You have been asked to organize a patient and family education program as part of a discharge plan for a patient requiring home ventilatory support
Which of the following methods would be best for training the family in the operation of the ventilator chosen?
a. Put the patient on the selected device while still hospitalized.
b. Set up and review the ventilator after the patient gets home.
c. Take the family into a back room and show them a ventilator.
d. Give the family the operating manual for the ventilator.
ANS: A
Ideally, the patient should have a trial period on the actual home ventilator before discharge.
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