Practice Settings & Specialties
__________- day care centers offer social, recreational, and therapeutic activities to senior who are in need of supervision during the day.
What is Adult
The cost of providing home health care is _______ expensive than the cost of providing inpatient care.
What is less
_______________ is a modern, interactive, two-way video process that allows home care nurses to hold conversations with homebound clients to monitor clinical progress.
What is telehomecare
A ______________ is an outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads worldwide or at least across a large region.
What is pandemic
Since 1900, the percentage of the population older than ____ years has tripled and this growth is expected to continue.
What is 65
Nurses working in shelters for battered women function primarily as advocates, __________, health educators, and collaborators for the women and their children living in these facilities.
What is case managers
Clients who are homebound and under the care of a ___________ are eligible for home care services under medicare.
What is physician.
True or False
Wound care is a simple technique that focuses on dressing application.
What is false
In the United States, most newcomers are __________ who come here by choice.
What is immigrants
_____________ is an alternative therapy that incorporates the use of essential oils with diverse medicinal qualities.
What is aromatherapy
A nursing center is managed by ___________ in partnership with the community they serve, with the goal of bringing care directly to the diverse populations within the community.
What is nurses
All nurses working in the community, should be equipped to make _______ visits.
What is home.
_______________ pain is defined as pain that lasts less than 6 months.
What is acute
A nurse's role in ____ is to plead someone's cause or act on someone's behalf, with a focus on developing the individual's family's or community's capacity to plead its own cause or act on its own behalf.
What is advocacy
_____________ is defined as the technology of developing and producing medications tailored to specific genetic profiles.
What is Pharmacogenomics
Traditionally, disaster nursing has been provided by the _______________, using volunteers and nurses in paid positions
What is The American Red Cross.
All certified home health care agencies use the ________ and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) as the assessment tool for home care visits.
What is outcome
The hospice movement originated in the country of _______ in the late 1960's.
What is England
The ______________ is he United Nations agency for health.
What is World Health organization
The completion of the Human _________ Project in 2000 resulted in the mapping of the genetic code and will make treatments possible that were not even conceivable a decade ago.
What is genome
The number of nurse practitioners has ___________ in the last 2 decades.
What is increased
______________ care provides a temporary break for the caregiver and may occur when someone comes into the house to provide care or when a client temporarily visits a nursing home or other facility
What is respite
The need for home care services for the pediatric client has _______ dramatically within the last few years.
What is increased
Communties must prepare for disasters long before they strike and _______ should be at the fore front of these initiatives.
What is nurses.
Forces and situation affecting health care in the future __________ impact the role of the nurse.
What is will.