NSG 360 Exam 4 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

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Nursing Homes - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Residential living centers
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offering nursing care primarily for elders on a 24H basis; first model of long-
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term care to evolve and remain the type of facility that houses the majority
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of individuals receiving long-term care
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Assisted Living - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Long-term care alternative for
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seniors who need more assistance than is available in a retirement center;
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designed for residents who require more day-to-day assistance than
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independent living |\




Elder Day Care: three types - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Concept that
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parallels numerous child care centers provided in US
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-Adult day social care provides social activities, meals, recreation, and some
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limited health-related services
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-Adult day health care offers more intensive health, therapeutic, and social
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services for individuals with severe medical problems and for those at risk of
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requiring nursing home care
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-Alzheimer's specific adult day care provides social and health services only
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to persons with Alzheimer's disease or related dementia
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Memory Care Communities - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Specialized
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treatment option for seniors diagnosed with early, middle, and late stages of
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Alzheimer's disease and dementia that provide a secure environment to
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, prevent elopement, while allowing health wandering; low staff-to-resident
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ratios; sensory based programming
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Issues in Long-Term Care Settings - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Falls/restraints; skin/wound care; nutrition and hydration; patient safety |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



issues; resident transfers; duty to assess, monitor, and communicate; end of
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life care and patient education; elder abuse
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Biggest distinctions between hospice and palliative care - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Patients can continue to receive disease-modifying treatment
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along with palliative care
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Is palliative care end of life care? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔NO; it is
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treating patient based on their needs, not their prognosis
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What should we do when a patient enters the health care system? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Begin their social, spiritual, and financial
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assessment



What does a patient choose with palliative care? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Comfort care over invasive aggressive medical treatments
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What are fundamental questions that need to be addressed in order to
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accelerate the improvement of end-of-life services? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔-What are we trying to accomplish? |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




-How will we know that a change is an improvement?
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