Mrs K
Mrs. K is being seen in primary care for a routine physical and shares these symptoms that indicate Mrs K may have an infection.
What are hot flashes, shaking chills, and frontal headache?
This term describes taking many medications. For Mr. F, the risk is higher because he has a primary care provider, cardiologist and endocrinologist managing his care.
What is polypharmacy?
This nursing specialty includes outpatient clinics, procedure centers, and telephone or virtual encounters, with care continuing between visits.
What is ambulatory care nursing?
This technique asks patients to explain the plan in their own words to check how clearly the nurse explained it.
What is teach back?
Mrs. K likely blamed her hot flashes and headaches on this normal life stage, which delayed her reporting signs of infection.
What is menopause?
These system issues contributed to Mr. F's low sodium.
What is poor communication between providers and missing EHR documentation
These two complementary approaches build patient understanding and explore priorities, readiness, and barriers to behavior change.
What are patient education and health coaching?
These are 3 of 4 safety details that need to be confirmed at the start of a telehealth visits.
What are patient identity, privacy, call back number and location?
Nurses use this communication strategy to verify clear explanations of the care plan by asking the adolescent to state instructions in their own words.
Using this education method, the patient explains instructions in her own words to confirm she knows which warning signs to report while on high-risk medications.
This key safety practice will help prevent medication errors, missed doses, and drug drug interactions.
This type of ambulatory nurse uses registries to identify patients overdue for screening and organizes outreach.
What is population health nursing?
You are completing a post hospital follow up phone call and note that the patient is confused about the medications they are supposed to take and they have not scheduled their follow up visit. Name two nursing actions to close these gaps
What is reconcile the medication list, educate about new medications and/or medications that have been discontinued, clarify any barriers that may be impacting scheduling a follow up appointment.
As adolescents develop skills for adult healthcare, care management shifts from parent-controlled care to independent management through this middle stage of care and decision making.
What is shared management?
These two things may have contributed to Mrs K not recognizing her concering symptoms.
What is the teach back method?
What is a care coordinator?
This role guides complex specialty care treatment.
What is the care navigator role?
These are two types of ambulatory care nurse billing.
What is chronic care management (CCM) and transitional care management (TCM)?
To build trust while discussing sensitive topics like mental health or risk behaviors, nurses must explain these boundaries to adolescents before private discussions begin?