NCLEX RN TEST BANK – CHAPTER 1 THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM |2024/2025 EXAM WITH WELL DETIALED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+ (BRANDNEW!

ANS: 1 Day care centers provide supervision, safety, nutritious meals, and socialization while the caregiving family works. - ANSWER-1. An 89-year-old man, recently discharged from a rehabilitation hospital because of his inability to concentrate and frequent memory lapses, cannot be left alone while his family works because of safety concerns. What options can the discharge planning team suggest that will give the greatest quality of life to the patient? 1. Placement in a day care center from 8 AM to 5 PM daily 2. Placement in a long-term psychiatric facility 3. Placement in a high-security nursing home 4. Admission to a general hospital for evaluation ANS: 3 Part A pays skilled care facilities; Part B pays for physician's services. The previous insurance is no longer available because of the patient's age. The family or patient is not responsible, because Part B is in effect. - ANSWER-2. A 66-year-old hospitalized patient is anxious about how the physician will be paid now that the patient is on Medicare Part A and Part B, instead of his previous privately funded insurance plan. The nurse explains that the physician will be paid by: 1. the previously private funded insurance. 2. Medicare Part A. 3. Medicare Part B. 4. the patient or his family