By Which Standard Is the Right of Access to Emergency Services Gauged

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3. Types of settings?

A person who requires assistance with three or more activities of daily living is best served by the nursing home environment. Assisted living residents may need assistance with two activities. Hospice care centers are for persons who are terminally ill. Elder day care centers provide care to adults who are unable to stay home by themselves, but go home in the evening to be cared for in the home, many times by adult children or other relatives.

1. Which patient incident should be addressed because it is the primary cause of action in lawsuits against long-term care facilities?

2. Resident falls

3. A long-term care resident has limited use of the right side of his body, but is coherent at intervals. If this patient develops decubiti, which factor might the facility plead to prevent liability?

4. Nursing notes reveal that the patient is repositioned frequently, but somehow manages to return to the back-lying position.

4. The resident of a long-term care facility is unable to ambulate without maximal assistance. The patient is restless and frequently attempts to get out of bed. What is the appropriate nursing action?

3. Move the resident to a room near the nursing station for closer observation.

1. The long-term care facility is considering the involuntary discharge of a resident. What should the facility provide the resident prior to making this decision?

2. Social work counseling

1. Which option reflects unintentional physical abuse?

3. The caregiver fails one time to provide necessary medications for the person for whom care is being provided.

2. If a patient develops decubiti ulcer, which factor might be the facility plead to prevent liability?

Regular dressings

Application of wound treatment

Use of nutritional supplements

Use of pressure-reducing devices.