Fill This Form To Receive Instant Help
Fill This Form To Receive Instant Help
Homework answers / question archive / 1) Visit a physician’s clinic talk to a nurse about his or her duties and responsibilities
1) Visit a physician’s clinic talk to a nurse about his or her duties and responsibilities. What are the types and ages of the clients who visit? What disorders are most commonly seen? What inservice education or special training did the nurse need to work there? What are the differences between this type of nursing and nursing in a hospital or nursing home?
2) Which measure, if instituted by the nurse, would help to ensure safety during home visits?
a. Avoid wearing a name tag.
b. Be alert to the surroundings.
c. Walk in a slow, relaxed, unhurried manner.
d. Wear clothes that are casual in appearance.
3) A role of the LPN/LVN in home care is to:
a. Assist clients in learning appropriate self-care techniques
b. Assist physicians in surgery
c. Complete complicated procedures
d. Complete initial client assessment and evaluation
4) Which of the following is an advantage of home care?
a. Clients are more comfortable in their own home.
b. Cost is more expensive than nursing-home care.
c. Third-party payors will not pay for extended hospital care.
d. There is no risk of infection when in the home setting.
5) A client is incontinent of urine and has voluntarily decreased oral intake in an effort to prevent incontinent episodes. Which action is a first priority for the nurse?
a. Instruct client to increase fluids to prevent dehydration.
b. Manually remove impacted feces, to increase urine flow.
c. Offer to assist the client to the bathroom at least every 6 hours.
d. Teach the client how to perform a manual evacuation procedure, such as self-catheterization.
6) Which of the following is an example of instrumental activities of daily living?
a. Ambulating to the bathroom
b. Food preparation for a meal
c. Getting dressed in the morning
d. Showering without assistance
7) A client is leaving the acute-care facility and asks what is meant by rehabilitation. Which of the following statements would be appropriate for the nurse? “Rehabilitation means:
a. actively seeking the cause of the client’s current condition.”
b. motivating the client to change past behavior patterns.”
c. preventing the client from having similar problems in the future.”
d. restoring a person to his or her former abilities as much as possible.”
8) Borrow a wheelchair and go to several public buildings in your area. What architectural barriers did you encounter? How did other people react to you? Discuss your findings and your personal feelings with your classmates
9) A) A young married woman who has paraplegia comes to you with questions about her sexuality and sexual activity. Anticipate what questions she might ask. Formulate possible answers
B) Rehabilitation team members assist clients in performing strengthening exercises to prevent falls or other injuries and to provide mobility.
10) Which of the following describes a skilled nursing facility?
a. Provides 24-hour care with a licensed nurse on duty
b. Provides basic care with a licensed nurse on call
c. Provides basic nursing care and families are required to bring in meals
d. Provides housing and very little support care
11) Interview a nursing home client and family about their experience of transfer or handover from the hospital to the nursing home. Was the transition smooth? Were there concerns? What forms or paperwork accompanied the client to the nursing home? How much input did the client/family have? How could the communication between the two facilities have been improved?
12) Which of the following indicate that a client is experiencing delirium tremens?
a. Anxiety
b. Hallucinations
c. Internal tremors
d. Restlessness
