Exam 24: Communicating for Continuity of Care

Which statement best describes continuity of care (COC)?

A patient asks a nurse to explain the Affordable Care Act. When explaining it to the patient, the nurse provides the patient with what information?

A home health nurse visits a patient and his spouse once per week to change the patient's wound dressing. By visiting the patient and his spouse weekly, the nurse develops a sense of clinical responsibility and an accumulated knowledge of the patient and spouse's personal and medical circumstances. This situation describes which component of continuity of care (COC)?

What primary difference will a nurse employed as a staff nurse for 20 years find when comparing patient discharge scenarios over those years?

The nurse is teaching at a community center about how the focus on care provision has shifted from the hospital to the community and a public health focus. The nurse teaches the community members that health care systems organized around acute, episodic care no longer suffice as a primary service model due to the complexity of contemporary health care, which requires a different care process to match new health realities. The nurse lists which of the following reasons for this?

A staff nurse educates a nursing student about collaborative health care teams. The staff nurse recognizes that additional teaching is warranted when the nursing student lists which of the following as a characteristic of a collaborative health care team?

Which characteristic is a key element of relational continuity with patients and with the entire team?

The nurse manager conducting an in-service for staff nurses about the importance of patient-centered care will discuss which characteristics?

To build relational continuity with each patient, the nurse implements what intervention?

The nurse is working within an interdisciplinary team. The nurse recognizes that interdisciplinary teams are characterized by what factor?

A nursing instructor educates a class of student nurses about informational continuity. The nursing instructor lists which of the following as characteristics of informational continuity?

The nurse is caring for a patient with a chronic health condition. The nurse recognizes that to achieve high-quality health outcomes for this patient, which factor is the priority?

When working on a hospital unit, the nurse should begin the discharge planning process at which time?

The nurse demonstrates understanding of continuity of care (COC) when doing which of the following? (Select all that apply)

The nurse recognizes that a characteristic of effective team collaboration includes which of the following?

A nursing instructor is educating a student nurse about bridging the gap between diminishing financial support for chronic care and multifaceted health care demands that can be long lasting. The instructor recognizes that further teaching is warranted when the student nurse lists which of the following as an indispensable means for accomplishing this?

Which statement should the nurse manager cite as a key feature of the medical home in primary care model? (Select all that apply)

The nurse is caring for a patient who will be transferred from the hospital unit to an acute rehabilitation facility. To ensure continuity of care for the patient, the nurse should engage in what action?