Using Insurance
What is an eligibility requirement for an individual to qualify for Medicare services?
What is Medicare?
Can make detailed patient assessments or clinical judgments, their observations, reporting, documentation, teaching, and technical care capabilities are important to home care.
What is an LPN? pg. 1165
This care can be complex and can also exhaust family caregivers. It is naïve to presume that the nurse can provide all the information the family will need to manage this situation.
What is palliative Care?
A unit that provides physical rehabilitation, stroke rehabilitation, surgical rehabilitation, or wound care.
What is a Subacute care unit? pg.1180
Which long-term care facility for an 80-year-old widow in good health who no longer drives, enjoys playing card games, can ambulate with a walker, and is oriented would be best for this patient?
What is an Assisted Living Center? pg. 1179
Provides quality care as it relates to long-term care.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act pg. 1182
An LPN that has the skills to be self-motivated, expert organizational skills, effective communication skills, and independence in decision making?
What is a home health nurse?
This is a term used when you tell your employer, school, friends, and family members about your disability/condition.
What is disclosure?
Providing of comfort to the person who is approaching death. While hospice will assist with funeral planning as needed, it is not the focus of care.
What is Hospice Care?
A sense of psychological well-being, confidence, and self-esteem.
What is mental health?
Provides techniques to increase independence, and analysis activities as they relate to patients' skin, their environments, their families, and their routines. They also help with the fabrication and fitting of orthotic or self-help devices.
What is an occupational therapist? Pg. 1166
What is a facility found in a long-term facility that supplies the patients with?
What is 24-hour skilled nursing care? Pg. 1176-1182
A treatment that focuses on prolonging life
What is Curative treatment? pg. 1206
The long term care facility becomes a home for the adult.
What is Residential care? pg. 1181
A services that is community based to meet the needs of functionally or cognitively impaired patients through supervised health care, social and recreational activities
What is Adult Day Care? Pg. 1178
A care plan that includes education, counseling, payment source identification, and referrals
Who is Medical Social Services? pg. 1166
Who are healthcare professionals who work together to meet the needs of clients and to go over the care plan with the residents and family members?
What is an Interdisciplinary approach?
Primary caregivers need time to meet their own personal needs as well. This care allows time away from their day-to-day care responsibilities for the client.
What is Respite Care?
Your share of the costs of a health care service. You start paying this AFTER you've paid your plan's deductible.
What is coinsurance?
An Act that provides care for a person who has a physical or mental impairment, a person has a medical record of the impairment, or a person is limited in at least one major life activity.
What is the American Disability Act of 1990?
A facility setting that would help a patient get stronger before he can go home. Items can include things such as being able to make safe decisions while NOT supervised.
What is Rehabilitation Facility? pg. 1189
A person that can help provide therapy to increase independence with activities of daily living like combing their hair or brushing their teeth.
Who is an Occupational therapist? pg. 1166
An agency or facility that will be able to provide skilled nursing care for a patient 24-hours a day 7-days a week
What is a Long-term Care Facility? pg. 1180-81