Client & Care Planning Flashcards
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A care manager is working with a terminally ill client who wants to remain at home but whose family insists on aggressive hospital-based treatment. How should the care manager proceed?
Answer: Facilitate a family meeting to align care with the client's documented wishes and values
The care manager should facilitate communication to align care with the client's documented preferences, as a competent client's wishes take precedence over family preferences.
Which standardized screening tool is most commonly used in care management to assess for depression in older adults?
Answer: Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is specifically validated for use with older adults and is one of the most widely used tools for depression screening in this population.
A care manager identifies that a client has been repeatedly admitted to the hospital for the same condition. Which care planning strategy is most appropriate to address this pattern?
Answer: Develop a disease-specific self-management education and monitoring plan to reduce exacerbations
Repeated hospitalizations for the same condition indicate a need for targeted self-management education and proactive monitoring to prevent exacerbations and reduce avoidable admissions.
In interdisciplinary care planning, what is the care manager's primary role when working with a team that includes physicians, social workers, and therapists?
Answer: To coordinate communication, integrate input from all disciplines, and ensure the plan reflects the client's holistic needs
The care manager serves as the integrating hub of the interdisciplinary team, coordinating communication and ensuring that all perspectives are incorporated into a cohesive client-centered plan.
When measuring outcomes of a care plan intervention, which type of measure most directly reflects the client's own perspective on improvement?
Answer: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) capture the client's own assessment of their health, function, and quality of life, making them the most direct measure of the client's perspective.
A care plan for a client with diabetes includes the goal of 'client will demonstrate correct insulin injection technique.' This type of goal is best classified as a:
Answer: Short-term knowledge/skill acquisition goal
Goals focused on the client learning or demonstrating a specific skill are classified as knowledge or skill acquisition goals, typically short-term in nature.
Which of the following situations would most likely require a care manager to break client confidentiality without consent?
Answer: A client discloses a plan to harm themselves or another person
Duty to warn/protect laws require care managers to breach confidentiality when a client discloses a credible threat of imminent harm to self or others.