Home Health, Hospice and Case Management

What is the purpose of Hospice?

Why do home health nurses repeat education/instructions once the patient arrives home?

• Nurses in the hospital are not familiar with the patient's home

• You must follow the orders of the primary care provider

• Often instructions are not remembered in stressful acute care settings

• Key points may not have been covered in the hospital

What factors are important to consider to ensure a comfortable peaecful death/transition?

(a)  

Which type of home health agency is profit making?

• Official

• Voluntary

• Hospital based

• Proprietary

Choose the best order of visits for home health skilled nurse

• asthmatic

  enteral feeding

  stage IV drsg change

  newly diagnosed diabetic

• enteral feeding

  stage IV drsg change

  newly diagnosed diabetc

  asthmatic

• asthmatic

  newly diagnosed diabetic

  stage IV drsg change

  enteral feeding

• Stage IV drsg change

  enteral feeding

  asthmatic

  newly diagnosed diabetic

  enteral feeding

Which universal precaution in the home is most crucial?

• use of ppe

• sharps disposal

• handwashing

• reverse isolation

What is the goal of advocacy?

• Promote client's right and self-determination

• To obtain all of the resources needed by the client

• To champion for what is right

• Helping the patient understand the process of health care in the U.S.

What is the biggest difference between care management and case management?

What skills must a case manager have to be considered competent?

There are 5 of them

(a)  

What makes planning healthcare difficult in today's health care system?

• Family concerns and preferences

• use of search engines and social media

• Patient's having access to their medical charts

• Coordination of various providers, payors, and settings