AE3 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What are qualifications/stipulations for SAR?(for medicare coverage) - Correct Answers ✅- minimum 3- day qualifying stay in hospital
- periodic recertification (minimum data set)
- 100 days per year covered max
What is a minimum data set? - Correct Answers ✅comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment done in skilled nursing facility to validate need for care, provide data for reimbursement, maintain assessment, and assess care plan Is community nursing care usually covered by medicare? - Correct Answers ✅Yes, as long as under direction of a physician (this is visiting nurses) What is the get up and go test? - Correct Answers ✅It's where a patient sits on a chair w/o arm rest, gets up, walks a few steps, turns around and sits back down Should take 15 seconds or less What is function-focused care (FFC)? - Correct Answers ✅care team engages pt in functional and physical activities, and includes them in routine care 1 / 3
AE3 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)
Ex: questioning bedrest, encourage self-care of hygiene, use
toilet when possible, encourage independence in feeding, keep the mind active, PT/OT...Decrease in musculature of eyes is normal in the aging process. this can lead to what two conditions? - Correct Answers ✅ectropion (eyelid sags outwards) entropion (eyelid turns inwards - can be irritating) *Can have sx to fix What naturally happens to the musculature of the iris with old age? What are the implications? - Correct Answers ✅weaker musculature results in smaller pupil size pt needs extra light, gradual change from light to dark, avoid glare What is arcus senilis? - Correct Answers ✅white, grey, or blue ring around cornea d/t fat and Ca deposits-- cosmetic implications only, asymptomatic **naturally happens with old age What is the difference between myopia and hyperopia? - Correct Answers ✅myopia = nearsighted, cannot se in distance 2 / 3
AE3 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) hyperopia = short eyeball, cannot see up close, farsighted What is the Patho of presbyopia? - Correct Answers ✅lens loses flexibility with age difficulty focusing on close objects (need reading glasses/bifocals) Which group is at the highest risk for glaucoma and its complications? - Correct Answers ✅African Americans age 40+ What is normal Intraoccqular pressure (IOP)? - Correct Answers ✅10-21 mm Hg What is the difference between primary open angle and acute
closed angle glaucoma? - Correct Answers ✅Open Angle:
- more common (90%)
- Aqueous humor Outflow disturbance
- slow progression
- often w/out sx (tunnel vision, loss of peripheral vision)
- IOP > 21 mm Hg
Closed Angle:
- Crisis, Critical
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