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1. nurse practitioner prescriptive authority is the state board of nursing for each state
regulated by
2. the benefits to the patient of having an nurses care for the patient from a holistic
advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) approach and include the patient in deci-
prescriber include sion making regarding their care
3. clinical judgment in prescribing includes factoring in the cost to the patient of the
medication prescribed
4. criteria for choosing an effective drug for a consulting nationally recognized guide-
disorder include lines for disease management
5. nurse practitioner practice may thrive under the demonstrated ability of nurse practi-
health-care reform because of tioners to control costs and improve pa-
tient outcomes
6. cultural factors that must be taken into ac- all of the above
count when prescribing include
7. ethnic differences have been found in drug hepatic metabolism
8. the national standards of culturally and lin- African Americans are
guistically appropriate services are required attributed to
to be implemented in all
9. according to the national standards of cul-
turally and linguistically appropriate ser-
vices, an interpreter for health care
10. according to the U.S. office of minori-
ty health, poor health outcomes among
, organizations that receive federal funds
must be a professionally trained medicalinterpreter
discrimination, cultural barriers, and lackof access to health care
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