Chapter 1 |77 Review Questions With
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Team nursing - ✔ ✔ _____ _____ is a nursing care pattern in which a team of nursing staff is led by
an RN who decides the amount and kind of care each person needs.
Team nursing - ✔ ✔ When a team leader delegates the care of certain persons to other nurses, the
nursing care pattern is called
terminal illness - ✔ ✔ An illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover is a _____
_____.
The amount paid for services is determined before giving care - ✔ ✔ In a prospective payment
system (PPS)
The person - ✔ ✔ When health care agencies offer services, the focus of care is always
Usually is given 60 days to correct it - ✔ ✔ If a deficiency is found during a survey of a health care
agency, the agency
your role - ✔ ✔ To protect yourself and others, you should know the limits of _____ _____ in your
state and agency.
4 years - ✔ ✔ A registered nurse who completes a university program will be in school for
chronic illness - ✔ ✔ When an illness or injury is on-going, is slow or gradual in onset, and has no
known cure, it is a _____ _____.
Cleric - ✔ ✔ assists persons with their spiritual needs
dependable
teamwork - ✔ ✔ When you offer to help team members, it shows that you are _____ and value
_____.
Detection and treatment of disease - ✔ ✔ Diagnostic tests, physical exams, surgery, emergency care,
and drugs are used in
Dietician - ✔ ✔ Assesses and plans for nutritional needs
DON - ✔ ✔ director of nursing
, employees
you will care for
yourself - ✔ ✔ When you carefully plan career choices, it shows respect for _____, those _____
_____ _____ _____, and _____.
functional nursing - ✔ ✔ When a nursing care pattern focuses on tasks and jobs, and each nursing
team member has certain tasks and jobs to do, it is called _____ _____.
health team - ✔ ✔ The many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's
total care are called _____ _____.
Home care agency - ✔ ✔ Provides care to persons at home.
Hospice - ✔ ✔ _____ is a health care agency or program for persons who are dying.
Hospice - ✔ ✔ Serves people who are dying.
Hospital - ✔ ✔ Serves people of all ages for acute, chronic, or terminal illnesses.
A hospital - ✔ ✔ A person with an acute illness will probably be treated in
acute illness - ✔ ✔ A sudden illness from which the person is expected to recover is an _____ _____.
Agencies that join together as 1 provider of care - ✔ ✔ Health care systems
An assisted living facility - ✔ ✔ A person may have an apartment and receive help with personal care
when living in
An RN with a bachelor's or master's degree (DON) - ✔ ✔ The person responsible for nursing service
is
Answer the questions honestly and completely - ✔ ✔ When you are asked questions by a surveyor,
you should
Assesses, makes nursing diagnoses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care - ✔ ✔ An RN
Assisted living residence - ✔ ✔ Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and
social activities in a home-like setting to persons needing help with daily activities.
assisted living residence (ALR) - ✔ ✔ An _____ _____ _____ provides housing, personal care, support
services, health care, and social activities in a home-like setting to persons needing help with daily
activities.
Assists RNs in caring for acutely ill persons and with complex procedures - ✔ ✔ An LPN/LVN