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Home Health Nursing
Rehabilitation Nursing
Long Term Care
Care of the Older Adult
M/S Sensory Disorders
100
This system classifies patients by age, diagnoses, and surgical categories and is used to predict hospital resources and length of stay.
What are diagnoses related groups (DRG’s)
100
The nurse who assesses for cultural influences, values cultural diversity, and incorporates cultural knowledge in his practice is said to be ____________ _____________.
What is culturally competent?
100
This is focused on the provision of comfort to the person who is approaching death.
What is hospice care?
100
Excessive urination at night due to decreased bladder capacity.
What is nocturia?
100
This is commonly called pinkeye
What is Conjunctivitis
200
The first visiting nurse service in the United States was formed in this city
What is Philadelphia?
200
If the patient has an injury of the cervical spinal cord at C2 to C7 and is now paraplegic, the patient lost control of these organs:
What is bowel and bladder?
200
Preventing, relieving, reducing, or soothing symptoms of disease or disorders without affecting a cure. Extends the principles of hospice care to broader populations that could benefit from comfort care earlier in their illness or disease process.
What is palliative care?
200
This has little influence on cognition.
What is Aging?
200
This treatment uses a small intense beam of light into a small spot on the retina
What is Photocoagulation?
300
An RN must perform an initial evaluation and admission visit in this time frame.
What is 24 to 48 hours?
300
The primary focus of the rehabilitation nurse
What is increasing independence
300
A comprehensive tool that includes the minimum data set, resident assessment protocols, and guidelines for functional assessment of the resident; must be signed by the RN and contain the RAPs and MDS.
What is resident assessment instrument (RAI)?
300
Weakness of the legs accompanied by cramp like pain in the calves caused by poor circulation of the blood to the leg muscles. (The patient should rest to alleviate discomfort.)
What is claudication?
300
This is a method of distinguishing conductive from sensorineural hearing loss
What is Rinne test?
400
This member of the care team will arrange for a mix of home care, therapy services, counseling, supplies, and equipment.
What is a case manager?
400
This is the primary difference between rehabilitation of children and rehabilitation of adults.
What is the developmental potential of the child?
400
Organization that defines requirements for the quality of care given to residents of long-term care facilities.
What is OBRA?
400
The first major legislation to provide financial security for older adults.
What is Social Security Act of 1935
400
This is performed to relieve pressure and release exudate from the middle ear
What is Myringotomy?
500
A federally funded national health insurance for certain people older than 65.
What is Medicare?
500
In a moderate brain injury, what is the time frame for the period of unconsciousness
What is 1 to 24 hours.
500
A measure of the optimum energy that endows a person with the power to cope successfully with the full range of challenges encountered in the real world.
What is quality of life?
500
Abnormal state of motor and psychic hypoactivity
What is akinesia?
500
A procedure in which the first corneal flap is folded back, then a laser removes some of the internal layers
What is Lasik?