ATI Custom Nurs 146 Gero Proctored Exam 2 W123-hernandez Practice Questions

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• Assist with obtaining informed consent from the client.
• Refer to the client's advance directive for a name.
• Determine the client's inability to make reasonable decisions.
• Use the oral trail-making test to measure cognitive function.

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• Transportation can be a critical factor in nutritional insufficiency in older adults.
• Soul food is a concern primarily for the African-American culture.
• No government programs promote congregate dining among older adults.
• The older person should be encouraged to practice strict controls on cholesterol intake to ensure protection against heart disease

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• Because a conservatorship is the least restrictive alternative, a court hearing is not required
• The most legally restricting way individuals and property can be handled are through conservatorships and guardianships.
• A conservatorship entails control over property, whereas a guardianship entails control over the person.
• Conservators cannot be members of the conservative's (client's) family

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• Comprehensive assessment
• Assessing for atypical presentation of Illness
• Complete blood count
• Differentiating delirium, dementia, and depression

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• Pointing to a grimacing face or crying
• Staring off into space
• Aggression
• Agitation
• Increased confusion
• Decreased passivity

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• Participants in Pace programs must be able to perform their own ADLs Independently.
• Participants in Pace programs must have been residents in a nursing home prior to enrollment in the Pace program.
• Participants in Pace programs must be eligible for either Medicare or Medicaid.
• Pace programs only provide service to individuals who are age 55 and over.
• Pace programs provide services to individuals who meet the criteria for nursing home admission

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• Facilitates remote physical assessment and monitoring of chronic conditions
• Decreases costs by replacing the role of the nurse with technology
• Reimbursed by all health care insurances
• Promotes self management of illness in rural and underserved areas
• Decreases costs by reducing hospital readmissions

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• It covers the costs of outpatient services.
• It must be purchased and is a subsidized medical policy
• It covers the costs of speech therapy.
• It covers medication costs

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• Develop a seating chart for the main dining room based on the unit to facilitate a more organized and efficient meal delivery
• Provide nutritious food according to the residents' expressed food preferences.
• Replace the fluorescent lighting with candles at every table to create a cozy, restaurant-like atmosphere.
• Distribute "med-pass nutritional supplements.

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• Sub-acute care is more intensive than traditional nursing home care
• Sub-acute care and nursing home care are identical
• Sub-acute care is reimbursed by either Medicaid on private pay
• Professional nursing staff levels are the same as those in traditional nursing home settings

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• "As the health care proxy, you are the one who makes the decisions. Let's call your mones doctor.
• "I understand why you are so upset. I don't think she is doing the right thing either. Let us think together how we can change her mind
• You will need to go to court and be declared a guardian"
• "Health care proxies only come into play when the individual can no longer make their own decisions. Your mother is able to make her own decisions. I suggest you talk with her."

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• Functional status
• Medical history
• Financial status
• Occupational history
• Physical status
• Environment