All of the following criteria must be met for a client to be eligible for home health services under Medicare except
1. The client must be homebound.
2. The client must need skilled nursing care, physical therapy, or speech therapy.
3. The client must be indigent.
4. The client's physician must certify the need for care.
Question 2
Since the mid-1960s, home health care has evolved from being
1. A function of public health departments and visiting nurse associations to being provided by hospital-based agencies and proprietary institutions.
2. Largely dependent on nonnurse health care practitioners to being composed of skilled nursing care.
3. Provided mostly by proprietary agencies to being provided by nonprofit agencies.
4. The responsibility of family members to being the responsibility of insurers.
Examples of Health Care Plans
A partnership between the patient and the health care provider.
Using small, circular strokes, exfoliate the client’s neck and back.
Measuring the client’s weight with a standard platform scale
Client positioned and draped