NURS 233: MODULE 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ELABORATIONS BASED ON FINAL EXAMS!!
What are the four concepts essential to nursing care of patients across settings?
answers: - community based nursing
- continuity of care
- collaborative practice
- care coordination
Community based care:
answers: is defined as health care provided to people who live within a defined
area
Is community based care focused on the individual or the population as a whole?
What is it designed for?
answers: the individual, to meet the needs of people through these transitions of
health care settings
Roles of the Nurse in community-based care
answers: - provide continutity of care when patient moves from one level of care
to another or from one setting to another
- provide interventions to promote health
- manage acute or chronic illness
- promote self care
Qualities of the community based nurse
, answers: - knowledgable and skilled: need to be knowledgable in assessments,
body mechanics, nursing diagnosis, infection control. Must be adaptive to
environments.
- independent in making decisions: work solo
- Willing to remain accountable: no other nurse coming to relieve you at shift
change
Roles of the community based nurse
answers: - patient advocate: supporting patient rights
- coordinator of services: primary source of communication among team. need to
be knowledgable about community services to promote patient health.
- patient/family educator: teach patients and family about all aspects of care
Types of Home Health care agencies (4)
answers: 1. official or public agencies
2. voluntary or private not for profit agencies
3. private, proprietary agencies
4. institution based agencies
QSEN defines teamwork as:
answers: being able to function effectively to provide high quality care by
fostering communication, having mutual respect, and shared decision making
WHO defines interprofessional collaboration and establishes the following goal:
answers: to deliberately work together to build a safer and better patient centered
and community/population oriented U.S. healthcare system
Community based nurses work for a
, answers: home health care agency
List the four concepts essential to nursing care of patient's across settings
answers: 1. community based nursing care
2. continuity of care
3. collaborative practice
4. care coordination
Goal of collaborative practice:
answers: to deliberately work together to build a safer and better patient centered
and community/population oriented U.S. health care system
Care Transition is:
answers: a continuous process in which a patient's care shifts from being provided
in one setting of care to another. Requires intentional coordination.
Care coordination is the:
answers: central responsibility of all health care professionals, especially nurses
Describe the aim of care coordination (3)
answers: - link patients with resources in the community to enhance their
wellbeing
- improve information exchange
- reduce fragmentation and duplication of services
Describe the role of the patient navigator
ELABORATIONS BASED ON FINAL EXAMS!!
What are the four concepts essential to nursing care of patients across settings?
answers: - community based nursing
- continuity of care
- collaborative practice
- care coordination
Community based care:
answers: is defined as health care provided to people who live within a defined
area
Is community based care focused on the individual or the population as a whole?
What is it designed for?
answers: the individual, to meet the needs of people through these transitions of
health care settings
Roles of the Nurse in community-based care
answers: - provide continutity of care when patient moves from one level of care
to another or from one setting to another
- provide interventions to promote health
- manage acute or chronic illness
- promote self care
Qualities of the community based nurse
, answers: - knowledgable and skilled: need to be knowledgable in assessments,
body mechanics, nursing diagnosis, infection control. Must be adaptive to
environments.
- independent in making decisions: work solo
- Willing to remain accountable: no other nurse coming to relieve you at shift
change
Roles of the community based nurse
answers: - patient advocate: supporting patient rights
- coordinator of services: primary source of communication among team. need to
be knowledgable about community services to promote patient health.
- patient/family educator: teach patients and family about all aspects of care
Types of Home Health care agencies (4)
answers: 1. official or public agencies
2. voluntary or private not for profit agencies
3. private, proprietary agencies
4. institution based agencies
QSEN defines teamwork as:
answers: being able to function effectively to provide high quality care by
fostering communication, having mutual respect, and shared decision making
WHO defines interprofessional collaboration and establishes the following goal:
answers: to deliberately work together to build a safer and better patient centered
and community/population oriented U.S. healthcare system
Community based nurses work for a
, answers: home health care agency
List the four concepts essential to nursing care of patient's across settings
answers: 1. community based nursing care
2. continuity of care
3. collaborative practice
4. care coordination
Goal of collaborative practice:
answers: to deliberately work together to build a safer and better patient centered
and community/population oriented U.S. health care system
Care Transition is:
answers: a continuous process in which a patient's care shifts from being provided
in one setting of care to another. Requires intentional coordination.
Care coordination is the:
answers: central responsibility of all health care professionals, especially nurses
Describe the aim of care coordination (3)
answers: - link patients with resources in the community to enhance their
wellbeing
- improve information exchange
- reduce fragmentation and duplication of services
Describe the role of the patient navigator
