DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The following are the Discussion Questions found at the end of this chapter along with answers to those questions.
Q 1. What is a nursing facility? How does the term "nursing home" relate to it?
Q 2. How did nursing facilities develop?
Q 3. What types of services are provided by nursing facilities? Who uses them?
Q 4. How are nursing facilities financed?
Q 5. What regulations govern the operation of nursing facilities? Who does the regulating?
Q 6. What types of professional and paraprofessional staff work in nursing facilities?
Q 7. What are special care units (SCUs) in nursing facilities? Why do they exist?
Q 8. What are some of the ethical issues faced in nursing facilities?
Q 9. What trends are most likely to affect the operation of nursing facilities in the future?
In reference to the case at the end of this chapter, consider the following:
Q 1. Should Mary's family members authorize the double hip replacement?
Q 2. What factors should be considered?
Q 3. Who else, if anyone, should be consulted?
Q 4. What are the implications of that decision on the parties involved: Mary, her children, the facility staff?
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