True or False: The plan of care is developed by the clinician and the physician on the first visit and includes all care to be provided.

True or False: The plan of care will never change.

The aide care plan includes all of the following except _____________.

The aide should notify the clinician if _________________.

True or False: The aide supervisory visit is done every month by the nursing supervisor.

True or False: The aide should provide whatever care the patient requests, regardless of what the care plan says.

Alice, a home health aide, is in a patient’s home and notices that the patient’s daily medication planner has pills still in the compartments for the prior two days. What should Alice do?

Alice is helping a patient prepare for a bed bath. The patient tells Alice that the therapist was there yesterday and said that he, the patient, could take a shower. What should Alice do?

The aide care plan states to take the patient’s vital signs every day and notify the nurse if the pulse is higher than 100, blood pressure is above 180/90, respiration is higher than 24, or temperature is higher than 100 degrees. Alice takes her patient’s vital signs and records the following:

Temperature 98.3 degrees

Respiration: 20

Pulse: 110

Blood Pressure 170/60

What should Alice do next?

The supervisory visit is completed by the clinician and includes all of the following except ____________.