The care that is provided for children with health care needs along with their families in their places of residence.
What is Home Care?
100
Process by which families of children with chronic illness begin to perceive the child and their family life as normal.
What is Normalization?
100
Managing the illness; identifying, accessing, and coordinating resources; maintaining the integrity of the family unit; and maintaining self.
What is Primary Caregiver Responsibilities?
100
Crying, withdrawal, detachment, inability, to achieve developmental milestones.
What is an infant?
100
The unit that has the most intimate knowledge of the child's strengths, abilities and challenges of providing care.
What is the Family?
200
The program of palliative care services that provides physical, psychologic, social, and spiritual care for those with terminal illness.
What is Hospice Care?
200
A normal grief response associated with the loss of a healthy child that become cyclical.
What is chronic sorrow?
200
Nursing, rehabilitation therapies, pharmacy, dietitian, social work, and home medical equipment.
What are Aspects Of A Home Care Agency?
200
Inactivity, sadness, screaming, regressive behavior, delays in motor, speech, or social skills.
What is Toddler?
200
The type of care that allows the nurse and the family to work together and share outcomes in a deep and meaningful way.
What is Collaborative Caring?
300
Temporary relief for parents that provides a break from the responsibilities of caring for a special needs child on a daily basis.
What is Respite Care?
300
The concept which links children with special home health care needs to services and resources in a coordinated effort to child with optimum care.
What is Care Coordination?
300
Color-coded medication bottles, written schedules, pictures, symbols, and organized pillboxes.
What is Helpful Techniques In Home Medication Administration?
300
Expression of loneliness, boredom, isolation, depression, worry about school absences, altered physical growth.
What is a school aged child?
300
The guidelines of care that a home care nurse should discuss with the family at the first visit to help them maintain a sense of control over their child's care and personal lives.
What are House Rules?
400
The type of pediatric home care nursing in which a nurse receives a caseload of patients who have a variety of needs, all of whom she must visit each day.
What is Intermittent Skilled Nursing?
400
A multidisciplinary care plan that measures the quality of patient care outcomes derived from standardized patient outcomes.
What is a Care Path?
400
Communication, dialogue, active listening, awareness and acceptance of differences, and negotiation.
What are Characteristics of collaborative relationships?
400
Temper tantrums, refusal to comply with routines, refusal to eat or participate in selfcare.
What is a preschooler?
400
Laptop computers, tablets, Internet and email services, and telemedicine.
What are Technologic Trends In Home Care?
500
The type of pediatric home care nursing in which a nurse is assigned an individual patient and an 8- or 12-hour block of time is spent with the child.
What is Private-Duty Nursing?
500
The practice of evaluating patient outcomes and comparing them with the outcomes of other agencies as a way to determine the best practice.
What is Benchmarking?
500
Cost, liability and malpractice issues, ethics, confidentiality matters, nurse-patient relationships (high-tech, low touch) and patient care standards.
What are concerns with technology?
500
Dependency, uncooperativness, withdrawal, fear of loss of peer status or acceptance at school, altered image.
What is an adolescent?
500
A unique resource that promotes family strengths through shared expriences, emotional support, and empowerment for families of children with chronic health problems.