Skilled vs. Unskilled
Safety
Homecare or Hospice
Boundaries and Focus
Nursing Roles
100
Changing an indwelling urinary catheter
What is skilled
100
The second level of Maslow's hierarch of human needs.
What is safety?
100
Goal is to promote quality of life
What is Hospice?
100
The nurse briefly answers a question about her children and then asks the patient about his/her children
What is putting the "spotlight" on the patient?
100
Teach about new medications
What is the nurse educator role?
200
Changing a dry dressing
What is unskilled
200
Familiarity of the neighborhood and astute awareness of surroundings
What is defense techniques for the home care nurse
200
Goal is to return patient to optimal functioning and health
What is home care?
200
The nurse considers what the current needs are and what was accomplished the last nursing visit.
What is determining the purpose of the visit?
200
The nurse passes out flyers in support of a mental health levy
What is advocating?
300
Assessing an abdominal wound.
What is skilled?
300
Assessment of lighting, electrical hazards, or infestations
What is safety assessment of the patient's environment
300
Expects documentation to demonstrate progress
What is Homecare?
300
Engage, learn, and follow-through with teaching
What are the choices of the patient?
300
The nurse identifies a need for physical therapy and makes a referral
What is care coordination/management?
400
Placing medications in a plastic container
What is unskilled
400
Assessment of muscle strength, orthostatic hypotension, disturbed sensory perception, ability to communicate
What is assessment of fall risk
400
RN, aide, physician, social worker, chaplain, PT, OT, RT, bereavement coordinator
What is a hospice Interdisciplinary team?
400
Anger, exhaustion, withdrawal
What are feelings that indicate boundaries have been crossed?
400
The nurse talks to the patient/family caregiver about services they have obtained from a home health aide
What is supervision?
500
Teaching the patient's family caregiver to navigate medicare
What is unskilled?
500
The goal of influencing patient safety in the home.
What is prevention of physical and emotional harm, freedom from pain, provision of a stable environment.
500
Covers medications, treatments, DME, supplies, multi-discipline visits
What is Hospice per diem reimbursement?
500
Defines nursing responsibilities
What is Scope of Practice?
500
The nurse brings to the attention of the agency that recent research demonstrates an agency practice is no longer considered effective.
What is quality improvement?
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