Author Question: Nurses working in home health care must have all of the following skills and abilities. Which of ... (Read 94 times)

Yi-Chen · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

Nurses working in home health care must have all of the following skills and abilities. Which of these forms the foundation for all others?

a. ability to conduct ongoing client and family teaching
b. ability to work with the family to meet the client's needs
c. excellent assessment skills and a keen ability to identify problems
d. excellent nursing skills and creativity

Question 2

The needs of a client who is a homeless, elderly woman with no means of support would probably be at which level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

a. love and belonging c. safety and security
b. physiologic needs d. self-actualization

chem1s3 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
Home health care may provide intravenous therapy, ventilator care, parenteral nutrition, chemotherapy, wound care, and special care for diabetes and cardiac or respiratory problems. A registered nurse calls on the client at certain intervals to assess the client's condition, supervise the work of LP/VNs and unlicensed workers, and deliver skilled nursing care. The LP/VN's responsibilities vary with the agency, but all nurses working in home care must have excellent assessment skills and the ability to identify actual and potential problems. Teaching the client and the family is a major responsibility for the home health nurse. Clients and families must be taught regarding the disease process, medications, special skills required, how to document signs and symptoms, and how and when to contact the home health care nurse, the physician, and emergency services.

Answer to Question 2

B
The lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy, physiologic needs, including food, water, elimination, oxygen, activity, sleep, and sex, must be met before higher-level needs can be achieved. For example, a person who has difficulty breathing, focuses attention on obtaining oxygen and is not motivated to read a book or engage in social conversation.