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Home health care covers occasional visits from who? - ANS Registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, community-based professionals (like hospice). **Does NOT cover visits from attending physicians. Programs that are provided to people who are too poor to qualify for Medicaid. - ANS State-only Medicaid programs LTC provision that provides a guarantee that certain policy benefits will remain available even if the insured stops paying premiums. (Offers option of a paid-up poli...

Medicare supplement/LTC NC Medicare - ANS A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older Medicare is run by - ANS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the department of health and human services Medicare parts A & B are - ANS Referred to as original Medicare Medicare Part A(Inpatient) is funded - ANS By the hospital insurance portion of the FICA payroll tax collected from workers and employers. Also by the premiums...

What is Medicare? - ANS Government health insurance program for people over 65 or younger people who may qualify. Who under 65 may qualify for Medicare? - ANS Individuals who have disabilities such as permanent kidney failure or ALS Medicare part A covers what? - ANS Hospital Which part of Medicare covers medical insurance? - ANS Part B Which part of Medicare is known as Medicare Advantage? - ANS Part C What criteria must be met to qualify for enrollm...

North Carolina Medicare Supplement & Long-term Care Z sells a MSP to a sick 72-year-old person, that he knows already has a Medicare supplement. The sale is - ANS Not allowed because a person cant have multiple MSPs Which of the following does not qualify for Medicare under 65 years old? - ANS Z who has pancreatic cancer All of the following are NOT correct regarding Medicare Advantage HMO and PPO plans EXCEPT: - ANS Medicare Advantage PPOs do NOT use a gatekeepe...

Medicare - ANS Health insurance for those over age 65, people under 65 with certain disabilities & those with ESRD (end stage renal disease - permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or kidney transplant) CMS - ANS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administers the Medicare program. Social Security Administration handles most of the enrollment & plays a role in claims appeal process. MAC - ANS Medicare Administrative Contractor - company contracted to administe...

North Carolina Medicare Supplement and Long-Term Care An individual who is not eligible for premium-free Medicare Part A coverage may apply for coverage during which of the following enrollment periods? A. All of the above B. Initial enrollment period C. General enrollment period D. Special enrollment period - ANS A. All of the above Medicare makes what payment for services in which another payer may be responsible: A. Conditional payment B. Interim payment C. Tran...

Critical Care Exam 1 Latest l Assessments - ANS DO YOUR OWN Every 4 hours in CC units w/ full neuro ALOC q1h Pain q2h w/ VS * VS q1h if on vasoactive, antidysrhythmic or inotrope medications Tele @ all times * Document rhythm @ time of assessment * Print & analyze strip qshift Manual BP qshift, if Art line present RASS/CAM ICU assess qshift * RASS more frequent if patient sedated NG/OG check q4h w/ residuals Rapid Response - ANS Sudden deteriorati...

Which of the following nursing diagnoses would be appropriate for a client with heart failure? Select all that apply. A Ineffective tissue perfusion related to decreased peripheral blood flow secondary to decreased cardiac output. B Activity intolerance related to increased cardiac output. C Decreased cardiac output related to structural and functional changes. D Impaired gas exchange related to decreased sympathetic nervous system activity. - ANS A, D HF is a result of structural...

Designed for efficient, lifesaving interventions The critical care unit is designed to save lives. Patients and families often have little advance preparation for the environment: Stress, Anxiety **The technology and environment contribute to the stress of the patient and family members. - ANS Critical Care Environment Light, Noise Many aspects of the critical care environment contribute to sensory overload; **noise is the primary factor.** Sensory deprivation can also occur despi...

Certification in critical care nursing by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses indicates that a nurse: earned a master's degree in the field of providing advanced critical care nursing. an advanced practice nurse in the care of acutely ill patients. practice independently to provide symptom management for the critically ill. practiced in critical care and successfully completed a test of critical care knowledge. - ANS 4. has practiced in critical care and successf...

