Chapter 1, Problem 10CR

In this setting, patients travel to the facility for physical therapy treatment:

TELEPHONE TRIAGE Scenario: You are the MOA in a busy family practice. The following calls come in to your office. For each situation, respond in the most appropriate manner. How would you handle each call?  If it is for your physician, do you put the call through? Do you take a message? Can you handle the call yourself? Provide a brief explanation for each example.“Hi, this is Karen Olson, my son Ben has a sore throat, can you get the doctor to call in a prescription for antibiotics?”

TELEPHONE TRIAGE Scenario: You are the MOA in a busy family practice. The following calls come in to your office. For each situation, respond in the most appropriate manner. How would you handle each call?  If it is for your physician, do you put the call through? Do you take a message? Can you handle the call yourself? Provide a brief explanation for each example. "Hello, I would like to make an appointment to see the doctor. I am having some chest pain, and find it a bit hard to breathe.”

A patient arrives in the emergency department with multiple traumas from a motor vehicle accident. Describe the priority nursing assessments and interventions in the initial care of this patient.

Why is the admission assessment conducted by a nurse so critical to a patient's care? Please list all the critical components for why this is so important.

TELEPHONE TRIAGE Scenario: You are the MOA in a busy family practice. The following calls come in to your office. For each situation, respond in the most appropriate manner. How would you handle each call?  If it is for your physician, do you put the call through? Do you take a message? Can you handle the call yourself? Provide a brief explanation for each example. “I have been trying to get through to you for over an hour. What is wrong with you people? Do you leave the telephone off the hook? Don’t you realize that there are sick people wanting to get in touch with you? Can’t you afford another telephone line? This is ridiculous!”

Morphine is to be administered intravenously. Discuss the nursing care and observations the Enrolled Nurse needs to provide to the person receiving morphine. (easy and simple)

Are registered nurses who are employed directly by the patient to provide private nursing services are treated as self employed individuals? True or False

Discuss the role that state and local health departments have in health care.Identify the services that are provided by both levels (state and local).