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,Community and Public Health Nursing: Evidence for Practice, 4th Edition (DeMarco), Chapters 1 - 25
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Public Health Nursing
,1. A nurse is striving to practice patient-centered care at a hospital. Which
action bestexemplifies providing patient-centered care?
A) Having a client complete a self-reported functional status indicator
and thenreviewing it with the client
B) Explaining to a client the benefits of computer-assisted robotic
surgicaltechniques, which the hospital recently implemented
C) Recording a client's signs and symptoms in an electronic health record
D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client while the client is
in thehospital
ANSWER: A
Feedback:
Patient-centered care considers cultural traditions, personal preferences, values,
families, and lifestyles. Clients become active participants in their own care, and
monitoring health becomes the client's responsibility. To help clients and their
healthcare providers make better decisions, the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a series of tools that empower clients and
assist providers in achieving desired outcomes, including client-reported
functional status indicators. Computer-assisted robotic surgical techniques,
electronic health records, andcontinuous glucose monitoring in the hospital are
all technological advances in healthcare, but they do not help the client become a
more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not good examples of
patient-centered care.
Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 2
2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2
diabetes mellitus. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this
client's health?(Select all that apply.)
A) Household income of $23,000 per year
B) Reading level of a third grader
C) Medication ineffective due to error in prescription
D) Originally from Sudan
E) No family in the
areaANSWER: A, B, D, E
Feedback:
, The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education,
literacy, home and work environment, support networks, gender, culture, and
availability of health services are the social determinants of health. These
conditions have an impact on the extent to which a person or community
possesses the physical, social, and personal resources necessary to attain and
maintain health. A medical erroron the part of the client's primary care provider
or nurse would not constitute a social determinant of the client's health.