Hoover Final questions and answers

Hoover Final questions and anwers Hospitals - ANSWERS Provides comprehensive secondary and tertiary health care Primary health car - ANSWERS Focuses on improved health outcomes, by promoting regular health visits, health education, proper nutrition etc. Hospice - ANSWERS Allows patients to live with dignity, comfort, and independence Patient satisfaction - ANSWERS Responsibility of all health care providers, includes hourly rounding, nurse staffing patterns and communication Patient-centred care - ANSWERS defined by ION as care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values that guides all clinical decisions Health care disparities - ANSWERS difference in health care outcomes and dimensions of health care, including access, quality, and equity Medicaid - ANSWERS access to services for those with limited health care insurance and low or no income Medicare - ANSWERS Set payment for services for persons over 65 and /or with certain disabilities Minimum Data Set (MDS) - ANSWERS comprehensive assessment screening tool for Medicare or Medicaid certified nursing homes Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) - ANSWERS focus on building a better health care system to service the American population Tertiary health care - ANSWERS delays in treatment, decreased quality of life may result in this Safety - ANSWERS Registered Nurse competency HIPAA - ANSWERS Protects patients' information Preventive health care - ANSWERS screenings, wellness visits, immunizations Evidence-based practice - ANSWERS research to determine best practice Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - ANSWERS For payment each patient case is categorized into a diagnostic-related group for payment Which law requires that patients be made aware of their medical decisions rights? - ANSWERS SelfCare Determination Act Upon admission, when gathering a patient's sexual history, nurses should: A. focus only on physical factors that affect sexual functioning. B. discuss sexual concerns only if the patient raises questions or concerns. C. use emotionally laden terms when discussing sexual concepts. D. include questions related to sexual function. - ANSWERS D. include questions related to sexual function. You are caring for a patient who is depressed because the only child has gone away to college. The nurse will assess this type of depression as: A. actual loss. B. maturational loss. C. situational loss. D. perceived loss - ANSWERS B. maturational loss. As a first-year nursing student, you are assigned to care for a dying patient. To best prepare you for this assignment, you will want to: A. develop a personal understanding of your own feelings about grief and death B. control your emotions about death and dying. C. compare this experience to the death of a family member. D. complete a course on death and dying. - ANSWERS A. develop a personal understanding of your own feelings about grief and death You are a nurse working in the college student health centre. You receive a call that an athlete has just fallen and has been injured. You know that according to the general adaptation syndrome, the athlete will be exhibiting A. an increased appetite. B. an increased heart rate. C. a decrease in perspiration. D. a decrease in respiratory rate. - ANSWERS B. an increased heart rate. Facilitation of normal grieving - ANSWERS helpful coping mechanism is to talk about the deceased person's life A patient comes into the emergency department complaining of chest pain. When discussing possible reasons why the chest pain has occurred, the nurse learns that the patient is depressed because of the loss of a job. This type of crisis can be classified as A. maturational. B. posttraumatic C. sociocultural. D. situational. - ANSWERS D. situational. A nurse encounters a family who experienced the death of their adult child last year. The parents are talking about the upcoming anniversary of their child's death. The nurse spends time with them discussing their child's life and death. Which nursing principle does the nurse's action best demonstrate? A. Pain management technique B. Facilitation of normal grieving C. Palliative care D. Grief evaluation - ANSWERS B. Facilitation of normal grieving A patient has had two family members die during the past 2 days. Which coping strategy is most appropriate for the nurse to suggest to the patient? A. Avoiding talking about the deaths with frien