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,TEST BANK: Community and Public Health Nursing 4th Edition DeMarco & Walsh
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Contents:
Chapter 1: Public Health Nursing: Present, Past, and Futur
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eChapter 2: Public Health Systems
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Chapter 3: Health Policy, Politics, and Reform Cha
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pter 4: Global Health: A Community Perspective
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Chapter 5: Frameworks for Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Risk Reductio
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nChapter 6: Epidemiology: The Science of Prevention
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Chapter 7: Describing Health Conditions: Understanding and Using Rate
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sChapter 8: Gathering Evidence for Public Health Practice
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Chapter 9: Planning for Community Change
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Chapter 10: Cultural Competence: Awareness, Sensitivity, and Respec
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tChapter 11: Community Assessment
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Chapter 12: Care Management, Case Management, and Home Healthcar
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eChapter 13: Family Assessment
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Chapter 14: Risk of Infectious and Communicable Disease
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sChapter 15: Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Chapter 16: Violence and Abus
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eChapter 17: Substance Use
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Chapter 18: Underserved Population
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sChapter 19: Environmental Health
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Chapter 20: Community Preparedness: Disaster and Terroris
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mChapter 21: Community Mental Health
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Chapter 22: School Health
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Chapter 23: Faith- +s +s




Oriented Communities and Health Ministries in Faith Communities Chapter 24: Pallia
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tive and End-of-Life Care
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Chapter 25: Occupational Health Nursing
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing: Present, Past, and Future 1
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1. A nurse is striving to practice patient-
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centered care at a hospital. Which action bestexemplifies providing patient-
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centered care?
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A) Having a client complete a self- +s +s +s +s +s


reported functional status indicator and thenreviewing it with the client
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B) Explaining to a client the benefits of computer- +s +s +s +s +s +s +s


assisted robotic surgicaltechniques, which the hospital recently implem e
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D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client while the client is in t +s +s +s +s +s +s +s +s +s +s +s +s


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Ans: A +s


Feedback:
Patient-
centered care considers cultural traditions, personal preferences, values, families, and
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lifestyles. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring health
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be comes the client's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare providers m
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ake better decisions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has d
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evelopeda series of tools that empower clients and assist providers in achieving desir
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ed outcom es, including client-reported functional status indicators. Computer-
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assisted robotic surgical techniques, electronic health records, andcontinuous glucose m
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onitoring in the hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but they do not
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help the client become a more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not g
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ood e xamples of patient-centered care.
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 2
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2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2 diabet
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es mellitus. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this client's he
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alth?(Select all that apply.)
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Ans: A, B, D, E Feedbac+s +s +s +s +s s+


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The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education, li
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teracy, home and work environment, support networks, gender, culture, and availab
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ility of health services are the social determinants of health. These conditions have
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an impact on the extent to which a person or community possesses the physical, so
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cial, and personal resources necessary to attain and maintain health. A medical error
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on the partof the client's primary care provider or nurse would not constitute a soci
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al determinant of the client's health.
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3. A
1- nurse successfully persuades an obese client to perform a weekly weigh-
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in at homeusing a digital scale and record the weight in a log. This strategy is an exa
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mple of:
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D) Evidence-
based nursingAns:
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C Feedback:
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o ugh education and lifestyle changes. In this case, the client makes a positive changei
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n li festyle by monitoring body weight weekly. Telehealth is the use of electronic inf
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ormation and telecommunications technologies to support long-
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distance clinical healthcare, client and professional health-
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related education, public health, and health administration. Health information techn
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ol ogy (HIT) is defined as the comprehensive management of health information and
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its exchange between consumers, providers, government, and insurers in a secure m
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anner. Evidence- +s


based nursing is the integrationof the best evidence available with clinical expertise
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an d the values of the client to increase the quality of care.
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 4
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4. A nurse performs a variety of tasks as part of the nurse's position at a hospital. Whi
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chtask best exemplifies public health?
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A) Reading current nursing journals and integrating the latest research into dail
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D) Facilitating a community- +s +s


wide smoking cessation program one month out of theyear
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Feedback:
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people can be healthy. A community-
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t hat it involves the collective effort of societyto improve the health of its members.
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Reading and applying the latest nursing research is an example of evidence-
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based nursing. Instructing a client on how to best care for a suture site at home is an
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example of personal responsibility for health, but it is not focused on the health of the
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greater community. Participating in a videoconference call with a client who lives in
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a remot e area is an example of patient-
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