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4TH EDITION (DEMARCO), ALL CHAPTERS 1 - 25 |COVERED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ LATEST UPDATE.
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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, 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
ANS >> 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
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, patient-centered care.
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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
area ANS >> 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.
3. A nurse successfully persuades an obese client to perform a weekly
weigh-in at homeusing a digital scale and record the weight in a log.
This strategy is an example of:
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COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING: EVIDENCE FOR PRACTICE,
4TH EDITION (DEMARCO), ALL CHAPTERS 1 - 25 |COVERED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ LATEST UPDATE.
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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, 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
ANS >> 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
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, 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
area ANS >> 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.
3. A nurse successfully persuades an obese client to perform a weekly
weigh-in at homeusing a digital scale and record the weight in a log.
This strategy is an example of:
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