpatient acute care
to their performance in important quality measures
Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
- program that reduces medicare payments to hospitals with excess patient
readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge designed to encourage patient safety
and care quality
bundled payments for care improvement
- focuses on improving care for specific conditions by bundling payments for services
- encourages doctors and hospitals to better coordinate care during hospitalization and
after discharge
hospital acquired condition reduction
- program that intends to encourage hospitals to improve health care quality and patient
safety
- higher incidences of HACs receive reduced funding
patient-centered care
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