1. Your patient must have dialysis-what are your roles before, during and after?
2. Patient teaching UTI and renal transplant?

Should every American be entitled to health care? Free health care?

Why are so many Americans so sick?

What is our problem with health care? How and why did poorer countries figure it out and we can't?

Take a stand and make some claims.

Can you please select the right answer. I did not  get a good score on this quizz. Thank you

Question 6

5 / 5 pts

Define the following terms associated with healthcare insurance:

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• The maximum amount an insurer will pay for a certain service
• A health condition written into the health insurance policy indicating what is not covered by the policy
• The amount of expenses the patient must incur before the insurance company begins to pay for covered services
• A medical condition that had been diagnosed or treated usually within 6 months before the date a health insurance policy goes into effect
• A negotiated set amount that a patient pays for certain services

Copayment

            A negotiated set amount that a patient pays for certain services           

Deductible

            The amount of expenses the patient must incur before the insurance company begins to pay for covered services           

Exclusion/Upper Lifetime Limit

            A health condition written into the health insurance policy indicating what is not covered by the policy           

Pre-existing condition

            A medical condition that had been diagnosed or treated usually within 6 months before the date a health insurance policy goes into effect           

Fixed indeminity

            The maximum amount an insurer will pay for a certain service           

Question 7

1 / 1 pts

Medicare under the Affordable Care Act includes all of the following benefits EXCEPT:

Patients get more preventive services, for less

Patients can save money on brand-name drugs

Patients get more doctor support

Medicare coverage has some good benefits, but is not protected

Question 8

1 / 1 pts

How has the Affordable Care Act affected Medicaid?

Medicaid has restricted eligibility to adults with incomes at or below 50% percent of the poverty line, which is just over $40,000 per year for an individual today

Medicaid has restricted eligibility requirements to children whose parent's income is less than $20,000 year

Medicaid has expanded eligibility to adults with incomes at or below 138 percent of the poverty line, which is just over $16,000 per year for an individual today

Medicaid has expanded coverage to older adults (55+ years) regardless of pre-existing conditions

Question 9

1 / 1 pts

What is the health insurance marketplace?

A service that helps people shop for and enroll in affordable health insurance from various providers

The governing body of health insurance that enacts penalties for people who don't have insurance

A place for low income individuals to obtain health insurance

A place for seniors to obtain health insurance

Question 10

4 / 4 pts

Identify the changes under the Affordable Care Act among the following groups:

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• Required to pay more taxes
• Most Americans (except exempt) are required to obtain health insurance, or get fined
• Can not be charged higher premiums
• Covered on parent's health insurance until the age of 26

Individual mandate

            Most Americans (except exempt) are required to obtain health insurance, or get fined           

Women

            Can not be charged higher premiums           

Young people

            Covered on parent's health insurance until the age of 26           

Wealthy

            Required to pay more taxes           

PartialQuestion 11

11 / 14 pts

Identify the types of healthcare services provided by the healthcare practitioners:

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• Children
• General health
• Skin
• Independent healthcare providers who provide nontraditional forms of healthcare
• Lungs
• Clinical professionals who hold a medical degrees, but do not have an MD or MO degree
• Healthcare workers who focus on preventative heath in different forums (health departments, schools, etc.)
• Feet
• X-ray
• Independent healthcare providers whose remedies produce effects different from those of the disease, and emphasize the interrelationships of the body's systems
• Brain
• Seniors
• Female health
• Ears, nose and throat

Allopathic and Osteopathic providers

            General health           

Gynecologist

            Female health           

Neurologist

            Brain           

Nonallopathic providers

            Independent healthcare providers whose remedies produce effects different from those of the disease, and emphasize the interrelationships of the body's systems           

Public health professionals

            Healthcare workers who focus on preventative heath in different forums (health departments, schools, etc.)           

Pediatrician

            Children           

Pulmonologist

            Lungs           

Otolaryngologist

            Ear, Nose and Throat           

Radiologist

            X-Ray           

Family Practitioner

            Independent healthcare providers whose remedies produce effects different from those of the disease, and emphasize the interrelationships of the body's systems           

Dermatologist

            Skin           

Podiatrist

            Feet           

Gerentologist

            Seniors           

Nurse

            Clinical professionals who hold a medical degrees, but do not have an MD or MO degree           

Question 12

1 / 1 pts

Your rights as a patient include all of the following EXCEPT:

The right to be fully informed of what is being planned for your care

Knowing whether or not the treatment you are receiving is standard or experimental

The right to refuse treatment, but once you consent to receiving it, you can not change or cease treatment at any time

The right to confidentiality of your health care records

The right to receive adequate health care and treated with respect and dignity

PartialQuestion 13

2 / 4 pts

Identify prescription drugs versus Over the Counter Drugs (OTC) based on the descriptions (Choose answers in alphabetical order. For example, Administered under professional supervision should be chosen first for either prescription or OTC)

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• Recommended for common conditions, as well as self-diagnosis and self-treatment
• Contains a standard label with the purpose, active ingredients, uses, warnings and directions
• Administered under professional supervision to treat illnesses and diseases
• Contains a label with a particular person's name, and should only be responsibly taken by that person

