A 73-year-old group home resident with end-stage renal disease receives peritoneal dialysis from a nurse on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Each dialysis session lasts three hours. Once a week (on Friday), the nurse also assists the patient with meals, cleaning, and grocery shopping.

How many sessions of peritoneal dialysis should the nurse charge for in a 30-day month if the 1st of the month is a Monday?

a) 12 sessions of peritoneal dialysis
b) 13 sessions of peritoneal dialysis
c) 10 sessions of peritoneal dialysis
d) 15 sessions of peritoneal dialysis

a) 12 sessions of peritoneal dialysis The nurse should charge for 14 sessions of peritoneal dialysis over a 30-day month that starts on a Monday, plus an additional 5 days for the extra services provided on Fridays.

Explanation:

The question involves calculating the number of peritoneal dialysis sessions a nurse provides to a group home resident over a 30-day month, given that the 1st of the month landed on a Monday and dialysis occurs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Since the first day of the month is a Monday, there will be five weeks where dialysis will be conducted on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and one week at the end of the 30-day cycle where dialysis will only occur on Monday and Wednesday. This adds up to:

(3 sessions/week) x (4 full weeks) = 12 sessions
(2 sessions) for the partial week

Therefore, there would be a total of 14 sessions of dialysis in a 30-day month that begins on a Monday: 12 from the full weeks and 2 from the partial week.

When including the additional services the nurse provides on Fridays, there will be an additional 5 days of these services throughout the month.