The nurse demonstrates understanding of continuity of care (COC) when doing which of the following?
a. Providing care in an untimely manner
b. Utilizing management plans that are inconsistent
c. Encouraging a longitudinal construct in health care
d. Demonstrating inflexibility when managing the client's care
Question 2A home health nurse visits a client and his spouse once per week to change the client's wound dressing.
By visiting the client and his spouse weekly, the nurse develops a sense of clinical responsibility and an accumulated knowledge of the client and spouse's personal and medical circumstances. This situation describes which component of continuity of care (COC)?
a. Internal continuity
b. Relational continuity
c. Management continuity
d. Informational continuity
Question 3The nurse is caring for a client who will be transferred from the hospital unit to an acute rehabilitation facility. In order to ensure continuity of care for the client, the nurse should
a. manage continuity through a rigid approach.
b. communicate infrequently with the health care team.
c. use a shared management plan when providing health services.
d. prohibit sharing information about the client in order to abide by HIPAA regulations.
Question 4The nurse is caring for a client with a chronic health condition. The nurse recognizes that in order to achieve high-quality health outcomes for this client, which of the following should occur?
a. Clients and families must have consistency of personnel.
b. Clients and families must have irresponsible relationships.
c. Clients and families should be provided with vague information.
d. Ongoing collaborative support from coordinated health services is discouraged.
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