A nurse is using a critical path when providing care for a ...

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A nurse is using a critical path when providing care for a client. Which of the following most likely describes the situation that the nurse is in?
 
  a. Implementing the six rights of case management
  b. Demonstrating competencies required for practicing case management
  c. Attempting to achieve a measurable out-come for a specific client
  d. Effectively managing conflict resolution

Question 2

A nurse is assisting clients to improve their health status. Which of the following types of man-agement is being used by the nurse?
 
  a. Care management
  b. Case management
  c. Disease management
  d. Demand management

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
A critical path is a case management tool used to achieve a measurable outcome for a specific client case. The critical path details the essential and sequential activities in care, so that the ex-pected progress of the client was known at a point in time. A critical path does not address the six rights of case management or demonstrate the competencies required for practicing case management. A critical path is not used for conflict resolution.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Demand management seeks to control use by providing clients with correct information and ed-ucation strategies to make healthy choices, to use healthy and health-seeking behaviors to im-prove their health status, and to make fewer demands on the health care system. Care manage-ment is an enduring process in which a manager establishes systems and monitors the health sta-tus, resources, and outcomes for a targeted aggregate of the population. Case management is de-fined as a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evalua-tion, and advocacy for options and services to facilitate an individual's and family's comprehen-sive health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality cost-effective outcomes. Disease management constitutes systematic activities to coordinate health care interventions and communications for populations with disease conditions in which client self-care efforts are significant.