Seniors
This service is a type of temporary care that provides relief for primary caregivers of children with special needs or dependent adults. It can reduce rates of abuse in these populations.
What is respite care?
The U.S. Census Bureau (2014) definition of family has remained basically unchanged since 1930, but community health nurses define family in this way.
What is a family is who they say they are?
These types of burns, when present, necessitate further assessment by the nurse for the presence of possible abuse.
What are immersion burns, burns in the shape of objects, cigar/cigarette burns, or rope burns?
Assume a person with a disability is competent in the activity you see them engaging in.
Do.
This is the number one cause of fractures, hospital admissions for trauma, loss of independence, and injury deaths and each year, 2.8 million older adults are treated for this in emergency departments.
What is falls?
A community health nurse assists a family in determining whether they are eligible for healthcare and food assistance from the state. This intervention would be categorized as this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
Fractures that have these characteristics are suspicious for having been the result of violence.
Various stages of healing, multiple fractures, spiral fractures, and fractures that do not match what you would expect based on the client/family explanation.
Offer to pray for healing of a disability.
Don't.
The National Council on Aging suggests this as one of primary ways to prevent falls in older adults.
What is improve and maintain strength and balance through appropriate physical activity? Other activities include assessment of medication and household hazards, and correction of vision and hearing loss.
This intervention creates a detailed of a family's structure with relationships and personal characteristics noted. It can be an important part of the family interview and is also a primary prevention activity.
What is a genogram?
This group is twice as likely to be the victim of a violent crime, four times as likely if it's related to cognition or mental health.
Women with a disability.
Talk to the child with a disability, not their parent or the person they are with.
Do.
Better prevention and early-detection efforts have helped many older adults survive this diagnosis, but it's still the number two cause of death for older Americans.
What is cancer?
Characteristics include strong communication, making family a priority, support and respect for one another, and having flexible roles.
What is a healthy family?
This age group is 3x more likely to be a victim of intimate partner violence.
What is age 16-24?
Guide a blind person by keeping your arm behind their back.
Don't (unless asked specifically).
This concern for older adults is the 'M' in the DETERMINE nutrition assessment mnemonic, but is also of concern in terms of care management and potential adverse events.
What is "multiple medications," or polypharmacy?
These are four reasons suggested by Friedman and colleagues why it is important for nurses to work with families.
Most intimate partner violence homicides occur during this part of the relationship.
What is after the relationship is terminated?
Grab wheelchair handles to help guide someone through a narrow doorway.
Don't (unless asked).