Community and Public Health Nursing:
Evidence for Practice, 5th Edition (DeMarco),
Chapters 1 - 25 | All Chapters
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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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reported functional status indicator and thenreviewing it with the client
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assisted robotic surgicaltechniques, which the hospital recently implemen
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C) Recording a client's signs and symptoms in an electronic health record
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D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client while the client is in theho
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centered care considers cultural traditions, personal preferences, values, families, and lifes
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tyles. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring health become
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s the client's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare providers make better dec
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isions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a series
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of tools that empower clients and assist providers in achieving desired outcomes, includin
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g client-reported functional status indicators. Computer-
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assisted robotic surgical techniques, electronic health records, andcontinuous glucose mon
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itoring in the hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but they do not help th
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e client become a more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not good exampl
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es 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 diabetes mell
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itus. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this client's health?(Select
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edback:
The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education, literacy,
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o home and work environment, support networks, gender, culture, and availability of healt
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h services are the social determinants of health. These conditions have an impact on the e
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xtent to which a person or community possesses the physical, social, and personal resourc
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es necessary to attain and maintain health. A medical erroron the part of the client's prima
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ry care provider or nurse would not constitute a social determinant of the client's health.
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