When administering nitroglycerin, which possible outcome does the nurse need to monitor the patient for? A. Peripheral vasoconstriction with tissue necrosis B. Increased afterload C. Peripheral vasodilation D. Increased preload - ANS C. peripheral vasodilation A patient is admitted to the ICU with a pulmonary artery (PA) catheter in the left internal jugular. During the nurse's shift, the PA pressure increases. What additional priority assessment does the nurse need to perform ne...

P wave - ANS Depolarization of the atria PR interval - ANS -Normal is 0.12 to 0.2 seconds - onset of atrial depolarization until onset of ventricular polarization QRS complex - ANS -Normal is 0.06 to 0.11 seconds -Ventricular depolarization -systole T wave - ANS -appears after QRS complex - Ventricular repolarization -Spiked T-wave occurs with hyperkalemia U wave - ANS - repolarization of the purkinje fibers - seen in patients with hypokalemia S...

You have just received change of shift report. Which patient should you assess first? a. 62 year-old man who is scheduled for a cardiac cath, and is ready to be transported now b. 58 year-old woman with COPD with an O2 saturation of 92% on 2 liters of O2, who is scheduled to be discharged home on O2 c. 36 year-old man admitted with an exacerbation of asthma with RR 36 at rest, and whose wheezing has diminished d. 72 year-old woman with history of asthma with HR 90 and is due for her beta-blo...

Which of the following professional organizations best supports critical care nursing practice? a. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses b. American Heart Association c. American Nurses Association d. Society of Critical Care Medicine - ANS a. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses A nurse has been working as a staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit for 2 years and is interested in certification. Which credential would be most applicable for the nurse to seek? ...

plants evolved from... - ANS green algae what pigment does green algae have? - ANS chlorophyll a & b non-vascular plants lack... - ANS xylem & phloem vascular tissue= - ANS tissue that moves things types of vascular tissue in plants= - ANS xylem and phloem give an example of a non-vascular plant - ANS moss which type of plant makes up 93% of all plants - ANS vascular plants _________ are a seedless vascular plant - ANS ferns ...

Clues from geology and paleontology suggest that simple cells or their precursors arose about how long ago? - ANS 4 Billion Years Which theory explains the origin of chloroplasts and mitochondria? - ANS Endosymbiotic Theory DNA that is separate and apart from the chromosome in a prokaryote is a(n) - ANS Plasmid The primary component making up the cell walls of bacteria is - ANS Peptidoglycan Prokaryotes lack which feature? - ANS Nucleus All protists - ANS ...

Phylogeny - ANS The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species phylogenic tree/cladogram - ANS - to reconstruct the evolutionary history of relationships between species a diagram that depicts the lines of evolutionary descent of different species, organisms, or genes from a common ancestor. A tree through time - ANS A complete tree implies all of the events (evolution: common ancestors, nodes, branches, speciation, relationships) branching point - ...

Domains - ANS Bacteria Archaea Eukarya how many bacteria species are in your GI tract - ANS 400 how many bacteria species are in your mouth - ANS 500 how many bacteria species are in 1 drop of seawater - ANS 10,000-100,000 oldest fossils of bacteria were when - ANS 3.4 billion years ago what does ubiquitous mean? - ANS they're everywhere Fact about bacteria: - ANS Most bacteria are not pathogenic (disease causing) Use anaerobic r...

trophic - ANS feeding symbiosis - ANS one species lives in or on another species, affect can be positive or negative predation - ANS one species' individual kills and eats another species' individual carnivory - ANS predator and prey are both animals herbivory - ANS predator is an animal and the prey is a plant parasitism - ANS a parasite lives in or on its host feeding off certain tissues without necesarily killing them competition - ANS ...

A new graduate plans on moving into nursing administration. What steps should the graduate take to ensure this goal is reached? SATA 1. Further professional education 2. Meet the specific requirements for the entry-level job position 3. Seek new experiences 4. Volunteer to work in committees 5. Find a mentor - ANS 1. Further professional education 3. Seek new experiences 4. Volunteer to work in committees 5. Find a mentor A nursing student who is graduating in a few weeks is pre...