List three other things you would teach. Your hospital discharge planner facilit

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List three other things you would teach. Your hospital discharge planner facilitates J.F.'s transition to home care. During the initial home visit, the home health nurse evaluates J.F.'s IV sits for implementation of the IV therapy program. The nurse interviews the family members to determine their willingness to be caregivers and their level of understanding and enlists the patient's and family's assistance to identify 10 teaching goals. What topics would be included on this list? The home health nurse also writes short- and long-term goals for J.F. and her family. Identify two short-term and three long-term goals. Short-term goals Long-term goals

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13. ANS: Identified teaching goals:

1. Take safe and proper affective medication.

2. Monitor you nutrition clearly which food to take and which food to avoid.

3. Do regularly special exercises and practice speech therapy for rehabilitation process.

4. Maintain personal hygiene by following proper instruction while using wash room.

5. Describe the pain and teach how to manage pain.

6. Provide clear information about community resources what you had.

7. Family members must be informed about patient responsibility.

8. Direct and educate the family members about how to use any medical equipment at home.

9. Tell about psychological positions like possible emotional reaction and its handling.

10. Inform about the patient rights to family members and patient.

Home infusion therapy is allows patient to receive vital fluids, nutrition and medication without inconvenience and cost of hospital confinement. The nurse must teach caregiver how to administer IV at home and provide health education about maintaining IV therapy.

14. ANS: A. Sort term goals:

1. Monitor the diet, the diet must contain high vitamin K and iron intake and low cholesterol.

2. Monitor immunological side effects.

B. Long term goals:

1. Monitor the post treatment infection after the treatment.

2. Check regularly complications like valvular dysfunction, myocardial abscesses and an ambolic phenomenon.

3. Monitor the relapse; endocarditis can relapse after the two months of the clinical effective therapy.

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