TEST BANK Community and Public Health Nursing: Evidence for Practice, 4th Edition (DeMarco), Chapters 1 - 25 | All Chapters with Correct Answers

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Community and Public Health Nursing:
Evidence for Practice, 4th 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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A) Having a client complete a self- to to to to to




reported functional status indicator and thenreviewing it with the client
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B) Explaining to a client the benefits of computer- to to to to to to to




assisted robotic surgicaltechniques, which the hospital recently implemente
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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 thehos
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pital
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Feedback:
Patient-
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es. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring health becomes the
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client's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare providers make better decisions, t
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he Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a series of tools that
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to empower clients and assist providers in achieving desired outcomes, including client-
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reported functional status indicators. Computer-
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assisted robotic surgical techniques, electronic health records, andcontinuous glucose monito
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ring in the hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but they do not help the clien
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t become a more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not good examples of patie
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nt-centered care. to




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2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2 diabetes mellitu
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s. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this client's health?(Select all th
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A) Household income of $23,000 per year to to to to to




B) Reading level of a third grader to to to to to




C) Medication ineffective due to error in prescription to to to to to to




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E) No family in the areaA to to to to to




NS: A, B, D, E Feedback
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The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education, literacy, ho
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me and work environment, support networks, gender, culture, and availability of health serv
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ices are the social determinants of health. These conditions have an impact on the extent to
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which a person or community possesses the physical, social, and personal resources necessar
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y to attain and maintain health. A medical erroron the part of the client's primary care provid
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er or nurse would not constitute a social determinant of the client's health.
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3. A nurse successfully persuades an obese client to perform a weekly weigh-
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in at homeusing a digital scale and record the weight in a log. This strategy is an example of
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C) Personal responsibility for health to to to




D) Evidence-
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Feedback:
Personal responsibility for health involves active participation in one's own health through e
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ducation and lifestyle changes. In this case, the client makes a positive changein lifestyle by
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monitoring body weight weekly. Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecom
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munications technologies to support long- to to to to




distance clinical healthcare, client and professional health-
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related education, public health, and health administration. Health information technology (
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HIT) is defined as the comprehensive management of health information and its exchange b
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etween consumers, providers, government, and insurers in a secure manner. Evidence-
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based nursing is the integrationof the best evidence available with clinical expertise and the v
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