Which term is used to describe the obligation to promote a patient's being? A) Nonmaleficence B) Beneficence C) Autonomy D) Standard of care - answer-B) Beneficence Nonmaleficence is the obligation to minimize or prevent harm. The obligation to pr

Which term is used to describe the obligation to promote a patient's being? A) Nonmaleficence B) Beneficence C) Autonomy D) Standard of care - answer-B) Beneficence Nonmaleficence is the obligation to minimize or prevent harm. The obligation to promote a patient's well-being is known as beneficence. Autonomy is the patient's right to be self-governing. The standard of care is a benchmarking level of practice that a nurse provides. Nurses use social media technology responsibly when practising the six P's for Social Media use. These are: (select those that apply) A) Professionalism B) Privacy C) Pause D) Practice E) Public - answer-A, B, C The six P's of social media use are:· professionalism (act professionally at all times)· positive: keep posts positive· patient/person free: keep posts patient or person free· protect: protect your professionalism, reputation and yourself· privacy: keep personal and professional life separate; respect the privacy of others· pause: before you post; consider the implications and avoid posting in haste or anger The social determinant of health that had the greatest influence on health status and health behaviours is: A) Culture B) Education and literacy C) Income and Social Status D) Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills E) Gender - answer-C) Income and Social Status Income and social status has the greatest influence on health status and behaviours and the use of health care services. Lower-income Canadians have poorer health than that of higher-income Canadians regardless of age, gender, culture, race, or residence. A person's culture may influence his or her health choices. Higher education is associated with improving an individual's state of health and improves problem-solving capacity and access to health information. Personal health practices and coping skills affect how people manage their health and health challenges. A person's gender may affect his or her role in society, personal attitudes and beliefs, and the screening and care of chronic disease states. Which of the following are Millennium Development Goals? Select all that apply: A) Environmental Sustainability B) Gender Equality C) Infant Health Improvements D) Universal Secondary Education E) Eliminate extreme hunger and poverty - answer-A, B, D Ensuring environmental sustainability, promoting gender equality and empowering women, and eradicating extreme poverty and hunger are all Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as defined by the United Nations. The MDGs also include improving maternal health and achieving universal primary education; reducing child mortality; combatting HIV/AIDs, malaria, and other diseases; and developing a global partnership for development. The Nurse is aware that avoiding the use of abbreviation acronyms, and symbols can reduce the risk of medication administration errors. The institure of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) lists those to avoid as: Select all that apply A) OD B) D/C C) BID D) PO E) IU - answer-A, B, D OD can be mistaken as right eye (OD = oculus dexter); use the word daily. D/C can be interpreted as "discontinue use of medication"; use the word discharge; IU can be mistaken for "IV" (intravenous) or the number 10 (ten); use the words international unit. BID and PO are not included on the ISMP "Do Not Use" list. A mother's household consists of her husband, his mother, and another child. She is living in a/an: A) extended family B) lone-parent family C) married-blended family D) common-law family. - answer-A) Extended Family An extended family includes blood relatives living with the nuclear family. Both parents and grandparents are living in this extended family. An unmarried biological or adoptive parent who may or may not be living with other adults constitutes a lone-parent family. Married-blended refers to unrelated families joined after divorce. An unmarried couple makes up a common-law family. What is descriptive of the family systems theory? A) The family is viewed as the sum of individual members. B) When the family system is disrupted, change can occur at any point in the system. C) Change in one family member cannot create change in other members. D) Individual family members are readily identified as the source of a problem. - answer-B. When the family system is disrupted, change can occur at any point in the system. Although the family is the sum of the individual members, the family systems theory is a theory of human behaviour and focuses on the reciprocal effect of interactions that can occur. The family systems theory describes an interactional model. A change in one member will affect other family members. The interactions are considered to be the problem, not the individual family members. The term used to describe a group that sustains its own characteristics while existing within a larger cultural system is called: A) subculture. B) cultural relativism. C) acculturation. D) ethnocentrism. - answer-A) subculture. A subculture is an ethnic or other organized group that retains its traditions and health and social practices while existing within a larger cultural system. Cultural relativism refers to learning about and applying the standards of another person's culture to activities within that culture. Acculturation refers to changes that occur within one group or among several groups when people from different cultures come in contact with one another. Ethnocentrism is a belief in the rightness of one's culture's way of doing things.