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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 and has made or authorized a plan 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 high-technology interventions (the provisions of intravennous 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 disablity? - ✅✅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 multidiscipliary rehabilitation team, the ____ is a care planner, teacher,
caregiver, counselor, coordinator and advocate. - ✅✅Nurse
_____ _____ workers must consider the way a disabled individual funciton within the family and the
patient and family should be involved from the outset in determining the plan of care - ✅✅Health
care
______ in activites of daily living is the best indicator of who will need nursing home placement. -
✅✅Dependence
What residential care exists in these four levels:
1. domicilary care
2. sheltered housing
3. intermediate care
4. skilled care - ✅✅Modern long-term
Care delivered in ____-____ _____ residential facility is based on three principles:1. promontion 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 is the cornerstone of the healing process. To support and maintain life or fight disease, the body
must be supplied with the proper nutrients? - ✅✅Nutrition
What process involves enzymes help break down food particles to their simplest form so that the
nutrients can be absorbed by the body? - ✅✅Digestive