Prescription Drugs

            Administered under professional supervision to treat illnesses and diseases           

Over the Counter

            Recommended for common conditions, as well as self-diagnosis and self-treatment           

Prescription Drugs

            Contains a label with a particular person's name, and should only be responsibly taken by that person           

Over the Counter

            Contains a standard label with the purpose, active ingredients, uses, warnings and directions           

PartialQuestion 14

1 / 3 pts

Distinguish the various types of insurance:

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• An option that enables enrollees to be at least partially reimbursed for selecting a healthcare provider outside of the plan
• Groups that supply pre-paid comprehensive healthcare with an emphasis on prevention
• Organization that buys fixed-rate health services form providers and sells them to consumers

Preferred Provider Organization (PPOs)

            Groups that supply pre-paid comprehensive healthcare with an emphasis on prevention           

Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)

            Organization that buys fixed-rate health services form providers and sells them to consumers           

Point of Service Options (POS)

            An option that enables enrollees to be at least partially reimbursed for selecting a healthcare provider outside of the plan           

Question 15

1 / 1 pts

Maximizing care while minimizing costs includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Practice healthy lifestyle behaviors to preserve the quality and quantity of your life

Try the least expensive healthcare options first

Read your policy to understand your coverage and check your bill for accuracy

Use the emergency room first for illness and disease

Avoid unnecessary risks to minimize unintentional injuries

Do your research and choose an insurance plan that provides comprehensive healthcare that you can afford

You have implemented an inter-professional plan for Joe to remain in his home with his family maintaining a rotating caregiver role. During a home visit you notice bruises on Joe’s face and arms in varying degrees of healing. Joe also is unshaven and smells of urine. When you question the family member caring for Joe that day, they state that Joe has had a ‘rough week’ and is doing fine.

What next step should you take and why? Who should be contacted? What legal responsibility do you have as a RN in this situation?

Write the short answers

Q 1. Identify trends in the use of the Internet for healthcare information.

Q 2. Discuss why patient–provider online communications remain relatively uncommon.

Q 3. List three ethical concerns governing provider advice giving over the Internet.

Q 4. Discuss how patients turn to the Internet for information because they are inadequately informed in encounters with their provider.

Describe the feedback you gave and received following any task

include :

1. Who did you share feedback with?

2. What was the nature of your relationship?

3. What feedback were you given? How did this feedback help you?

4. What feedback did you give in return? Describe how you think that feedback was useful to them?

A 75-year-old female client on home health care for post op hip replacement. You are the visiting nurse and you find the patient somulent and only responding to stimulus with nodding. Patient was given prescription for 10 mg oxycodone q4-6 hours. Patient has been out of the hospital for three days. Upon examining the bottle, it is found that 20 tablets were prescribed and only two tablets remain.

a. What measures should the nurse take to ensure an accurate assessment of pain in the client?

b. What patient and family or caregiver education is appropriate in this case? (Be prepared to act as the nurse in a nurse-patient real life scenario.)

For this discussion, examine the practice act for Texas. In your initial post, include a summary of one area in the nurse practice act and include an association you could use to examine the standards of practice. In your response to your peers, discuss the similarities and differences you see in different states.

A 38 y.o. mother is in active labor. On assessment, the nurse obtains the following data: BP 200/140; T 98.9, P 90, R 21, urine protein 3+. The mother complains of dizziness and blurred vision.

1. Based on these findings, which data will the nurse report to the RN? Include rationales.

2. What condition(s) do you suspect this woman is developing?

3. What orders will you anticipate the physician ordering? Include rationales.

4. What nursing interventions will your incorporate into your plan of care? Include rationales.

This question is based on a scenario. A sportsperson who is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was five years old. The doctor put him on a conventional insulin regimen to maintain blood sugar. But now he wants to play in the soccer team and is pretty healthy except he is only on insulin. He requested his doctor to convert to intensive insulin therapy. His blood sugar is well maintained, diet is perfect, and knowing how to give insulin. But mom is concerned with sending him away. My question is how a nurse should advise both son and mom based on the given information.

John Lyons has undergone treatment for kidney stones three times in the last year. Today he calls this primary provider with complaints of acute, excruciating, colicky, pain that radiates down the thigh toward the genitalia. The pain started last night, and has become progressively more severe. He also complains of the urge to void but has little urine output, and it is blood tinged. Due to the pain, he has not taken any fluids or food in 24 hours. Mr. Lyons undergoes lithotripsy, and analysis of stone fragments to reveal calcium stones. (Learning Objective 6)

1. Mr. Lyons’ symptoms are most indicative of stones in what area of the renal system?

Mr. Lyons has the following orders:

• Morphine sulfate, 2 mg IVP every 2 hours as needed for severe pain
• Ibuprofen, 600 mg every 6 hours
• Normal saline at 200 mL/hr

b. Discuss the rationales for the above orders?

c. Based on the calcium composition of the stone, what dietary teaching should the nurse include in Mr. Lyons’ plan of care?