Goals of psychiatric home care include all of the following except
1. Monitoring medication compliance, effectiveness, and side effects.
2. Promoting the client's adjustment to the community and home.
3. Providing ongoing individual counseling and psychotherapy.
4. Providing in-home respite services to the client's family.
5. Reducing the need for hospitalization or rehospitalization of clients in psychological crisis.
Question 2
Maria Vasquez is a home health nurse specializing in care of high-risk prenatal clients. Which of the following clients would probably not be a candidate for Maria?
1. Gretchen Mitchell, who is 26 weeks and on strict bed rest with continual uterine monitoring because of premature labor
2. Hannah Peters, who is 22 weeks and carrying twins and needs monthly ultrasound evaluation of fetal growth
3. Irene Johnson, who is 30 weeks and has been discharged with preeclampsia but will be readmitted for delivery in 2 or 3 weeks
4. Janice Wilson, who is 14 weeks' gestation and is seriously dehydrated and losing weight following several weeks of hyperemesis
Awareness of cultural and religious norms and customs will help you deliver appropriate nursing care
The nurse cares for the postop client in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).
A model of anxiety in which stressful events or a changing mental condition can produce unfavorable
Survivorship Care Plan
Building competency in patient centered care
Instilling Ear Medication